I would like to know how to purchase Koi fry, or fertilized eggs. Does anyone have a thought on this?

I want to build a water structure that starts with a waterfall and widens into a 12' X 12' X 4' deep swimming area. Any ideas? Links?

Hi This morning one of our goldfish was dead. Other than 2 black marks on his head he seemed quite normal. Our pond is a garden pond about 6 x 4 x 4. It contains about 40 goldfish and apart from cleaning and feeding the pond is left very much alone. The pond has been going for about 10 years with...

My mom had a goldfish that looked like it swallowed a tennis ball! It seemed otherwise healthy enough, but my husband decided to do "surgery" on it to see what that growth was. It was all water inside. Needless to say, the goldfish is no more, but what would have been wrong with it? A...

Hello all, I'm in the process of building a pond in our courtyard and have a few questions remaining even after reading all the pool of knowledge stored in this group (bad pun, I know...) Basically I need to know how well sandstone will hold up as the stone used in a waterfall. The waterfall will...

Has anyone built a water wheel rather than a waterfall? I was trying to dream up ways to hide my filter barrels (wip) without taking up too much room. So I thought if I built a narrow mill house beside the pond, I could hang a water wheel over the pond and save myself some space. The one problem...

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I have a bunch of flat rocks that I have fashioned into a sort of fountain that allows the pump/filter discharge to spill over the rocks and into the pond. They are mostly flat rocks and for now the water runs over them and back into the pond very well. I am afraid, however, that an animal may...

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I have a small sized pond (1000 litres) with 3 goldfish (1 comet, 1 ordinary abd 1 shubunchkin) and 6 golden orfs. They seem to hide on a regular basis underneath the waterfall and come out when i turn on the underwater lights to feed them after 9pm. They all seem a lot more active at this time....

It looks like the Pond expansion will be a GO in the spring. So I would like to add some Koi to the herd. I know I'll lose some of the GF Fry to the Koi, but will the Koi bother the older GF? The older GF are 3+ inches and the Koi will likely be around 6+ inches. There will likely be a few more...

Hi, I saw a snake in the pond as I fed the fish! I don't know what is was as it moved quick! Will it do any harm? How can I get rid of it? Barry

I've got a ~500gal pond with a small (2 foot) waterfall. My pump is on the way out. Any good recommendations? TIA, Fred

I recently installed an external pump with a priming pot for my pond. After a few hours of running I discover that the pump is still running but there is no water flow and the priming pot is empty of water. I can stop the pump, refill the priming pot, restart it and it will pump water for a few...

I have installed the liner of my 5m x 4m wildlife pond in Wiltshire, England. I have designed it to have a metre-wide very gently sloping beach all around and a shelf at about half depth. Because the pond is quite large, and being a wildlife pond needs to be copiously stocked, I will need to put in...

hi can someone give me suggested on building a water fall i have got some slat it's 2" thick by 2ft / 1ft x10 i was after some info on building a water fall with them so can you give me some ideas thanks

I had an idea for a 'new' pond filter and I wanted to build a scale model before digging large holes in the backyard. Even though it's only temporary, I'd still like to make it as leakproof as possible. The one part I'm having trouble dreaming up is a minature bulhead. Something that requires a...

There is a pelican who has decided he likes to hang around my pond! I know he's probably trying to eat my fish, I hope the fish are quick enough to avoid capture. My wife has scared him off a few times while going down in the morning to feed the fish. What can I do to keep this thing away. And...

Just installed a new wildlife pond. The water table is a bit high here so I weighted the liner down with some stone; and to protect the butyl liner I put some underliner (overliner?) down on it first. Filled it for the first time today and the pure white overliner shows very distinctly. The pond...

Hi! First, congrats if you are a ponder who hasn't been driven away from this group by the late unpleasantness. Second, my Koi and goldfish, about 12 in a 450 gallon pond, average length 6 ", have recently been spending most of their time at the surface under the fountain, They've pretty much...