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[Sphalerite]

wait, so if I make a pond, it'll fill up with trout, making a source of food? Cool!

No.  The visual appearance of vermin fish in a source of water is unrelated to what if any fish you will get from fishing from that water.  Ponds will sometimes produce turtles, but as far as I've been able to tell trout and most other fish can only be fished from naturally occurring streams and rivers.

[Acanthus117]

 

At least i have chicken. (no, seriously. I modded in chicken.)

[NW_Kohaku]

Can anyone tell me if they know how pond stocking works?  If I have an underground river I tap, and let the water there flow into cisterns, I assume I can actually fish in those underground water tiles for cave fish (my stagnant pools only give me lizards and turtles, and run out fast).  If I do get fish in them, would it be better to make one huge underground lake, or many smaller ponds?

[BigD145]

if you dig a hole in the desert and fill it with water, you'll get turtles 

A mystery, but true.

If it's a desert, how did you get water?

[Morgus]

As far as I can tell, it's similar to the "make an above ground holding tank, fill it from a brook, and it still had flow despite being an enclosed container so waterwheels work in it" thing. A filled pond area takes whatever attributes of the water source it came from or is nearest to, including biome stats, for fishing purposes.

[NW_Kohaku]

As far as I can tell, it's similar to the "make an above ground holding tank, fill it from a brook, and it still had flow despite being an enclosed container so waterwheels work in it" thing. A filled pond area takes whatever attributes of the water source it came from or is nearest to, including biome stats, for fishing purposes.

So this means that if I divert underground river water into multiple little ponds within my fortress, I will be "fishing from" the same river, depleteing the same stock, even if they are completely seperate? 

What happens if I have a cistern half filled with water from stangant pools that I then fill the rest of the way with cave river water?

[Sphalerite]

What happens if I have a cistern half filled with water from stangant pools that I then fill the rest of the way with cave river water?

I am fairly certain that the source of the water is irrelevent.  What seems to matter is which biome the fished water is physically located in.

[NW_Kohaku]

Then, would an underground river make the entire mountainrange an underground river biome?

[100killer9]

Then, my pool near an underground river not being able to be fished from signifies that the entire river has no cave fish?
Hmm... I'll have to make another pool further away and see what happens.

[Nivim]

 Last time I made a pond it told me "there are no fish in the southern swamps" every time I tried to fish from it...

[NW_Kohaku]

If that's the case, then maybe an underground river's "Biome" is only the 48x48 tile that the natural river passes through?  I'll have to make a safe fishing lake underneath the original river, then.

[Nobbins]

I once had a thriving castle in the middle of a desert. It was physically small, but on an aquifer and next to a brook. So I mine through the aquifer and get stuck at one point. I give up, and return to the castle business. I look at my stocks, and there's a massive amount of fish. I'm making my o,O at my monitor, while seeing a small 3*4 pool full of trout. Then I made my ^,^ face.