We have recently cleaned out our pond and pulled out some plants as the pond was overrun with iris' and lillies. Before this our koi were swimming about, feeding well and were almost tame, ie: approaching surface and fedding well and sociable. Now however, they have "sunk" to the back of the pond...

HI there I have a oase biotec screenmatic set and to the right of it near where the uv screws on to it there are long white tubes with like stone in them. Sorry I cant be more specific. I heard from someone that you are supposed to dip them in salt water anually cos there something to do with...

I am very new to this site and new to gardening overall, and therefore apologise for this very basic question. I have quite a large garden and am thinking of building a largeish pond (22m x 17m approx 430,000 litres using internate calculation tools) My question is how do I fill it with water? (as...

Does anyone know where I can buy a pre-drilled flat bottomed urn . Currently, the pipe from my filter goes into the urn, to be poured into my formal pond (9' x6'). Unfortunately the urn has been cracked. A few years ago urns like this were in every 'water garden centre'. Now they seemed to have...

My clay pond dries out in summer. I want to plant it up. Any ideas for suitable plants. -- PreMonier

The top skimmed surface of my pond is in poor health and I an now considering either re skimming with concrete or applying a fibrglass coat. If skimming with concrete what is the best product/mix. If I go the fibre glass route will it adhere to the painted surface of the pond? --

I have Hyancth(sp?)parrot feather, water lily.,lily pads.How do they winter over? I was told the hyancth will die off,I was wondering if I can bring them indoors and let them live in a bucket of water? Kathy

Just designing my first pond. My plan is to build a largish pond using the Atlantis Pacific rigid pond liner 1400. From the research I have done there seems to be three types of pond which I could call Koi, Goldfish, and Natural. If i have this correct. I want my pond to be natural as possible -...

Hi, Im new here, this is my first question, please be gentle I have what looks like orange scrambled egg on top of the pond, it is a well established pond of about 8 years, ive never seen this before, and as fast as i take it off it comes back. Is it some sort of algae? How can I get rid of it?

We have just had to clear out the wild life pond as there was actually so little room in it for water as the Bog bean and something else had grown so much they had filled the pond completely. In doing so we discovered that a rather invasive grass has punctured the liner with its roots. The holes...

Hi, I excavated a 5 x 3m pond last April, lined it and filled it, bought masses of oxygenating plants and potted up some pond plants but now one year on, despite clearing all debris in the autumn and again this week, the water is brown, stagnant and all but a handful of oxygenators are dead. I...

What kind of fish should I stock it with? I'd like to use Tilapia but not sure if they will live here. I'm in southern Alabama.

"zad2110" wrote Hi, I am fairly new to ponds and fish keeping. My step father and I built our pond two summers ago and last summer it started leaking and we were unable to find the leak. This spring or summer we are planning on completely redoing our pond and try and do a better job of making...

Hello, I live in Missouri and I have a small plastic pond tub approx.35 gal. There are no fish,( well there was but they disappeared late summer we suspect largebirds). We do have a few plants in containers and a few floating. How do I winterize the pond to prevent the plastic liner from...

Hi, live Jersey. I have a 12x7x28" deep pond liner type. All was fine till the beginning of Dec. then started to leak. Is there any trick or something to look for to tell where the leak is. I can't understand how all the sudden it leaks out. I know it is on the bottom somewhere. Thanks

Someone gave me a bunch of fluorite from their old aquarium and I was wondering if I could use it as a substrate for my pond along with river rock? Seems its used a lot for planted aquariums so I think it should be ok in my pond which just has goldfish and koi in it. Cheers, Chris

I have a koi pond that has installed a holder for a UV light. I have created a diagram of the system as well as taken some photos. You can find them he http://picasaweb.google.com/mentorbeery/ Click on the 2009_03_08 folder to get to the content. The first picture is a diagram that shows...

On Jan 24, 7:47*pm, zad2110 wrote: Hi, I am fairly new to ponds and fish keeping. My step father and I built our pond two summers ago and last summer it started leaking and we were unable to find the leak. This spring or summer we are planning on ...

Koi fish breeding, need help? I want to ask about koi fish breeding. I always face the same problem when I do breed my koi fishes. I use the method of isolating a female fish with a male in a separate tank. The process of spawning happens normally and the female lays her egg. But the problem is...

hi group ive heard of fertilizer tabs that you only need to use once a season- can anyone suggest vendor that sells in large quanity. i need 4-500 or more thanks john