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  How Not to Put in a Fish Pond Remember the water trough pond that I posted about? With the old fashioned pump? We put it in my mom's garden for Mother's Day. Yeah...as it turns out, a brand new, galvanized steel water trough emits zinc into the water. And zinc  no es bueno  for fish. We saw that our fish weren't doing well, realized the problem, and yanked them out of there. You try to do something cute... I'm pretty sure this only applies to new tanks, because fish farms raise their fish in water troughs. I've watched many a brood of tadpoles hatch and grow in water troughs. And we found other decorative ponds that were similar. So it must be a case of needing an old trough. Or lining it with something. We talked about lining ours, but didn't. So the fish lived in big plastic tubs for a little while and it was decided to dig in a goldfish pond. I feel sure we did it the least efficient, most troublesome way possible. But it's in! We started with a 135 ga...