Time to finish the bait shack. It gives me something to do while I'm waiting for the sod to show up. I'm looking for suggestions as to what to put in the windows. I know that it will at least have 4 panes of glass, but what to put behind the glass. Fishing lures? Boat ads? I already did a...

So the other day my wife calls me at work. Says Chris something is wrong with the pond. It's close to empty and there are pieces of fish everywhere. I asked if the pump was off and it was. The pump has a float the automatically turns the pump off if it drops to low. Anyways I get home later to...

Hi, Now that my pond is finally thawed, I am wondering when I start to feed my fish and what to feed them. I only lost one 8 inch Koi over the winter and still have about 15 fish. I live just west of Ottawa, Ontario. Scott p.s. My idea for an insulated, heated housing for my air pump...

Anyone have a working website for Shari's Petal & Ponds? Using the one I had last year comes up with a blank page. ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

For the shareholders, an annual, spring report... Iris peaking above water surface. Odd, I thought I sank them to the bottom. Do I have nearly 4 foot tall Iris already? I have to split them ASAP. Water Parsley or watercress popping up all over the place. At least two large green frogs are...

My pond is doing good but the black colored bottom of the preform I have is to plain looking. Is there anything I can get to lay on the bottom? Like maybe a fake picture of gravel or pond stone? Maybe something that can handle being in water all year. I had real gravel and no way will I do that...

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Hi everyone, I'm new to this newsgroup. My name is Dan, and I live in Maine. This spring when my pond finally thawed, I found all my fish dead. (goldfish) here were 8 second year fish, about 5", and about 40 small first year fish. (I had actually taken out at least 50 last fall). The pond is about...

Yesterday I snagged DH, left youngest son on the sofa (ankle surgery), eldest son on the guitar (big band event coming up) but two out of three isn't bad! One day in the spring I declare it is mother's day and therefore it is time for MY projects! We got the waterfall weeded and cleaned of...

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Attached to some LONG strands of blanketweed I found several strings of ?? eggs ?? - but what are they ? Definately not frogspawn. These are jelly strings, between 4 and 7 inches long, with black spots all in a line, about 20 eggs per string. I'm in UK. Pond contains a few brand-new young Koi,...

http://la.znet.com/~seannydinh/Pix/bird.jpg Caught this bird harassing the fish. He was after the Fathead Minnow surrounding the pellets. All the fish went into hiding. For days I never knew why my fish kept hiding.

This is the annual report, more or less: Perhaps six years ago, my wife Pat said as we were wandering through the mall pet shop, "Hey, my goldfish tank would look nice with that cute little Koi in it." So we bought a 3-inch fairly nondescript Koi and brought him home. A bit over a year later, he...

It's amazing how my fish still remember me after not seeing them all winter! A couple of the koi love to have their snouts rubbed. One goldfish swam right into my hand. And they have really grown over the winter!

1. General ((Construction, Green Water, Filters, Liners, Maintenance, etc.) 1.1. Who helped in answering these questions? 1.2. What questions should you ask before building a pond? 1.3. What are some other websites worth seeing? 1.4. Can I learn everything I need to know about...

Can someone point me to a source to making fake rocks. I'd like to make some small ones for hiding geocaches. Small - like the size of a grapefruit. TIA....Dan

I'm finding that the water in the lower two barrels of my pond is too turbulent for small floating plants. The water lettuce seems to ride its way to a quiet spot against a marginal and stay, but the azolla gets pushed under at the spillway outflow and tumbled around underwater. Then its roots...

I am about to build a small pond (a couple hundred gallons) and am wondering about what water to use. I live in the country in central Texas (aka the Hill Country) and the water that comes out of our well is very hard, with plenty of calcium compounds, some iron and some hydrogen sulfide. My plan...

I'm looking for ideas on plants I could use as a privacy screen between my house and the neighbors. Here is my situation: I'm in Zone 6, dry climate. My neighbor and I want to create a privacy screen between our houses. We don't want to erect a fence but are looking at other alternatives, such...

It finally broke double digits here this week, so I decided it was time for the bad news. Since I had looked under the cover a few times during the winter and did not see a single fish. So I asked the neighbour lad to give me a hand to lift the cover off. It weighs 200+ pounds, so it takes a...