I've just built a new backyard pond and after about a week the water suddenly turned murky green. From what I've gathered from reading some of the posts here I guess the problem is single cell susspended algae. Before I start putting plants and fish into the pond, can anyone steer me in the right...

Have 1200 gallons with a +/-900 gph pump. What size UV light should I be looking at? I've been told both 25 and 40w. Are there brands that are suggested over others?

Got all the stuff for my new pond (water garden?) the other day. Filter, skimmer, liner, pump. Trouble is I don't think I have the brains to get it all together and working. Although the pond was dug a year ago it has been raining so much that I haven't been able to get much done. And the...

My very small pond is located under some large walnut trees and the leaves that fall cause the water to be very dark. Other than covering the pond with netting, does anyone have some other suggestion?

I have a large Papyrus that I had to cut back and I am going to divide. Does anyone local want part of this, I bet it will make four plants. I am in Clear Lake area. -- o_o_o_o /| ,, |¯¯¯L --O|||||||O- ()_)¯()_) ¯¯¯¯¯ )_)

Well, I did it again. I hadn't gotten around to installing the bulkheads in my pump box (say Rubbermaid container) and we had alot of rain. The ground (clay) got saturated and needless to say my pump got flooded. This was the third time. Pulled the pump, a week later got around to fixing the...

I've been feeding my goldfish flake food, and I've trained them to look for it beneath the surface. I did this to try to orient them away from the surface, so that they would be better protected from predators. I put some flake food between my fingers and hold it beneath the surface so it doesn't...

Have a small pond and for the first time have seen frogs eggs. We have lots of frogs around without having to have additional tadpole and frogs. I don't know where they normally lay their eggs, but we've always had a couple frogs at night and early morning around the pond. Are the tadpoles alright...

I have not had a lot of time to be back by the pond lately. In fact, I still need to find the leak in the stream, but my most important task right now, is that I have needed to repot some stuff for awhile, and have not done it. Should I just wait until spring, or would it be cool to do it now...

Yikes - upon further examination it turns out that I have not 2 but 4 fish in my little 'bird pool'. So, the little guys will have to come in for the winter (I've got a 55 gallon w/one catfish in it that shall become their home). A few questions...because I'm going to slightly expand... (and I...

It was posted in another message about someone who saw bubbles coming off of algae in their pond. I saw the same thing with some algae on the background of a concrete aquarium that I have outside curing. I have also seen this in planted aquariums where little bubbles were coming off of the leaves...

I am looking at an Aqua UV clarifier because it has a 2" inlet and outlet. I have a low pressure high volume pump running about 1800 GPH capable of 4300 with no head. I am working on reducing all restriction do to pipe size. This is the only company I can find that offers an inlet and outlet of...

For everything but the water lilies and lotus, I bare root everything and pot them in gravel. They are able to get the nutrients from the water and though the koi take some of the rocks, they aren't rooting in soil and clouding the water for...

Hi all, I just found this newsgroup and had a few questions. I guess I should attempt to describe the ponds on my property: there's an upper and lower pond, seperated by a concrete dam (which I'm interested in stonefacing, but more on that some other time) and fed by a stream. The whole thing...

Dkat: I do not have any containers that would accomodate even 1/4 of the water. I have been runnig only the water fall since the end of June. I have 4 waterlilies and many other plants in the pond with the fish. The plants (including a 5 foot tall Iris) are spectacular in size. I think...

I have two large ponds, One pond is higher than the other (only slightly) and runs into the other pond. There is then a pump that takes the water through a filter then back to the top pond. My water have been tested for Amonia, Nitrate and Nitite, and all read zero. The strange problem is the...

There are any number of materials that will work as bio media, but for what you describe as what you want, I think the window screening would probably be best. It is dark in color, so it won't show against the liner. It can be made into pillows by sewing a pillow case of the screen to stuff...

Howdy... I have the 70gallon monster... I plan to pretty much empty the pondlet, mess with the plants, vacuum the sludge off of the bottom, not clean the sides, and refill using tap water and declor and return the goldfish and plants. Then in a couple of months i will sink the WH, and bring in...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask Will livestock water tanks work for fish or turtles, or are the materials they are made of potentially toxic? I would think that that livestock water tanks would be made out of innert material but I wouldn't want to assume that. I do know that...

I spend yesterday pulling cattails out of my relatively small pond (~7X7'). I probably lost the best of my hardy water lilies in doing so and now things look more than a bit bare (I threw water hyacinths from the upper pond into the lower just so the fish have some shelter). While the cattails...