Dont know if some of you may remember me posting. I was one of the ones that had dirt in my water. Well we had to drain it out, got out all the rocks in the pond and set it back up again. In the meantime we transferred our Comets over to a holding tank and lost 3 of them due to the...

How big are rosey reds? Never seen one, but by the looks of your message I would never want over "1". I'm already over stocked! Kc "Sam Hopkins" wrote in message ... Looks like the 1,000 rosey reds I stocked in my pond...

I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our pond...

I have been contacted by Marion, who has a 20 acre pond covered in Lilly pads, and has been for 4 years. Each year the pond is getting shallower as a result of the plant material. What is the best way of removing them? (organic options preferable..) Kevin --

Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize without getting IN the pond? Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer. All my old...

Is old carpeting an adequate underliner when the soil is permeated with broken shale? I have been working on this !@#$ pond for almost a year now. Got the hole dug last September via backhoe. We have groundhog shale, so even planting a shrub is backbreaking work. Then it started to rain and...

Just to be on the safe side I would dechlor/dechloramine the water. k30a yearly brother website posting http://www.30acreimaging.com/

What is the fastest, safest way to lower the pH. My pH is registering at 9.01 with KH of 89.5. Go figure. Please advise...thanks. Kathy

Man you'd think I was bragging about my grandkids. Sheesh... Anyway My lotus has bloomed. A Chawan Basu Dwarf. Check it out http://community.webshots.com/user/rhino218 rhino

Ian, Just in case a net isn't workable or aesthetically pleasing, many are finding the Scarecrow Sprinkler works just as well. Read about it below and then do a search to find it locally. ~ jan http://www.km01.com/index.html See my ponds and filter design:

Wendy, Thanks for the response about gambusia and koi babies. Hmmm...Gambusia...we have them in abundance. That could be the problem. If I could catch a few of the koi and put them in my long veggie filter, I could perhaps produce a crop. Too hard to get the gambusia out of the main...

If anyone within driving distance wants some nice, hardy, brilliant orange/red pond comets with long flowing fins, drop me an email and we'll have a fish rodeo. I feel the need to lighten my fish load. Let me know. Ann

"UTVOLVET84" wrote in message ... I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have several varieties of ornamental grass around my backyard water feature. Recently the grasses have been falling over, especially on the periphery...

this can't be right,, can it??? after reading about 'acid' rain, I figured I should test the water, since we had tONS of rain water this week. I usual test in afternoon, (ok ,I am NOt a morning person) but these results look weird. KH = 250ppm GH=143ppm

$3500 for a freakin' fish that lives outside? UNH UH! Did anyone here do anything that crazy when buying fish? I am attached to my 12 cent feeder! On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:25:05 -0600, johnrutz wrote:

No pix online. I have no idea where I would post them. I will put my husband/computer guru on that issue. I know posting pix here is a no-no. NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Just Me "Koi" Newsgroups: rec.ponds Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:07 AM Subject: NJ. How was the pond tour?

Plastic netting works keeping predators out. I put lettuce in the pond this morning for the guys to munch on, upon returning from church I saw a piece hung up in the lip of the puddle that goes to the lower pond and proceeded to stick my hands down under the netting to get it loose. As I stood I...

This post is partly to share my joy - you've all been here. :) I built a pond last year. All my information came via this group btw, so this little pond is partly yours. This year, I put in a veggie filter. My original plan didn't work so well, but I finally got a solution that seems to be...

We have been enjoying watching a small hive of bees living in an old bird house box on our deck. (Last year a mouse lived in there.) They are large yellow and black bees. Several of them very large and others smaller. Since they picked view property they spend every morning on the outside of the...

I had a aquamax 5500 and a biosys 10 filter with a bitron 25 uv stolen from my pond last night. I don't want to just go out and replace it as it will just get stolen again. My intention is to make a steel box for the filter unit but the pump is proving difficult. Any one know of a non-submerged...