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Pond pictures and update
Chrissy, Hi from Phoenix AZ. Looks like you have been a real busy couple.
The pond looks real nice. They are allot of trouble at times but as a new pond person myself I can tell you that you will have allot of fun with the projects. I had the pea soup pond for a couple of weeks I was told to keep the filter good and clean and it soon clears up. As long as the water test good for the fish your ok. My pond cleared up then the nitrite level was high still working on that but it is slowly getting better. My problem was that I purchased to many fish not knowing the limit for my pond. The fish are doing great and look healthy so as long as the water keeps getting better were ok here. I wish you could send us some of your rain, I'd be happy to send some sun. Last week we had a low of 107 and a high of 118. Just a hint that someone told me not to put gravel or small rocks in the pond they are hard to clean and the waste from the fish gets between them and that causes you future problems. Remember I'm new at this could be wrong but maybe a more expert pond owner will tell you more technical information on that. Good Luck Kc "Chrissy" wrote in message news:WddTa.118652$Ph3.15170@sccrnsc04... Dont know if some of you may remember me posting. I was one of the ones that had dirt in my water. Well we had to drain it out, got out all the rocks in the pond and set it back up again. In the meantime we transferred our Comets over to a holding tank and lost 3 of them due to the excessive heat in the house while getting the pond back in shape to put them into again. We had 11, lost one due to a fallen rock into the pond, and lost 3 more in the tank. We now have 7 left and they are growing so big. We will be getting a few more Comets soon once the water clears up a bit, I'm crossing fingers here. Out of all the plants that we had in there from those small baskets you can get at some pet stores, only the Hardy Lilies have grown. We have about 8 or so lily pads, and our first blossom appeared today, of all days. Its murky here in Massachusetts today and stormy. It brightened up my day though, as I was awaiting it to bloom :0) After draining the pond by using the pump and a long hose attached to it we set it back up after washing down the liner. Of course it poured almost the whole week after we set it up again and more mud got in there before we could fully finish putting the rock border around the edges to keep the liner in place. We now have murky but its also looking pea soup green as well, which it was never doing before. So I'm happy even with the Algae bloom in the water, so I know at least its getting sunlight so to speak. I have tried using the Python that I have for our tanks in the house but its not picking up the dirt, so I may have to get a wet/dry vac or something. I was thinking about adding some of those marbles for aquariums to put in the lower ends of the pond so if I need to get in there I dont slip on the liner. Anyways, I have added some pictures of it up on our website if any of you would like to take a look and let me know any ideas on what to put up around the taller sides of the pond along the top shelf for plants or whatever. Chrissy http://www.thejoyals.net/pond.html |
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