I've been keeping the pond lights (two 20 watts) on at night hoping to keep the water temperature from getting too cold. Here in the Sacramento Valley it's been getting into the 30's lately. But I'm wondering if this is blinding the fish to potential predators at night and possibly attracting...

hello, I have an indoor pond approximetly 5 months old...water chemistry is perfect. Recently my shubunkins and koi starting acting strange (crowding together, skiddish). A pond expert reccomended a medication for parasites and water changes. Both the medicine and water changes...

After thre years, I have finally cleaned the bottom of our pond. The water is very clean. There is just this layer of grime that seems to build up. Seems like the internal flow deposits it along one side. It gets stirred every couple days as I scoop out leaves. Anyway, I borrowed a 5.5 hp 16...

I have been lurking here for quite a while and I remember someone posted a source for information on how to make fake rocks. Could you please post it again? TIA Carol

Mike Patterson wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:25:57 +1100, "Ken Russell" wrote: Sounds fine, as long as you like BBQd fish

Well, after months of computer problems, ISP problems, family and pet illnesses and deaths, ... I'm back!! Talk about withdrawal symptoms -- really miss this group when I can't get to it as often as I like. And now for the pond ... it's still there, LOL! I didn't get all the fall leaves out...

Should I be concerned? Fish are swimming around, not "sleeping". Approx. 300 gal x 28" deep max pond. 2 @ 6-8" koi and 5 small goldfish. Fish not fed since late Oct. as is my understanding should not be fed once water temp is less than 50 F. Has been unusually mild here in Whitby, Ontario i.e....

Tom, you mentioned high winds and swinging pipes of the windchimes. What is the concern regarding this? Hitting the house? Or is there actually damage to the pipes if they get to swinging too much? ~ jan :) ~ jan

Dear Mila, You have my sympathy and condolences. I too lost a 14-year-old cat, my beloved Pewee, also hit by a car, just about 4 years ago. I still miss her! The only thing I can suggest, is to get another cat, from a kitten - not as a replacement, but as a new companion. I found that after...

Last year when I joined the group, I found Nov-Jan to have more OT then OnT. I've noticed lately that there are a growing number of OT's and some posters are starting to talk about it. I figured I'd be a bit pro-active about OT's. On rec.ponds, as the season grows cold and our ponds become skating...

I've got a 400-gallon round galvanized tank (with liner) that I use for quarantine purposes. I'd like to use some sort of bottom drain setup for it but I'm not sure how to go about it. Not sure if it's a good idea to drill a hole through the side for pipe access. Any suggestions? thx

Hi, For a 1300 gallon pond with 4 full sized koi, how powerful a pump will I need to get for filtration purposes? Thanks, Han.

I was wondering if anybody knew of a newsgroup or discussion group to talk about large ponds (+1/2 acre). I am trying to start out a good sport fish base and thought it would be great if I could get some advice from those who have been there and done that. Thanx

I have a 1200 gallon pond in Miami Beach. I'm 1/2 block from the bay and 3 blocks from the ocean with two canals in between. So one would think that we're protected from much cold. Temps went into high 40's last week for maybe two days. These lows were not long lived for these two days as well....

The pond is 2 feet deep ~ 500gal. I put about 15-20 mosquito fish in it this fall. It's a new pond so I don't have anything else in it yet. Usually our low temps. this season in Seattle are around 40-45F degrees, but we've been having cold snaps where the pond has had a layer of ice on it for a...

Well, drat! Here SE WA is in the news and not a happy story. The Mad Moo Cow came from a farm not too far from where jj and k30a live. And it looks like both jj and k30a had ground beef from the plant that processed the poor cow. All ground meat is off the shelves at our stores, part of the...

we have moved into a new home that has a davey tagelus 150 pool filter and i was wondering on when do you know when to backwash the filter the pressure gauge you can still read the numbers but there is no colour background. thanks for anyones help

My husband and I will be in Phoenix visiting friends from February 6-13. Our friends are new to the area so I'm looking for recommendations of things to see/do for the four of us---interesting tourist areas, public gardens, etc. Doesn't have to be in the immediate Phoenx area, just so we can get...

Wouldn't you know it. My ISP won't recognize default.html (or index or start) when using just the directory. Therefore I changed the filename to htm vice html. Now the link below will go to the directory. Sorry about doing this twice. Will work either way, now. -- J.D....

Hi folks! For those who may have visited my pages when I had the domain www.nrgy.com, I have put some of my stuff back up on the web at the address listed below in the sig line. If any have me listed as a link on their sites, I would appreciate the link being updated. Anybody who wants to be...