The koi in my 3 yr old pond have spawned! Woo Hoo! Didn't even know it until I saw a 1 1/2 inch fish swimming amongst my much larger koi. Turns out there are at least 4 that have made it past the big guys and gotten large enough to swim more or less freely. I want to put them in their own pond...

I started getting overrun by floating pond plants so I started feeding it to my chickens.Now they beg for it. Its so hot here that I think it must be very refreshing. My peasants are in with the pond so they help themselves. The peasants are good birds and dont destroy the pond. If I let the...

...after 3 years of reliable service! ;-) ...time to go to autozone! LoL

Is it possible to repair a Lotus 'little diamond' pump that's just stopped working? What reason might there be for it failing ? --Yes I've checked the fuse! Also lost the little plastic bearings off each end of the impeller shaft!

Hi Guys I have a dilemma I want to use some salt in my pond BUT....... All my local suppliers ie: Aquatics Centres have a product PDV (pure Dried Vacuum) Salt This has Anti Caking agent E535 (Sodium ferrocyanide) They are ALL totally adamant and swear they have used this product for 20+ years...

Curious to know if anyone else has ever had this problem. I have a CPS SK-1 skimmer on the side of my pond. The unit floats on top of the water (tethered to the side). The problem is that the inside strainer basket(made of abs plastic) floats inside of the housing about 3/4 of an inch. Small...

Lovely, my red hibiscus opened its first bloom today also, unfortunately we had a wind storm the day before and I had to top it, to get the rest of it to stay up right again. The basket is now staked with a bungee cord all well hidden, something I should have done before the storm. Regardless, I...

This is just a post reporting results I had from tips in another thread. I made it a new thread to highlight it. Take no credit other than my success story, the concept was posted by others. I've been fighting string Algae for three years. Barely straw works early in the year but fails when the...

Hi I have borrowed a water meter which has 5 black digits followed by 3 red digits and measures in m3 (i suppose this is metres cubed ?). The name on the meter is maddalena could anyone explain how to read and convert to litres. (the mate who gave it me has forgot how to convert it also) Thanks in...

I got my Permalon liner from Kenco about four years ago. It's holding up great but the bug to expand has hit and I need some advice. My pond now has a depth of about three feet and I want to add a two foot deep extension. I would rather not remove the old portion of the pond (Oh God!!! I DO NOT...

He swims like this all the time, and not always at the surface . I have 3 other fish in there that all seem very healthy. He has been like this almost since I got him about a month ago. He was the third fish added. He eats and doesnt look hurt, no spots or anything, but isnt growing as...

Just a quick question ... I now have one large(ish) fish that is still black even though all the same generation are gold/white, and two young(ish) fish that are still black, as you might expect. The different fish is only just over an inch and half long but is already white with a little bit of...

Anyone make one of there? Was it hard? Anyone selling a home made one?

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I have a small (250 gallon) pond, with an approximately 10 gallon upper pond, that feeds water down a waterfall into the main pond. In the past I have used water hyacinths in the upper pond to "strain' the water, and it has worked well. Are there other floating plants that could be used in the same...

I have moved into a house with a partially built pond. It has a brick above-gound structure, about 10'long x 5' wide, with a 2' deep squarish hole in the ground. I am thinking about lining it with a EPDM liner, but I don't want any fish. I may add a plant or two, but mostly like the idea of looking...

Do I my eyes decieve me or does my anacharis have little white flowers on it? BV.

Here is a link of pictures of our pond/waterfall leak http://public.fotki.com/Nikkiekoala/our_garden/ We attempted to fix it at the beginning of the season. We used great stuff to stop the waters path. We didn't have a leak for around 6 weeks. The leak started out slowly. When we saw the...

Hey gang, Apparently all of those minnow fry, were not minnows, but goldfish. We have several babies that are getting large. I expect by next Spring, or possibly even this winter, I may need to dump some. Are there any MD ponders looking for free goldies? I will have some in the coming months. BV.

Has anyone delt with these guys? Prices seem reasonable.