Thanks for the tips and answers on my question about paint. The reason for my reappearance here, is that we finally put in the new pond to improve the drawbacks to the big pond that was losing the green water battle. It was too full of koi to keep any lilies or anacharis going. They chewed up...

It'll be frost-time fairly soon here (Ottawa), so I'm planning what to do. In past years I've kept my Black Magic Taro awake, in a small aquarium under grow-bulbs (interesting factoid: the deep dusky colour only appears under sunlight; under artificial light the leaves are dark green with only the...

I'm going to leave the fishes in the pond this year, as their indoor cousins are maxing out my tanks. So the plan is to leave the pump going beneath the surface (1') and put one of the 100 watt heaters within a couple of feet of the pump. I'm also tempted to cover the pond with 2" of stryofoam...

Was offered quite a few (30 to 40 estimate on quanity in pond) koi that was in a pond on the property of this persons house they just bought. Its a small pond, above ground, but a lot of the koi are huge 18" plus and there is also a bunch of various other sizes as well. All this is in a pond of...

My back yard is swarmed with yellowjacket wasps every August and September. It can make it tough to sit by the pond with a drink or eat dinner on the deck. They are attracted by the flowering silverlace vines on the fence and deck railing. I have set traps for them, put out borax ant-bait and...

Do these products eat away at algae trapped in a gravel bog filter. If so, what is the best brand? We just built a new one, and there's lots of algae on the gravel as it starts to clear up the pond. Don't know what effect the taro and iris will have. That's all I had on hand to put in there, so...

Hello! I have a preformed pond (220gals) I will in Southern, Ontario, Canada. I'd like to know, if I should take my lilypad out of my pond, bring it inside over the winter months? Or will it grow new pads in the spring? I do have to take out all of my goldfish and put into an aquarium, as...

It was my skippy filter. Had it sitting beside the pond. It worked, so I bought another tub to put into the waterfall, and transfered the contents from the old tub to the new. In so doing I discovered that the tub expands a few gallons after it is filled, dropping the water level in the pond. ...

I had auful green water, I mean really bad thick looking green water. I now how about 15 african cichlids in about 1200 gallons. 700gph pump to tetra canister filter. I think it the activated charcoal that cleared things up. I used a half gallon size container. Folks told me that I needed 20...

From what I've been reading this may be an unusual question. I am a volunteer with an facility that is careing for some non-releasable bird. Among these are 2 ducks. They have a small(garden type) pond available to them, I'd estimate between 150 and 200 gallons. It is getting dirty quite fast...

I have made a small pond for a turtle. I'm wondering if anyone has a technique for connecting electricity in the outdoors. I'm concerned about moisture getting into the connection as I had a problem with an aquarium filter splattering on a connection and causing a tickling sensation in my hands...

Hey gang, I am currently working on a project to create a coffee table style pond book. The details of the layout and such are still being refined, so I'd rather not share them yet. We are still evaluating whether this is a viable project or not, and we decided the first step would be to see if we...

As my water is getting a little clearer day by day, I can now see 25 of my little fish. Today, while sitting out by the pond having a cup of "Morning Thunder", I noticed one of my koi has what appears to be puffy lips. None of the other fish seem afflicted. Does anyone know what this condition...

I started my first pond and live in Canada. The leaves are dropping fast and soon it will be well below freezing. My pond is about 1.5 meters deep, but that will freeze solid by mid November here. I have a 75 gallon tank which I hope will hold my first year fish consisting of 3 gold fish and...

This is the first year I've had a water hibiscus. Currently it is in the hole of a concrete block and did very well. Question is, does it stay there over winter or should I drop it below the freeze line. Same question for water mint, leave it where it's growing now or sink it? Thanks Karen Zone...

Owing to a bit of good luck, me and most of the fish are defecting from the small raised pond to the nice new Juwel Rio 400 tank for the winter :-) Mind you, I won't be able to do this when they're bigger ! Peter

Anyone else thinking about it? I am in MD, near Baltimore. It's been too cold to swim for weeks now, so the pool is getting closed this weekend. I was thinking of moving my filter plants to the main pond, so I could drain, and clean the filter. I figure then I can let the stream dry up so I can...

I have a question about pond/stream evaporation for any seasoned pond owners out there. My pond is about 23'x23'x24 inches deep with a 63 foot stream. The width of the water in the stream is about 14 inches. The stream bed is small river pebbles. Temps have been in the 70-80's in the day and 50's...

No newts yet, but today we found a baby snapping turtle sunning on a rock near the pond. Any thoughts on what I should do? BV.

I'm just guessing but I'm assuming that a garden pond keeper is more likely to find frogs and toads in the pond rather than newts and salamanders. And I'm thinking that newts and salamanders are more prevalent in suburbs that are more woodland in feel, where by design or happy accident, there are...