Some snapshots (Pond included)

[Happy'Cam'per]

Greetings Porgers

I figured that some of you would be experiencing pond withdrawal symptoms
due to your Winter so i thought I would post some pics to tide you over till
Springtime..

If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all things
aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a couple
of large images so it might take a little while to all load up. Thanks and
may you all have a good day :)

Kind Regards
Cameron James
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."

[rtk]

Happy'Cam'per wrote:
> Greetings Porgers
>
> I figured that some of you would be experiencing pond withdrawal symptoms
> due to your Winter so i thought I would post some pics to tide you over till
> Springtime..
>
> If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all things
> aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
> http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a couple
> of large images so it might take a little while to all load up. Thanks and
> may you all have a good day :)
>
> Kind Regards
> Cameron James
> --
> "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
> antisymmetric,
> second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."
>

Lovely pics! Beautiful tanks. Lovely partner. Your pond design looks
original to me, a satisfying combination of formal and natural, really
nice. Although I have a sal****er tank as well as others, I think there
still is nothing as beautiful as a planted tank.

Especially this morning, before 6 a.m., temperature 5.2, wind chill -2,
dew point -2.2 !, it is comforting to see your beautiful sunny pond.

Ruth Kazez

[Hal]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:58:50 -0500, rtk > wrote:

>> If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all things
>> aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
>> http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a couple
>> of large images so it might take a little while to all load up. Thanks and
>> may you all have a good day :)

Looks great! I especially liked the Baghdad lily. I have one that
I expected to die because of the below freezing temperatures we've
had, but it still has new sprouts in about 50* F water.

Regards,

Hal

[Richard Tanzer]

I like your pond, but I miss my fish.

My pond froze over about 5 weeks ago and I haven't seen them since.
Actually I have a bubbler and a heater that keeps a hole open, but I
can't see inside. The pond is covered with about 6 in to 1 ft of ice and
about another foot of snow over that, so it's too dark to see.

I a few weeks the ice will start to thin out and melt. I have no reason
to think that the koi and goldfish are having troubles, but I'll feel
better when I see them swim.

Rich


"Happy'Cam'per" > wrote in :

> Greetings Porgers
>
> I figured that some of you would be experiencing pond withdrawal
> symptoms due to your Winter so i thought I would post some pics to
> tide you over till Springtime..
>
> If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all
> things aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
> http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a
> couple of large images so it might take a little while to all load up.
> Thanks and may you all have a good day :)
>
> Kind Regards
> Cameron James
> --
> "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
> antisymmetric,
> second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was
> good."
>
>

[Happy'Cam'per]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Ruth, it's a Roof liner, you inspired me
last year with yours, seems to be going good so far.
Hal, is Baghadad Lily the common name for it? Learn something new everyday.
The blue one is an endemnic species (Nymphae Capensis). At the moment I'm
more worried about the hot temp here, 35 degrees +, so they're taking a bit
of strain at the moment!

Regards
Cameron
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."

[Hal]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:39:08 +0200, "Happy'Cam'per" > wrote:

>Hal, is Baghadad Lily the common name for it? Learn something new everyday.
>The blue one is an endemnic species (Nymphae Capensis). At the moment I'm
>more worried about the hot temp here, 35 degrees +, so they're taking a bit
>of strain at the moment!

I don't know. Looks like what I bought as a Baghdad Viviparous
Tropical lily and I didn't think it got too hot for them. Mine gave
me one or two blooms a week all summer. Check the top side of the
leaf opposite of the stem and see if you don't see a small sprout
coming out of the leaf. That, to my understanding is the mark of a
viviparous lily that reproduces from the leaf. This was my first
year with one and I've never tried keeping a leaf with a new plant
over winter in an aquarium, but I've heard you can do that.

The information that came with mine indicated the water temperature
has to be about 70*F for them to do well, but my water temperature has
gone as low as 40*F for a few days and I can still see growth coming
from the plant. After wondering about it, I don't care what it is,
I just hope it lives through the winter, so I don't have to steal
another $25 of my wife's jewelry money to replace it.

