Ok, I have a lot of lilys with what looks like hail damage, but it is not. The damage looks like a hole with about 270 degrees of its circumference seperated from the lilly and a small portion that is still attached., sort of like a large hole that is punched in a paper but with a little portion of...

I am the guy who had the snake in my pond - thankfully it has (i think) moved on. However, one of my goldfish has the ("cone look") which I am led to believe is dropsy. I have bought some Interpret anti ulcer treatment from local pet shop. The fish doesn't seem too bad at the moment but do I leave...

To make a long story short, I have a small yard and therefore have a small very upright structure built out of stone for my waterfall. It is very square and I put a liner behind the face layer of stone (all the stone are large rectangles) and underneath the top layer. Rodents ate throw the liner...

New disclaimers would just get written into the filter. Look at one of your user. Her accounts thru trasher can be identified and traced, and then filtered due to abuse and spam. these are accounts that has been traced.

Hi, I'm a long term lurker but now need a bit of help. I have a small pond in the UK. The small goldfish have been quite happy until about 2 months ago when all bar one began to die. All displayed what looked like white 'dust' on their scales and their fins began to rot away. I bought about 5...

Anyone here have a blog or know of one that you especially like? I want to make a link to it on my web page. Ruth Kazez

Have snakes, don't want to use nets? Here ya go: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fencesnake.asp ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

Since I pulled all goldies and wakins out of the wifes numerous half barrel setups, and have all kinds of tropicals in them now, jumpers have gotten to be a problem......so I had to make a barrier around the edge to keep em in.......I had used 1/2 x 1/2 inch plastic mesh, but it always looks ruff...

Just for the record, about a month ago I put six water hyacinths in my pond to hopefully counteract algae. The pond was thick with algae and no matter what I did it kept increasing. Since putting the water hyacinth there is almost no algae but I sure will have to begin culling water hyacinth.

Hello all, can anybody give us their ritual of mid summer maintenance to the pond. I have a bio filter but I'm not sure if I should clean it since it is established with good "bio". Also does anybody have a good method of cleaning the inside of water pump tubes that get coated with "guck" during...

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Talking to local pond builder who only uses an 'undergravel' type filter in his ponds - like a large version of an aquarium setup. Does this sound a bit wacky? - everything I read talks about having an outside biofilter setup. Thanks

My greenwater finally died off, but now I have brown water. I built one of those "milk crate" submerged filter, driven by our large pond spitter pump, but noticed this am, the fish all in a cluster, doing the air sucking thing. Does the dead algae reduce oxygen levels? I turned the bubblers on...

I have a few turtles in the pond, most stay put but I have one bigger one who refuses to stay in the pond! I have found him about a dozen times buried in my flower beds. ANyway why does he continue to do this i know they hibernate but I would think since its summer that it cant be to cold! He eats...

Hi, I'm a long term lurker but now need a bit of help. I have a small pond in the UK. The small goldfish have been quite happy until about 2 months ago when all bar one began to die. All displayed what looked like white 'dust' on their scales and their fins began to rot away. I bought about 5...

I just finished sorting more of the koi fry from the GF fry. I can tell the diamond scaled fry, the mirror scaled and the Duitsi (sp?) from the regular metallic koi - but not which ones are the butterfly koi. Anyone have experience with this? At what age or size does that become...

My friends bought a house that has an approx. 500 gal brick pond with a waterfall, and some sort of closed external filter. After they cleaned the filter the fish in the pond started dieing. Some small, some large, they have five fish left and and some are very young and others are older. The...

Is anyone still feeding their GF and koi peas? There was a lot of talk about feeding peas a few years back. I picked up a can and tried to feed them to my fish. Only the rosy red minnows and fry would eat them. The adult GF and koi weren't much interested. The minnows and fry left the pea skins...

We started our pond last fall and the fish wintered over just fine. Today I finally got around to putting up some pictures. Our challenge was to convert a hugh above ground swiming pool into a pool and waterfalls. Pictures are at: http://members.tripod.com/~VideoDave/pool/pool.html Dave

I was looking at the above and noticed it says they must be installed "at least 1.5m from the pond". Would that be 'cos of the radio waves from the antennae, or just to stop it getting wet ? Peter