My mom saw a hawk up in the tree at the edge of the yard today. She said it gave her a real mean look. The question is should I worry about it getting the fish in my pond. And if so, can anybody think of a good solution to keep it away from my pond. My daschunds keep the cats away from pond but I...

How well do mosquito fish and koi play with each other? My current pond system lay out is like this. The pump sucks water out of the pond, and dumps the water into the veggie filter + settling pond. From here a venturi nozzle mixes water and air, and sends it to the biofilter. Finally the water is...

I see many post regarding a plant called anacharis. Is this a recommended plant to have in your pond? Does it spread fast, does it need upkeep? How do you plant it? Does it float or do you have to plant it in something and how many plants would you need? So many questions but where I'm at I don't...

Well, I tried it again. I put on the goggles and snorkel and cruised our pond for about a half hour. I highly recommend it if you can fit and if your spouse/family will not ridicule you too much. The koi paths make better sense from an underwater perspective! After a few minutes, the fish just...

I recently bought a 5.5' x 15' liner from justliners.com to build my waterfall and was pleased to say the least with the price($23.95 + shipping $8.00 UPS), it was delivered in approx. 4 days and the quality is more than I expected. A week or two before I visited my local (I wouldn't call them a...

I've just finished setting it up, at least I think I have. It's about 18ft x 16ft approx triangle and about 34 inches deep. I am thinking about Koi, but for the moment I will stick to goldfish until I have more experience with pond management. Does anybody know how to attract dragonflies to my...

Hi all! The ponds doing great this year except this last week I noticed (stuff) on the lilly pads and when I brushed it off I noticed tiny bugs crawling on the water. the next day they were back on the pads. Are they a problem and if so are there any tricks to get rid of them. ...

Mergenthaler, my ten-year-old red-eared slider, went exploring to find a good place to lay her eggs and had a fatal accident. She managed to climb up a wall and fell. I am bereft. Gabrielle

It puzzles me why walmarts, lowes, home depot 'dump' hundreds of glitzy boxed water lilies in stores at cheap prices, there obviously isn't much money to be made as they are deliberately pricing them to be 'easy' for anyone to buy on impulse.... Nor can there be that many new ponders in that...

thank you for the flashbacks you are using exactly the same rhetoric that was used back in the 60's makes me feel young again --

No not beer... I bought a "Chawan Basu Dwarf Lotus" from ebay on May 10th and it went into the pond as a bare root with one furled 2" dia. leaf. I have read over and over on this group that you won't get a blossom until the second year. The lotus started putting out floater leaves and then...

My bro-in-law has a friend that is moving, and is adopting her fish out, I guess because she does not trust the new owners. He brought some over for me yesterday. They were in a bucket and all were gasping. I grabbed a 33 gallon rubbermaid, and filled it with pond water, and we moved them over....

I could use a lot of anacharis (3500gal pond) to help fight off green pea soup which comes and goes. Most of my potted plants were decimated by raccoons last year and the year before, and I can't afford to replace many this year. Soooooooo, I was wondering if anyone had a wheelbarrow full of...

I have freshly unearthed rocks with red clay stains. I tried scrubbing with a stiff brush but the red is stubborn. Anyone deal with this before, what did you use to clean them?

I would send you some if i had any but i do not. Good luck, though. 3 00:43:18 +0000 (UTC), "boris" wrote: hello everyones, i have post this in some aquaria with no much success and really hope more luck here. i am studying biology and my passion mostly reside in fresh...

Hello all, My wife and I have a young, ~8 inch Sanke (we think), that has changed color recently. He is probably around a year old or so (we are the 2nd owner of the house/pond, so we don't know for sure). Basically, he has lost almost all of his orange and black markings and is now almost pure...

I am considering using the tetrapond Xavan liner instead of a Butyl liner. The main reason for this is the weight issue, overall I going to need about 9m x 8m of liner. Has anyone had experience of Xavan, in particular they claim that given its strength it doesn't need an underlay, this helps keep...

Well on paper my stream idea looked good. In actuality it still looked pretty good, in practicality after hitting 105+ for the last several days, and over 90's for the few weeks before that, the stream seems to be my culprit for loosing 3-6" of water per day! So to that end I have moved my upflow...

I have been reading about a experimental koi spawning on the british koi clubs website. but his experiment was totaly controled has anyone raised baby koi in an outdoor kiddie pool and if so how much growth did the fry show and how fast I dont know whether t leave them in the kp or buy a small...

Hi Everyone, Somewhere I thought I read where using granite in water falls is not good. Anyone have any experience or thoughts? Thank You Joan