Regards,

Hal

[news groups]

Happy'Cam'per wrote:
> Greetings Porgers
>
> I figured that some of you would be experiencing pond withdrawal symptoms
> due to your Winter so i thought I would post some pics to tide you over till
> Springtime..
>
> If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all things
> aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
> http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a couple
> of large images so it might take a little while to all load up. Thanks and
> may you all have a good day :)
>
> Kind Regards
> Cameron James
> --
> "In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
> antisymmetric,
> second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."
>
>
Love your planted tanks! They are simply beautiful! Thank you for
sharing the pics!
I have one freshwater tank with a few plants and LOTS of string algae.
I am working on it though.

[Derek Broughton]

Hal wrote:

> Check the top side of the
> leaf opposite of the stem and see if you don't see a small sprout
> coming out of the leaf. That, to my understanding is the mark of a
> viviparous lily that reproduces from the leaf.

Right.

> This was my first
> year with one and I've never tried keeping a leaf with a new plant
> over winter in an aquarium, but I've heard you can do that.

My first (and so far only) tropical lily was a a "Tiger Lotus Lily" (only
marginally striped, and not at all like a lotus, so I figure it was named
by a real estate agent or a used car salesman). I never attempted to
overwinter the original tuber - I just saved the largest offshoots. That
worked for a few years, but I never did get as good results after the first
year - now I've got a greenhouse to start them in, it might work better.

> The information that came with mine indicated the water temperature
> has to be about 70*F for them to do well, but my water temperature has
> gone as low as 40*F for a few days and I can still see growth coming
> from the plant. After wondering about it, I don't care what it is,
> I just hope it lives through the winter, so I don't have to steal
> another $25 of my wife's jewelry money to replace it.

LOL. "But it's for a good cause..." :-)
--
derek

[~ jan JJsPond.us]

>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 Cameron James "Happy'Cam'per" wrote:

>If you are interested in taking a squizz at some pics of my "all things
>aquatic" addiction please follow the link:
>http://www.rse.co.za/Fishplants.htm (Pond shots included, there are a couple
>of large images so it might take a little while to all load up. Thanks and
>may you all have a good day :)

You've inspired me to go take some shots of my aquariums... especially my
new 55, it's planted.... sort of. ;o) ~ jan


~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

[Crashj]

On or about Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:19:00 GMT, Richard Tanzer
> wrote something like:

>I like your pond, but I miss my fish.
>
>My pond froze over about 5 weeks ago and I haven't seen them since.
>Actually I have a bubbler and a heater that keeps a hole open, but I
>can't see inside. The pond is covered with about 6 in to 1 ft of ice and
>about another foot of snow over that, so it's too dark to see.
<>
Outside of a pond, man's best friend is a book;
inside it's too dark to read.
G. Marx
--
Crashj

[~ jan JJsPond.us]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:34:31 GMT, Crashj >
wrote:

>On or about Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:19:00 GMT, Richard Tanzer
> wrote something like:
>
>>I like your pond, but I miss my fish.
>>
>>My pond froze over about 5 weeks ago and I haven't seen them since.
>>Actually I have a bubbler and a heater that keeps a hole open, but I
>>can't see inside. The pond is covered with about 6 in to 1 ft of ice and
>>about another foot of snow over that, so it's too dark to see.
><>
>Outside of a pond, man's best friend is a book;
>inside it's too dark to read.
>G. Marx

I think that was a dog. You could read a vinyl coated book in a pond with a
face mask, I'm quite sure.... assuming it wasn't having a suspended algae
problem. :o) ~ jan


~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

[Richard Tanzer]

>><>
>>Outside of a pond, man's best friend is a book;
>>inside it's too dark to read.
>>G. Marx
>
> I think that was a dog. You could read a vinyl coated book in a pond
> with a face mask, I'm quite sure.... assuming it wasn't having a
> suspended algae problem. :o) ~ jan
>
>
> ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~
>

I've heard "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside it's
too dark to read." attributed to Mark Twain.

As Yogi Berra said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

[Derek Broughton]

Richard Tanzer wrote:

>>><>
>>>Outside of a pond, man's best friend is a book;
>>>inside it's too dark to read.
>>>G. Marx
>>
>> I think that was a dog. You could read a vinyl coated book in a pond
>> with a face mask, I'm quite sure.... assuming it wasn't having a
>> suspended algae problem. :o) ~ jan
>>
>>
>> ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~
>>
>
> I've heard "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside it's
> too dark to read." attributed to Mark Twain.
>
> As Yogi Berra said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Groucho: http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3191
--
derek