Anyone in the south getting ready to compost any WH or water lettuce? -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com

A couple of years ago I made a base for a water lily spitter out of quick-crete but I heard that you shouldn't put quik-crete in a pond. What is the difinitive, once and for all answer to this question. I say where someone was making an underwater light with quickcrete and no one questioned. P.S....

I was think about the bottomdrains. In the pond I have now I have plenty of hornwort and Anacharis. The new pond will have bottondrains. Will this stuff get sucked up in the drains and plug up? Should I leave it out? Its floating plants. Priss

......came home from work the other morning and 4 adult shubunkins had disappeared. No trace of them on the perimeter of the inground fiberglass pool or on the bottom. Two days later, the other 3 adults are gone. Only survivors - a 5 year old koi (huge) and 4 shubunkin yearlings hiding...

Just need to know what kind of salt to buy, my local pond store sells jars for 20.00 each. There has to be a cheaper alternative, I just don't know what. Can I use un iodized table salt? Water softener salt? Thanks

I did a stupid thing: there is a big 3 acre-ish pond by my house. Yesterday I went to Lowes and got 3 water lilies, tied them each to a big stone and tossed the 3 packages into the pond hoping they will grow. But the lily broke away from the confinement and float up in the middle of the pond. ...

It had to happen.... after having 5 cats, 40 odd fish, 3 turtles... jealousy got the better of me, and we went to the dogs. Our newest watergarden addition can be seen he http://www.wide-o.net/patsy%5Fmarch/ She (12 weeks old), named Patsy (one of our cats was already called Edina) fell into...

I was given a tropical pond plant by a friend who got it from a friend who go it.... we don't know what is! I don't see it on the plant websites or pond magazines. It resembles a large Amaryllis (has a bulb) but has larger flowers and more per head - otherwise you can mistake it for that plant. ...

hey all got the pond together and it's ready to show. 300 gallons, it measures about 7' x 3' x 2' deep and took two solid days to hand dig. it's amazing how much dirt is in a small hole (the wife got a few new flower beds in the process). am using a pondmaster 950 with the discharge split to a...

Hello all, I have a few questions and hope someone might be able to help. I have a Beckett pump, forgot the rating, but its outlet is 1.5 inch. I've read that you need to push the water through 3 inch pipes. So if I use adapters I can go from 1.5 to 3 inch. Would this be ok for the pump, would...

Hi All; Just discovered that we have a leak (must be pretty good size) in our 22 ft. stream. Any ideas on how we might find it? Thanks

Hello, Thought i'd make a newbie post where i'll be posting!! i'm 16 and me/my parents have 2 ponds linked via a water fall. we have lots of lovely fishies and just today have bought 7 ko 2-3inches!! 4 ghost and 3 koi. we also have a 7 inch Koi which is a lovely golden colour and has pin

Hello My name is josé margarido. I'm portuguese. I make water fountains All hand made All in stone My site: www.fontesdecorativas.com

Should I repot them now before they start to grow or wait till they start? http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

I've got the tetra 2" retrofit bottom drain installed now but it's not really cutting it. I'm going to replace it with a 4" drain but want to save some cash. Any suggestions on what item I can use for the dome? One idea I guess would be to use a black, round trash can lid, but I doubt it'll...

What is the recommended treatment for the following: Fish - Goldfish Symptoms - Grey/black fuzz on skin; fish lethargic Water temp - 45 F Out of 25 fish about 5 seem to have some degree of this fungus stuff. Thanks so much for your help,

Can I get Kenco's site please? I can't find the link. Priss

Last summer a lady bullfrog snuck into the frog bog. I fear she ate up all the tree frogs I'd adopted as eggs from jj's ponds. I spotted her as Fall came on. We had a wonky winter and some real awful weather and I was sure that she couldn't have survived as I would have sworn the frog bog had...

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Hi all, I filled up the half barrel with water, placed a water lilly inside, some oxygenator plants, and the Obedient Plant is standing by until I get the right bricks. In order to not encourage disease carrying mosquitos, I've read and heard of a number of ways to do this. Fish, pumps,...