I have one in my front garden <3.... very small tho D: !

And maintaining fish would be a lot of trouble xD... yours look great :3!

you could easily have something like guppies in it. the non fancy ones. they would easily live on the mosquito larva. there are also seasonal fish like Killifish which live less than a whole year and leave eggs that will hatch the following spring. they can be quite colourful too.

I adore guppies <3, But i don't know <,<... I feel the water wouldn't be clean enough over time o.o it doesn't really have a filter D:

mmm oh here it is P: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueG5ZqDHC6g sorry for the bad quality vid <,<

that is a seriously awesome little niche you got going on there. I love those little city type gardens like that.

Well the best way to do this would be to get some potted water plants so they will not get sucked into the water pump. say like miniature cat tails http://www.thewatergardenshop.com/mincat.html
or bog lillies http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=767+774+1182&pcatid=1182
or Umbrella plants http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=767+774+806&pcatid=806

They suggest with some of these plants to repot them in gravel so if ti tips over or whatnot it does not foul the water with dirt. this is pretty easy. the plants then not only make the water fountain look even more awesome but also filter the fish wastes. as it is Guppies can tolerate and even thrive in some seriously shitty water. but the plants will help
Also adding red lava rock into the pond gives a large surface area for beneficial bacteria to colonize which will also filter the water. in fact you may wish to use some of that in the repotting of the bog plants

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/......cfm?c=767+774 here is a fairly nice list of awesome plants for in a bog type setting. which is basically submerged pots for you.

I will be getting some normal sized cattails for my own soon. and possibly digging a smaller shallow pond elsewhere in the yard for more bog plants since my own plans went wrong.

Oh man, we totally sell those solar lights in my department. Those exact solar lights. At least the mosaic and the bronze ones.

yeah i bought mine at a walmart but the local ones are out of them.

I think it looks lovely given what you had to work with. Shit, I couldn't even get a feeder goldfish to live a week >_>

some of the feeder goldfish i have are going on 4 and 5 years old

Well there you go :3 I'll stick with four legged animals >.>

get yourself a few minnows from a local bait shop and immigrate them into your pond, nothing fancy, an a cheep way to keep mosquito larva and other flotsam from dirtying up the water. when I lived in Minneapolis, we had some in our rain barrel every summer.

It already has snails and dragonfly larva and goldfish and guppies and two small turtles.