Hi All, Some goldfish (comets, I believe) in our pond have bumps on them. No fish has more than one of them and there doesn't seem to be any common place for the bump to appear -- e.g., one fish has one on the side of his/her head above the gills, another has one along his lateral line down near...

I am constructing a wild life pond, so purchased liner plus 2 underlays. Having carefully laid all three, placed some stones and soil on the bottom I proceeded to fill. Unfortunately the "overlay seems to want to float, and bellows up from the sides, though I keep pushing it down with a pole it...

I am not sure if my 9" red ear slider has 'escaped' or dead. The pond has a muddy bottom and quite big. I am just wondering if the body of any dead turtle float or sink? If they float, then I haven't seen anything floating so it must be still alive, in the pond (hopefully) or somewhere. Thanks...

i was given an old pool filter(sand) what can i use init for fish pond

Hi. I've got a 1/2 barrel pond with a plastic liner on my porch. There are some tiny bugs that hang out on the walls of the liner just above the water line. If disturbed, they jump onto the surface of the water, where they float and then return to the side. They can jump several inches. ...

I had a painted turtle and a red eared slider that had outgrown the turtle bowl in the house. They were almost as large as the palm of a hand. So out in the backyard pond (6'x12' about 2' deep,plastic liner) they went with the goldfish. They were doing very well, sunning on a log and competing with...

Hello, I have just started a new pond, my first one becoming too small for the fish. I was advised to add salt to the new pond as a preventative for stress when moving the fish. However, I have a problem with green water now, and wonder if the biofilter is effected by the salt, in other words, does...

ak! Noticing 'Kathy' with a captial 'K' showing up and now 'kathy' with a small 'k' showing up and that's it. They are not me. So I'm leaving. I don't like my name being caught up in this mess. I wish my rec.ponds friends all the very best. I'll watch the group from time to time to see

Hello Everybody. Has anyone else still got taddies with no legs? I'm a bit worried about them with autumn coming up and temperatures soon to start dropping. I would have thought that they should be frogs by now and I was hoping that there isn't something about my pond that's stopping...

I have a 1700g pond which seems to have sprung a leak for no obvious reason ..It is a liner with underlay which has been ok for a year now there is a waterfall running which have checked for leakage.I don't want to let the pond go too low as I have nowhere to put the fish, is there any way...

Im trying to find a supplier in Georgia (Atlanta-Athens areas) thatsells 45 mil EPDM in different sizes. I dont want to pay the extra $100+ to have some shipped. If I can find someone in North Georgia thatsells it, Id rather make the drive and pick it up myself. Anyone?

My husband just plucked several huge 3" or so slugs our of my mom's pond skimmer! GROSS! Are these good or bad for the pond? Just another thought, would they make good fishing bait???

I inherited a pond about 2 years ago in my new house in the south of England and although it was a nice feature I ignored it until very recently. Its about 3000 ltrs (650 gals) 2m X 3m X 0.7m and I think its many years old, I think its made of concrete and has some very attractive stonework around...

I am stumped! We have 2 smaller ponds, and overnight every one of my lilypads were eaten off. Also totally gone were every one of the impatients growing in the rocks on the waterfall. We've had the ponds for a couple years already. What is going on here? The water hyacinths and fish are still...

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Im in the market for a skimmer. I have been looking at the Laguna Powerflow PT-1774, and the Pondsweep 700. Anyone have comments, suggestions, pros and cons of each design? Whatever you can give me. They are both the same price from my sources, so Its all going to come down to this post to make...

We have had our 250 gallon pond for around six years and now 7 Koi in it - a number of which were from when we built the pond. The pond is well-oxygenated and well filtered. However the fish have grown considerably and we reckon there is 84" of fish now which as we understand it means we have...

Hi all! I just thought I would introduce myself and say that I love the idea of starting up a pond in my backyard sometime. Seems like goldfish would be good enough fish for it and am wondering if the pond would need to be protected with a wire fence to keep out predators like raccoons,...

Somewhat rhetorical I think. I was cleaning the boys yesterday (pond refugees) and I noticed that their Ammo-Alert was far from it's pale yellow. It was up in the danger zone, so I tested with the Ammonia kit and it was reading around 400. YIKES. So I did a water change and added all the Ammo-Lock...