After reading several websites that suggested covering a pond and keeping the filter running during the winter I decided to give it a go. My first attempt has used bigbubble bubble wrap covering about 70% of the pond area and insulating the filter. This has been a spectacular success with the...

You sound a lot like a self centered jerk that like to thump her tittyless chest in a lame assed attempt to make yorself look like someone. In all reality your a joke and as much of a troll as George is.............go crawl back under your slime covered rock, until we call. And while your at it...

Here's the latest: -I've been in contact with 2 members of Big-8. Both have offered advice, help and encouragement. I've given then full personal information about myself. -I've been in contact with unnamed posters in this group. They are long-time, trusted, genuine rec.ponders. I...

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:25:40 -0600, "PonderKoi" wrote: Before you reply to this thread, do you keep fish and a ponds? If so, we would love to hear about them. If not, then please remove the "rec.ponds" NG from your replies to this off-topic cross-posted thread. Our fish...

I know that the trolls are reading this as well as the true rec.ponders. I've received a long message back from a representative of Big-8. They are aware of the situation, and I'm told that I don't need to worry about false RFD's from the trolls. I've given them my personal info, and I...

You all are being duped. I have it on good source that this so called George,, who wants to start a moderated rec ponds group is no onther than.........are you ready for this......drum roll please.......Lone Gunman and Roy. Both of them have Hipcrime and both can easily propagate a group on...

As you already know, I provided this link in my first followup to my first post on Saturday. It gives some basic info, but it is __hopelessly__ outdated. Written in 1997. Most of what it says no longer applies. george

Hey George...go get a dam clue. Rec.ponds is dead, gonna stay dead, and will never be what it once was. There is just too many other forums that are moderated that are trashed or controlled by priveledged jerks. They tried to make a moderated forum already and its been trashed or used bery little....

My Fantails spawned about 3 weeks ago & I moved the pots with the eggs in to a new area that has no adult fish. There were hundreds originally, but now there only seems to be about 40 or so. I have found a lot of dead or nearly dead fry in the last week. We have had some very extreme weather here...

hello all!!! We recently purchased a fish pond. we do not have any fish in it yet. the question we have is for the the winter months do we just unplug the filter or what do we do? We have a 12 inch waterfall and it is a rubber liner. there isn't any fish or plant life yet. Thanks for your time Gary

"Tleilax" wrote in message ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21belief.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin New York Times Science By GEORGE JOHNSON Published: November 21, 2006

A number of times a year (or a month) about half the water in the pond "goes missing" There are not leaks but the water within 10 or so hours just disappears. A pal who has a similar problem call it an inversion. Any insight here?

Help! My landscaper accidently knocked a hose off my pond pump and emptied 3/4 of the water. When I arrived home my fish were in a foot of water, alive & swimming but I had to add water back late, last night immediatley, about 1,000 gallons. I didn't have any dechlorinator. Today I saw them...

Help! My landscaper accidently knocked a hose off my pond pump and emptied 3/4 of the water. When I arrived home my fish were in a foot of water, alive & swimming but I had to add water back late, last night immediatley, about 1,000 gallons. I didn't have any dechlorinator. Today I saw them...

One of my metallic Koi was looking slower than normal so I've netted him & he's got a bad dose of fungal infection. I've treated & isolated him (in a small 20 Gallon plastic box) & treated the pond. He's through the 1st night but the rot / cotton wool has got to a lot (30%) of his...

well I "winterized" the pond a couple weeks ago, then finally covered it over and dropped in the 500 watt heater and the temp rose nicely to almost 60 with the warm spell last week. dropped a bit since then but everyone is happy to see me with food. now I have to remember to give em some food...

Beer Rock wrote: One of my metallic Koi was looking slower than normal so I've netted him & he's got a bad dose of fungal infection. I've treated & isolated him (in a small 20 Gallon plastic box) & treated the pond. He's through the 1st night but the rot / cotton wool has got to a lot...

Wrote: roof liner, fish fine. most of these "toxic kills" are due to too many fish tossed into ice cold water and the fish die from a combination of cold shock and ammonia poisoning. Ingrid Your are correct that fish must be acclimated and not "tossed...

I'm considering a bottom drain and a double barrel filter for next year. Ideally I'd like the pump after the filter to maximize muck removal and eliminate the need for a pre-filter. Unfortunately this would mean putting the barrels below ground, which would not be my first choice for a number of...

I was trying to muck out the pond today, before I cover it for the winter. But I kept netting more fish than muck. I guess the cooler water has made them a little dopey. Any other time I've tried to catch them it's been a merry chase.