OK ...I am tired of my friends and family telling me why I don't have water lilies in my pond so I am hoping someone will help me out. I live in Canada (zone 5) so I didn't want the hassle of caring for these in the winter. What options do I have ? Buy them every year , put them in my garage...

Well, I was going to the store the other day, and saw something on a bit down the hill. I headed down there, and I found 2 black rat snakes about 4 ft long (or more) mating! We managed to catch the larger one (hopefully the female), and dropped her off at our local snake dropoff lake. So far...

Here is a problem I have not seen on here... We live in Mesa Arizona and it gets quite hot. The past few summers we have had, as I am sure everyone has, bees coming to the waterfall to have a drink and take water back to the hive. Of course we did not mind. This year, however, there are upwards...

We have some fish in the pond only because a friend moved and begged us to take them. There a a few goldfish and one larger shubunkin. I think it's a shubunkin. I can't find anything else that it might be. Anyway the shubunkin is driving the other fish nuts. His favorite game is to take the fat...

The Algae is wild this year. I can pull it out by the handful everyday and the pond is only 500 gallons. I finally put a few Water Hyacinths in on the weekend, but they look a little off. So I tested the water tonight and Nitrates and Nitrites are ZERO, PH is 8.4, KH is 180 and GH is 75. I...

The one time I didn't shun the cheap way I messed up. I decided to fertilize my lilies with plain old 10-10-10. No need to buy those expensive pills, they are just 10-20-10, right? Lined up the pots with a piece of 3/4-inch PVC, poured some 10-10-10 into it and jabbed it home with plastic...

I live in the Dallas/Plano area and my small water garden is over-running with koi and goldfish. I really need to get rid of them, and so I'm selling them for a token $2 each. The water garden is very overcrowded, and I'm not sure what else to do with all these fish. I just want them to go to...

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Google is being difficult this morning. We had a snake visit last night. Along with its 11 year old friend, a neighbor boy from down the street. He wanted to know what kind of snake it was and if it was a rattlesnake, which we will get around here from time to time. It was a checkered garter...

Do they need to be achored in a pot or just let them float around the pond?? Girlfriend picked up a couple of bunches of both..

It's been about a year now since I put in my first pond. My mother's neighbor had bought a preform pond and small waterfall, a liner, a filter and a pump; but got a transfer to OH before installing it. I had just bought my first house, so he gave it all to me. The hardform ended up covering my...

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I just recently added green frog tadpoles to my pond. I was wondering what i can feed them and how long do they take to become adults? Also, when they become adults how can I encourage them to stay around my pond? Any advice would be a big help. Thanks!

Currently have a 500 gallon pond it has a max depth of 36 inches.So the fish will be fine over the winter.I'm wondering what do i do with the turtle?? I'm assuming i have to bring it in the fall.I'm located in usa northeast.We do see some very cold winters around here.

I have a 300 gallon preform. It get 4 hours sun. But its above ground and when its 90 the water iis 80... How high can it go before the comets and koi and turtles have a problem? I was told 85 or under is ok. But what happens if it goes above 85? Is there any ideas to keep the temp around 80-.? ...

thanks to those of you who suggested that i just get the water moving. i put in a 40gph pump, hobbled together a little fountain with some rocks and a piece of bamboo and voil=E1: clean, clear water the next day. in a few days, i'll move the goldfish back in. thanks again, michael

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