This evening I noticed on my water fall rocks something that was making the waterfall bounce up before flowing over. Figuring it was just the usual algae I pulled off a clump. It wasn't algae but something that is almost fern or moss like, very cool looking, dark green, with a root structure. I put...

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We pulled out the pump and while there were snail shells in the basket there were not any in the old pump or in the piping. Thank goodness!! So a new pump is in. Water hyacinths back in the filter. Waterfall running. Lots of smooshed snails on the bottom of the pond. Bought four pretty koi and put...

has anyone in the UK built a skippy filter?? if so where did you source the Media?? im seriously considering building one (for my 1000 gallon) pond but feel by the time ive paid postage to the UK (and duty etc) any savings made by using a skippy will be lost.. TIA for any help Lost

Are they giant goldfish or are they carp ?

I've just updated my site with new pictures of my pond, frogs and lilies if you care to take a look. There is a picture of what I believe to be a pickeral frog, if it's not, could you tell me what type of frog he is. Thanks the new pictures are Pond Pictures July 04 Karen Zone 5 Ashland,...

Just wondering if there was a general rule of thumb for how often to clean out the pond filter. I've got a very simple pump immersed in a box that has a bio filter (net bag filled with things that look like dish scrubbies and plastic hair curlers in it), topped by a square 1" thick spongy pad...

Okay, the eggs on the plants in the kiddy pool apparently are two different things. Some of them look just like baby guppies, so I am guessing they are some kind of fish. They swim like fish. They are greyish and well, they look like guppies to me. I called the farm store and they said some...

It is too late now but I wish I hadn't done it. I tried to fix the leak by removing the flange or face plate and regluging the liner. Oh, what fun. I had more trouble lining up the holes in the face plate, the holes in the liner and the screw holed in the skimmer. Took me more than a day. ...

Some Water Lettuce, some Water Hyacinth, some Duckweed, 4 lilies, some Mare's Tail, some Anacharis, some Myriophyllum. Little by little, work continues and plants are added often and the water is green. Work continues on the Flour Mill ( need to find some wood shake, unpopular in So. Ca. ), and...

Had a stone waterfall put in about 9 months ago and this year has been an absolute nightmare for blanketweed. Always had it but never this bad. Waterfall gets covered in it and no matter how thoroughly I clean waterfall and pond it's back within a couple of weeks. I have used chemicals to treat...

What are Trap door nails? any pictures? , are they pond friendly?

I have a small pond that is overgrowing. I have pulled of the plants out and put in pots to await veggie filter or additional pond (addictions suck). But I am seeing larva in the pots. I put a couple of mosquito fish in them, but that doesn't seem to solve the problem. The GF suggests...

So where do I get this stuff to treat the platnts? Didn't see anything at Lowes or Home Depot. The aquarium store maybe? Got up this morning and found frog eggs all over everything in the kiddy pool where I put the new plants to quarantine them and pick the snails off. I saw two little brownish...

I have been posting and reading in the goldfish news group about snails. and it seems as if some posters feel that snails are danggerious to their goldfish. Basically buying plants and the snails on the plants having diseases. what my question here is, how many people here have had a fish get sick...

I've seen "proper" leeches before in natural ponds, marshes etc. However, when buying some oxygenators for our small pond, I noticed what looked like a small transparent leech. I *thought* I'd hosed it off the plants before the went in, but today there were three hiding in the folds of the...

I just found this, and placed bid on it, on eBay $22.00 (with shipping Tx. to Pa.) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20507&item=4313209211&tc=photo checked out some of their other auctions: 9 watt UV $60.00 Home Depot $200.00 1600 GPH...

Hi all, My wife reports that this morning she found three of our trapdoor snails on our lawn instead of the pond. Unfortunately, she found one of them by running it over with a bicycle. Does anyone know why they might be wandering? We've had the pond for a few years now and they haven't done...

What is the best way to raise and feed apple snails? I would like to raise them in a fish tank in the house, then put some of them in my small yard pond during the summer mo... Any ideas??