Was at the local Southern Homes and Garden center yesterday and inquired if they had any Parrots feather, to which they replied, no, but we sure wished it was legal to buy and sell in the state...DUH! To make a long story short I bought it mailorder and received it....no problem......so, so much...

I'm surprised they haven't had trouble with any other predators such as the herons! They've installed electric fences around the ponds, but what about winged death from above?! Crafty perpetrators won't be outsmarted 06:09 PM PDT on Friday, August 27, 2004 By GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News

I'm clearing up brown water from algae bloom and tanins. How much and how often can I change the water without freaking out or killing the fish? Our fish are African Cichlids, they seem pretty hardy, but maybe they're fooling me. -- ---------------------------------------------------- This...

I inherited a small pond with four or five comets, a large bullfrog (reaaaally large), and some plants (and the requisite snails). The previous home owner told me that i shouldn't feed the fish, even though he had a ton of food, and all the maintenance it needed was the occasional cleaning...

Anyone have experience growing nymphaea mexicana in their pond? Specifically, does it bloom a lot? I live in So. Calif., avocado growing country, no frost to speak of. I am interested in a hardy or half hardy lily that blooms *alot*. I am not concerned so much with color, form, etc..... The most...

Sigh.. don't think I'll see our fish this year. We had green water, and I put barley pads in to kill the algae off. Once it died off, we were treated to brown "tea" water, still murky. We've had lots of rain this year, and the pond is in about 3/4 sun, so now I'm back to green water. I still...

I know that i'm more of a lurker here, than a regular poster, but you good folks have helped me out many times-- This is a biggie ! Our pond began losing water this week at about two inches daily. ( pond is 20'X8'X 28 inches deep.) The pond has a hole in the poly-liner, we found it when we removed...

Been doing a lot of reading lately and I am getting conflicing info on how to care for the various species of water iris. Some references claim that several species cannot grow directly in water and other references refute those claims. Then a third group mixes up the advice of the first...

When we lived in Northern BC (north of this place) I remember pods of killer whales coming up and swimming beside our boat. Glad they didn't want us to come out and play... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Friendly' orca having whale of a time damaging boats August 29, 2004 GOLD...

Well this moring when the wife came in from work she stopped to look at her new Red and White Comets and her shubunkin. I had watched them last night for over 2 hours in her 1/2 barrel planter. None made any attempt at jumping. They were relatively very very friendly. They ate great, and then this...

Well it finally happened, I managed not to let it happen for almost 10 years, but I finally had a full head to toe dip with destiny. I did a full header into the koi pond, good thing that island isn't in there any more, but if it was, I wouldn't have been doing what I was doing, which was, trying...

You have GOT to read this! Exciting! http://technology.ssc.nasa.gov/suc_stennis_water.html

We would like to try and winter over some of our little green visitors this year, so that there are not so many little gren bodies to clean up next spring. The pond is in the back yard 15' x 21' x 3' and is lined with EPDM. There is a 12" garden all the way around it and a waterfall but that...

Ok, started web searching but it looks like all the filters I'm seeing also need a pump as well. Let me revise me question from before.... Does anyone make a filter/UV pump combo? -- Gareee© (Gareee "at" Charter "dot" net) Homepage:

Until you restrict it down for a good flow out of the hand pump so that the surface water is not all stirred up it puts the pump into a load, and it makes a droning sound. Adjust the restrictor clamp until noise goes away and its too much water flow. So I added a T to the inlet tube between the...

We have a large 2 year old 55'x 35' pond. Our next project will be to make a bog. The landscape is such that I can channel the rain flow into a wet area and have it overflow into a stream which leads to my pond. (stream will be run by 5000 gph pump). My pond has no fresh source of water besides...

As the season winds down it looks like the Wal Marts etc will be closing out their inventory soon. I may be tempted to buy a small 150-250 gallon liner if the price is right and set up a few fish/plant pond. However, none I have seen are anything but preforms or 20 mil. Is 20 mil a lot...

was cleaning out the filter and discovered hundreds of tiny black "wormlike" creatures anyone albe to tell me what these are? Thanks Elaine

Any good? Any problems? How easy are they to clean? Iny feedback with better recommendations, or warnings of stuff to avoid? -- Gareee© (Gareee "at" Charter "dot" net) Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/ellison/86/mainframe.htm Custom Figures, Wallpapers and more!

Hello, My koi that I have had for 13 years has some white fuzzy stuff growing from the folds around the edge of one eye socket. I have read about Formalin and Malachite Green and treated the entire pond every other day for 10 days. The eye appears to be the same. All other koi and goldfish in...