I need to secure the folds of a EPDM liner. This is NOT a matter of joining two pieces, just eliminating a flap. Can rubber cement be used instead of that expensive joining tape? If I had it all to do over, I would have scrapped that new piece of EPDM in favor of a factory-made, drop-in...

We are in zone 5. My pond is up and running but gets uglier every day. Algae is building. The water temperature is 50 F and the fish are moving about regularly. With no plants there seems to be no hope of controlling algae. Are there any plants that will grow and remove nutrients while the...

I have 8 tiger barbs that I bought about 2 months ago. They were very small when I got them, their body size was about 3/4" or less. They are growing very fast as they are now about 1 1/2" to 1 3/4". Sometimes they will break up into groups and lock lips, also their black turns to a strange green...

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:48:11 GMT, Spike "Voluntary Mutant" Jackson wrote: "Tourniquet" wrote in message ... SweetNNasty really showed her true colors with that post. She has a history of starting flame wars at rec.pond

I have a Sequence external pump that is going to be below ground level. There is a Sequence priming pot on the intake side and I have rotated the disharge so it exits parallel to the gound. A couple of questions: What type of boxes or enclosures are people using? Should the priming pot be inside...

I need to divide my water lilies, and also need to pot a half-dozen marginal plants that I ordered from a mail-order firm. Do I need to use the specialized "aquatic planting soil", or will regular top soil - the kind you can buy at Lowe's or Home Depot - work just as well?

Some of you might hav noticed my sig has changed, with the question regarding water quality? Well, guess what? If you've got a suspended algae problem, especially with low fish load, high plant load, you'd better check your pH. Since cleaning out, the lilypond has no fish, the frogs haven't...

Im in Toronto, Canada, the water is just above 30F and the air is warming up, when is the best time to start running the water features?

Okay, I have two openings on the water filter in my pond--one is attached to the tubing that pumps water over my mini (3" max?) waterfall, and the other was just shooting water out in the pond. So I go to Home Depot and get a kind of "spitter" that shoots water up in three beautiful streams that...

Hi I went out to my pond the other day and thought one of my older goldfish was dead,as it was lying on it's side,but when I went to pick it out it swam off,I have been watching it and when it swims it is ok,but as soon as it stops it turns on it's side,obviously it has something wrong but can...

I live in the DFW area of texas and I want to purchase or beg some Golden orfe. I found them from one online place for 2.25 each for 4" size and I want 5 or so. I don't need them to be full grown and would be happy with some much smaller ones. See My...

Hi I have recently moved into a new house with a fish pond in the garden but have no idea about how to keep the fish healthy and living. Could anyone here give me some advice on what would be right for my fish, what is wrong/right with the pond and any other ideas ect that might be useful. A few...

Im moving to a townhome that only has a 18' x 22' yard. I was thinking of getting one of those hard liners and building a raised koi poind. I want to get at least 3 - 5 koi what size of a liner do i need. remember I want one that is already molded. Also if some one can point me to a site that...

For sale on eBay: HozeLock Cyprio Vorton Ultra Violet Clarifier model 1552 (Vorton 2000) Keeps ponds up to 2000 gallons free of algae. This clarifier has never been used - brand new condition in the original box with instruction manual and sizing adapters to fit most standard pump hose

My pond is about 8' by 20' and up to 5' deep, but it suffers from soft edges. The soil is very loose and soft and so my edges keep crumbling. This makes putting edging stone around the pond a real challenge. Any suggestions? I've thought about putting a ring of concrete around the edge of the...

"Drew Cutter" wrote in message ... How do you add a air manifold and tap to a 55 gal drum (plastic) ? Pictures ? I made a tap 2 different ways. The first way is kind of crummy and doesn't as well as I hoped (but good enough) Method 1

Wow, that's kind of hard to believe. How big is your pond? Joe On 3/20/04 10:35 AM, "Drew Cutter" wrote: Apparently , their isn't a commercial skimmer for my water garden.

Wow! Someone has been smoking waaaaay too much algae! AL wrote in message ... When You Hear The Heavy Accent & The Poor Phone Connection... HANG UP!! - I think you must know what I'm talking about. Together, a heavy foreign

At Seattle's annual Flower & Garden show I bought the very first 2 plants for my water garden. One striped variagated canna and one pickerel rush. They both had a couple inches of green sprout coming out of the wood chips they were packed in. So I put them each in a pot of their own in...

Is this a new way to cook fish??