A friend of mine (local to me in Reading, Berkshire, UK) keeps finding a number of dead frogs / toads in his pond - sometimes 6 or 7 every morning - my first thoughts were that they could be drowning but he assures me he's seen some come & go quite easily from the water (steep sided pond) Any...

I recently purchased a home with a few acres in the country. Last year when I bought it, it had a small farm pond of about 50 x 30 x 5 and showing that at one time was much bigger. This year, it is now 10 x 8 x 2 even in the wettest of weather. I am wanting to recoupe the original size and state of...

...... and I'm taking a coffee break. All the koi from this pond are in a 500g tank behind the house with the 7 koi that need new homes. Two filters and an aerator will be running 24/7 until the work on the berm is finished. All the plants are in kiddy-pools and all are covered in...

I visited a couple of web sites pricing food for this season (Aqua Mart for Hakari Staple & Western Pond for Sho Koi) and noticed a jump in prices. Between the two, Western Pond was offering 10 lbs of Sho Koi for $56.98, including shipping costs. This seems about $7.00 higher than last year. What...

I have a 300 gallon stock tank that I'm keeping as a quarentine/hospital tank in case my pond fish need it. I'd like to put some plant shelves in. Is cedar or other regular wood okay, or might these contain substances that would be toxic to the fish? Thanks.

Hi, I want to buy a pond filter but before I go shopping I like to knowledge myself of what is required before a salesman may sell me down the river with lots of unecessary expense etc. I've been browsing the shop websites and ebay but I'm getting confused, it seems some, if not all, filters...

Whoops, I forgot to mention the size. These fish are all around 12 to 15" in length minus their tails. Two are ghost koi, two are blue, and the rest are yellow or orange. One is scaleless. -- Koi-Lo.... Frugal ponding since 1995. Aquariums since 1952. My Pond & Aquarium...

I took pictures this morning of all three lilies. The second was another mini clone of the first. The 3rd is a huge white one. Usually the yellows bloom around the time the minis bloom. This time a white one beat them to it! I have 7 FREE koi to give away. Four are short fin and 4 are...

My three year old pond is thick with lilys whose leaves have a lot of tiny black insects on them. They first showed up last Fall and have renewed themselves on this years crop. The bugs are about the size of the head on a sewing pin. What are they and how can I eliminate them? I have a...

Hi my pump has died on me i was wondering if the clean water submersible pumps with float switch are any good or shell i just go for a normal pond pump thanks

The Green thumb Alliance Welcomes you to join. This is an online garden club. go to the folowing link for the green thumb allinace homepage. http://geocities.com/sjc_ollectors/ The Green thumb alliance has five google groups in its...

I've seen some posts in here about times to feed fish, but can't find them now. Temp. was mentioned too, is this air or water temp? I'm away from the house 12 hours a day, so can only feed either 6 in the morning, or 6 in the evening. Which would be best? Pond is planted up now, and filter running,...

I give credit to "snooze" for this idea and it works great. Use a mason jar as your enclosure. Drill a hole in the centre of the metal top where your wire will go through. Use a 20 Watt halogen bulb and if you wish add some coloured filter at the bottom of the jar (where the light will shine...

Our waterliles are full of buds! Many will be blooming in a week if the weather stays steady. The weather has been warm and sunny for the past few days. This weekend we'll start the repairs on the 800g pond. I hope we wont need a new liner but can reuse the Tetra 60 mil one in there now. The...

China specifically raise all kinds of live foods like blood worms, black worms to feed the pond raised fish. they power feed them species appropriate foods to get them large very fast. Ingrid That reminded me of something I wanted to bring up. So I changed the Subject to reflect change. THIS...

Hi, I've just finished building my swimming pond (50 m3 swimming area with 13 m3 biofilter with lava rock). Construction is concrete brick walls with EPDM rubber liner. Since it collects quite some debris (leaves and stuff) which sinks to the bottom before the surface flow drives it to the...

I am trying to use a 4" flexible corrugated plastic pipe to siphon from my pond into a small pool and then to a stream bed. I have no problem getting the flow going, but after a few days the flow rate goes down. Then after about a week it stops altogether. I did not need to use quite the capacity...

Have you ever try to take a bath with fish to exfoliate. In Japan there are big lines for this thing. Check this video out, you will not believe it: http://www.groundhog.tv/apps/editor/staticplayer.jsp?clip=1145476332291.wmv"img src="

I like to make a small waterfall. Are there any diagrams I can find? Any help would be appreciated.

Dear all, We have a new large-ish wildlife pond, 10m (30 feet or so) roughly circular, and about 5 feet deep in the middle. We have a problem with the local soil being heavy red clay- as a result the water is permanently a greyish-brown colour and water can't penetrate to plants. I've tried...