On Aug 6, 10:21 am, Galen Hekhuis wrote:
A lot of folks here put a lot of time in their ponds, checking the
quality of their water, flow and filter concerns, plumbing, decorative
plants, fish, rocks and waterfalls, stuff like that. Not me. My idea
of checking the water in the pond is looking in the pond and seeing if
there is any water. That's pretty much all I do to "check the water."
Plants are lucky if I put them in the ground with the "green side up."
I think they would die of shock if I fertilized them, they are
surprised if I even get around to sprinkling water on them. It is a
mud, unlined (natural) type pond. Oh well, the frogs and dragonflies
and water bugs and other critters seem to like it. Anyway, I rented a
backhoe last week and made it bigger. I'll try to do a better job on
pictures in the future, but here is one I took this morning. The box
on the tree is an IP camera, the idea being that in the future I can
post a URL so that if folks desire they can see real-time pictures of
the pond, but alas, I haven't gotten all the "bugs" worked out yet.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...g062007007.jpg

What is that hanging in the trees? Spanish Moss? Are you in gator
territory?

You need some decoration around the pond!:

http://www.deutscheoptik.com/catalog...roducts_id=759

http://www.deutscheoptik.com/catalog...rods/NS804.jpg