For those of you who read my earlier post about my albino channel catfish, I am happy to report that I tried feeding him this evening, and he finally started eating. After not eating for since tuesday evening, he was quite hungry. He looks to be back to his normal frisky self, whatever the...

Pond is a little bare this year due to the cooler weather. The Water Hyacinth are surviving, but not flourishing. So I wanted to introduce some other quick growing cover to help with the Algae and provide shade, as well as a nosh for the GF. I've read good and bad about Duckweed. I've got a 500...

Greetings, Im new to the group, Ive kept koi in small ponds for around 15 years, but recently took the plunge, heh heh, and dug myself a 600 or so gallon flexible liner pond. Fortunately my climate makes this a year round hobby and Im looking forward to that. Right now I am using seed water from...

I saw where someone was wanting suggestions for books on building your own pond and waterfall. The man that designed and put in our pond and waterfall is Jeff Reid. He has written a book called" How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls." Its published by Tetra. Hope this helps whoever it was that...

cant believe this I live in Warwick RI a city of 80,000 plus people. I was sitting out by the pond and all of a sudden a doe comes walking out of the brush on side of my house. looks at us and walks to a swamp in back yard. I am in shock still

This is the first year for our pond and everything is going well. I purchased 2 lilies, 1 lotus, 2 water hyacinth and 2 water lettuce. My lilies have thrown 5 flowers and the leaves are fine. The lotus has two large buds but the leaves are showing brown patches at the edges. Over a 2 month period...

I visited a local farm supply store today and they had a few water plants left in a nasty tub outside. I paid $1.50 for a medium size clump of water hyacinth which looks fairly healthy. For another $3.00 I got : 3 bunches of what they said is parrot's feather. One bunch is mostly green, but...

Hi Scott, You need to post to a website. Some newsreaders block pictures as this is suppose to be a text only group. I would like to see your filter. ~ jan On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:53:28 -0400, "Scott M." wrote: Hi everyone,

2pods wrote: I've been given two shubunkins and a grass carp to put in our pond. Having never kept fish before, how much and how often should they be fed ? I realise they may well be getting all they require from the pond, but would like to feed them now and again. Peter

I just built a bio filter with veg on top and was wondering how long it will take for this bios stuff to grow in the filter? How long until it is working at 100%? Can the bio freeze solid or should I sink it? I used pot scrubbies and cut up election signs (Canadian). The corrugated plastic makes...

I am going to be upgrading my current foam jet fountain and I was wondering if there are any foam jet fountain experts around. I currently own a Beckett 535 GPH fountain pump hooked up to a standard Beckett Foam Jet which gives me about a 2 foot high stream of foam water (closer to 22 inches after...

Hubby and I built a Skippy filter (many thanks to whomever posted the URL!) last Saturday, and today we can see the bottom of the 3.5-4 foot deep pond, even though the water is brownish from the barley straw pellets I put in the veggie filter Sunday! Oh joy! I can now see my fish! Now, to build...

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Hi........ Several years back, I put in a 6 ft x 9 ft x 18 inch deep pond and stocked it with baby Koi and a few assorted goldfish. Most of the fish are small/medium......4-5 inches long or smaller. But my 3 oldest, Koi, beautiful specimens that they are, keep growing larger and...

Built a pond last year with a small waterfall. The waterfall is just five limestone slabs stacked on top of each other. I don't have space for anything more elaborate. The bottom slab juts over the pond. It worked fairly well last year with a few small leaks, which I fixed by shimming here and...

I changed my signature to include my pond page, just wanted to see if it worked. Jan http://hometown.aol.com/pinkpggy/index.html

All the landscaping is done! Oh sure, is it ever really finished...

Hi, I am new to ponding and have a couple of fish and was wondering if anyone in my area has too many fish or some fish they want to get rid of. Im in Amesbury Ma Thanks

Hi Alex, A couple of thoughts. Do you think that the pond is getting runoff from the lawn when it rains so hard? And is there fertilizer or herbicide on the lawn? Do you have a mech/bio filter running on the pond? You can read the algae primer for tips on your murky green water in the link in my...

Takining a shortcut beside the pond, I lost my footing on the rocks and in I went. All I can say is its a good thing she didn't have the camera with her! http://photos.yahoo.com/jeepin9557