September 1st 04, 02:03 PM
get to the rec.ponds list to ask for more advice
(AppJumper) wrote:
>I'll try to make this as short a story as possible. Years ago my father dug a
>hole in his backyard because it was always wet there, so he thought maybe it
>would be like a little pond. Over the years is was sometimes dry sometimes
>wet. Well, last year my daughter and her boyfriend decided to make it bigger
>and because a lot of scum built up the went to the State Fair and won 2 large
>goldfish (we believe that one, the female, was a Comet and the other, the male,
>was a Shubunkan). Anyway, we did nothing with these fish. We did not even
>feed them, they lived off the pond. The made it thru the winter with no
>problems and everything seemed fine. Well, my father noticed that the pond
>kept loosing water so he kept filling it. We now know that there was at least
>one mole making holes and that may have been the problem. Fourth of July
>weekend was very hot and my father thought he had left the hose on all night to
>fill the pond, but apparently one of the hose valves was closed so the pond did
>not get any water. When my father went down in the afternoon the pond was only
>a large puddle. The adult fish were in the puddle, but dead. He tried to
>bring them back to life, but to no avail. He noticed in the puddle were
>babies, so he filled the pond immediately. Then my daughter came home from
>college in August and decided they needed to enlarge the pond. So they dug
>another hole next to the old one, lined them both and joined them together.
>The small hole is now peanutshaped and is 15' wide at each circle and a total
>length of 30'. Now, my daughter has gone back to school and left us with a lot
>of problems. First of all, when the removed the babies we were able to count
>them and there is way more than we had thought. There are 140 of them! We are
>trying to figure out how to deal with them all. My daughter loves them and has
>even named a bunch of them, she did give 5 to my neighbor, but that was when
>she thought that there were only about 40 of them. One of our biggest problems
>is that we are afraid that there is not enough aeration. The old pond had a
>lot of water flow from runoff, but because we put the liner in this is not true
>anymore. The pond is way too far from the house to install any kind of pump,
>does anybody have any suggestions? Please anything on any subject of caring
>for these fish would be greatly appreciated.
>Thank you,
>Gina
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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(AppJumper) wrote:
>I'll try to make this as short a story as possible. Years ago my father dug a
>hole in his backyard because it was always wet there, so he thought maybe it
>would be like a little pond. Over the years is was sometimes dry sometimes
>wet. Well, last year my daughter and her boyfriend decided to make it bigger
>and because a lot of scum built up the went to the State Fair and won 2 large
>goldfish (we believe that one, the female, was a Comet and the other, the male,
>was a Shubunkan). Anyway, we did nothing with these fish. We did not even
>feed them, they lived off the pond. The made it thru the winter with no
>problems and everything seemed fine. Well, my father noticed that the pond
>kept loosing water so he kept filling it. We now know that there was at least
>one mole making holes and that may have been the problem. Fourth of July
>weekend was very hot and my father thought he had left the hose on all night to
>fill the pond, but apparently one of the hose valves was closed so the pond did
>not get any water. When my father went down in the afternoon the pond was only
>a large puddle. The adult fish were in the puddle, but dead. He tried to
>bring them back to life, but to no avail. He noticed in the puddle were
>babies, so he filled the pond immediately. Then my daughter came home from
>college in August and decided they needed to enlarge the pond. So they dug
>another hole next to the old one, lined them both and joined them together.
>The small hole is now peanutshaped and is 15' wide at each circle and a total
>length of 30'. Now, my daughter has gone back to school and left us with a lot
>of problems. First of all, when the removed the babies we were able to count
>them and there is way more than we had thought. There are 140 of them! We are
>trying to figure out how to deal with them all. My daughter loves them and has
>even named a bunch of them, she did give 5 to my neighbor, but that was when
>she thought that there were only about 40 of them. One of our biggest problems
>is that we are afraid that there is not enough aeration. The old pond had a
>lot of water flow from runoff, but because we put the liner in this is not true
>anymore. The pond is way too far from the house to install any kind of pump,
>does anybody have any suggestions? Please anything on any subject of caring
>for these fish would be greatly appreciated.
>Thank you,
>Gina
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.