Anyone ever hear of an "Algae Bar" consisting of a short tubular rod like bar with copper ends and silver middle? It is advertised to be one solution to the problem of pond algae. I bit and purchased one. After about a week my water did clear up and has remained relatively clear since. I am not...

For those of you in places in-land yet still affected by Hurricanes.... My son is in mid-TX, how much rain/wind do you think they'll get if Emily hits TX's central coast line? Anyone on here have to worry about that, live close to the coast line? Where is Brett Rowley's fish farm? ~jan ~Power...

I read something here a while ago about plants (Water Lettuce) and Algae exchanging chemical attacks. Is there anything to this or is it just an old wives tail? The reason I ask is that my Water Hyacinth is dying off, it's all turning brown and mushy around the edges. The leaves that are...

I have one koi that is sitting on the bottom of the pond. Up until now, no issues. He is about 12", pond is healthy and has had no issues. It is warm today - is this something I should be concerned with?

I've a three and half year old pond and is mature now with lots of plants, lillies and fish. The water is great and clear. Currently I've noticed that it has tonns of snails. I do not know where they come from. I even noticed a lot of 'em in skimmer net and am also worried it might get into the...

what is a acceptable amount of water loss--due to evaporation etc? Trying to figure out if I have a leak.... Pond is in So Cal, where we get hot days over 98 and cold nights below 70, so the ponds goes through some big temp swings. ANyway the pond has a 3 to 4ft waterfall into a 5 by 4 2ft deep...

To tell the truth, I'm a bit of a newbie myself, but all my fish survived the Winter. We actually gained a couple. I put in an aquarium aerator (the pond is about 1000 gallons) which is on all the time - Summer and Winter. The benefits of this $15 item are many. Obviously there is always plenty...

Maybe a different trap. We once used one and used ham lunch meat. Worked great. Or call your county extension agent, you may be having a banner year in your county this year. kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com this week ~ the rat-tail maggot!

Welcome to rec.ponds! You are welcome here if you really want to know about ponds, fish, plants, and all things water garden-related! However, crossposting, for the most part is very, very UNwelcome -- and, dang, where did I leave that pesky cross-posting filter, anyways? Anne

Hello, This is my pond's second year. It is somewhere around 800 gallons. It has a skippy type filter with no plants which flows into a kiddie poll plant filter which then goes back into the pond. It has a very low fish load and two large bullfrogs. The fish and frogs are thriving. Everything...

My Minnows spawned last week and now it lookes like I have a few hundres new editions to the pond! their are baby minnows everywhere! Good to see the pond is growing well enough to support such growth, I just set it up in March of this year! My Tadpoles are also almost Frogs! Most have both their...

Couple weeks ago a friend of my daughter asked if I'd take the red-ear slider they got from someone else. I have a 15x25 pond averaging around 20" deep, around 1,350 US gallons.. They were keeping this 7" turtle in a 10-gallon glass aquarium, I felt sorry for it and said "yes". The little booger...

Is there a natural oil in the Mag-Drive pumps? I have a Supreme 500 that I got last year and I just found a small slick (covering about 1/5th of the pond, sort of contained by the lily pads). Everything seems to be working fine. Water temp 82F. ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

On alt.free.newsservers, in , " wrote: you had an encounter with Carol I'm sure. No harm done. Didn't give her any information she didn't already have.

Thanks to all Posters old and new. I've been reading this group for a while while building my first pond. I finished it a couple of months ago. Its a 6ftx6ft 300 gal liner pool. Half raised, half dug in to the ground. Following advice from various posts I didn't have any problems and my 10...

I took some photos of the new plant ring. http://radioheaven.homestead.com/Cement_Pond1.html Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Happy ponding, Ron

My question is this or perhaps it should be questions. There are natural ponds all over the place, many with fish in them. No one cleans them, watches the PH, the ammonia, or anything else. Some have inlets and outlets but most do not so the only fresh water they get is from rain. So how do...

I took several old tomato cages. With wire cutters I cut them up, twisted them, interlocked them, and anchored them with wire and fishing line to 4 heavy flagstones. The stones are also set to create crevaces. My idea was to keep the racoons from sweeping their arms through the water and herding...

I redone my pond for the 3rd time in 1 year. I keep making it a little bigger.. You know how that goes. Anyways I bought a bigger linner and shoveled out a bigger hole. I didnt measure or anything but I would guess its now about 7' wide and 5' front to back and about 20" deep. When we bought the...

Welcome! We are still here -- even if it seems this newsgroup has been hijacked! We welcome questions, etc -- answers, even! Anne