Greetings everyone! This msg is aimed mostly at new folks as the seasoned ponders have probably heard it before. We recently had a series of storms in our area. One batch knocked out electricity to more homes in our city than happened back in the killer tornados of 1978. If you have a pond that...

500 Gallon pond, 10 goldfish, 2 koi.....and after moving some stuff around the bottom of my pond yesterday.....lots of cr** on the bottom. It looked like it was snowing poop flakes. No bottom drain because the pond people kept telling me that I was making this more complex then necessary when I...

Please don't laugh at my question or suggest I need a shrink. After I installed my new Sequence 7200 pump I started realizing that if the pipe ever broke that this thing would pump my pond dry in about half an hour. My question is whether there is enough water pressure in the line to burst a pipe...

Hi my pond is not enormous and the lillys I have in the pond are huge,and they are starting to take over,can these be cut back without killing them all together,finding it more and more difficult to see my fish at all.

Today I attempt to install a new Sequence 7200 pump on my 2500 gallon pond. Will keep you posted and post some pics when done. Keep your fingers crossed that Murphy's Law is broken today..... Gary

HOUSTON - A huge "dead zone" of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it has spread across 5,800 square miles (15,000 square kilometers) of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, in what has become an annual occurrence caused by pollution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5595098/

"KenCo" wrote in message ... saw this on another group. As interesting as this may be to you, I see no reason to post it in a newsgroup about garden ponds. Please refrain from posting such irrelevant material here in the future. ...

What are those real tiny floating leaves you usually see floatin gon and arund aquatic plants in gadren centers. Its like a light green single or tiny double leaf abaout 1/8 inch in diam....and has a hair like root Usually you see the water full of it. They may have a pair of leaves now that I...

We went off to visit grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins in Southern Oregon (Medford). Note of caution - being Porg can be darned dangerous. I was driving two kids to Ashland (home of the Shakespeare plays) to go shopping when I spotted a sign that said 'water gardens, ponds, plants' which...

I wanted to add a light or two under the fountain and one at least in the pond in the middle around a little lagoon we have off to one side, and after pricing them things, you would think they were made of gold.....so I decided to build my own........I don't have any images yet, but they are easy...

Does anyone here raise "Wakins"? I had never heard of them before playing on the net today....really cool looking fish. Wondering if they are as friendly as KOI? Other differences (besides price) between KOI and Wakins?

Got my PVC pipe framed and aquatic netting enclosure all finished and installed. My Koi and goldfish don't know how to act...........before they had about 18" depth of water now they have more than 4 times the area and water thats up to 42" deep to roam in. I plumbed my fountain head and water tap...

I've bin looking for some aquatic fertilizer for my plants, but can't find any (I don't like buying on the net) Is there any other type that I can use.

I notice that the water hyacinth in my main pond is not nearly as green as those in a smaller pool that is in my waterfall stream. The pool hyacinths are deep green and are even flowering while the main pond hyacinths are lime green - yellow. The pool is partly shaded by some grasses nearby but...

Hi, I have been very confused over the relationship between flow rate and pipe/tube size. So I thought I would ask the group to see if anyone could explain it. For the sake of this discussion -- let's eliminate the pump (just assume a pump that is constant and it rated at 1000 gph at 1 ft lift)....

Hi, Hopefully this is a simple question -- how does the flow rate between something flowing just from gravity compare to say a 500 gph pump? Assuming the same tube size. The reason I ask is I have a veggie filter that is having water feed to it from a pump and water is returned to the pond via...

Let me know what you think, all sugestions welcome. It's at the bottom of the page: http://home.comcast.net/~grumpy232/pondpage.htm

Why won't my frogs sing!!!!! I have been wanting frogs forever now I have some and they won"t sing=BF=BF=BF???? Two are green frogs I think and one BIG FAT Bull frog. http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

Been experimenting on various brands and types of feed, with my GF & Koi as I am going broke paying their food bill. Now that they are up to a decent size I was considering buying catfish food. ABout $10.00 a 50# bag as compared to 13.00 for a 1 1/4 lb bag of Tetra Pond sticks and such. Cheapest...