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Congratulations on getting hooked. Have you posted any pics of your
pond? (Our pondsite below shows ours.) Your manual cleaning is a good move. The fish and plants will continue adding muck, and you will come to guage when the pond is so full want to clean it. You have a pond full of seasoned water. We would just enjoy it and learn about the pond's growth cycle this year. If you could work out a bottom drain for the pond and a good veggie filter with your water feature, you could avoid most of the cleaning by having a good sized drain in the bottom of the veggie filter. We would be glad to comment more on that. Our berm ponds get the muck and they and the pond are crystal clear (tho' tea colored). We have not changed out our water in the seven or so years we have had the pond. Phyllis and I spent a number of years in Cambridge studying. Where do you live in London? Jim hotpepper wrote: I inherited a pond about 2 years ago in my new house in the south of England and although it was a nice feature I ignored it until very recently. Its about 3000 ltrs (650 gals) 2m X 3m X 0.7m and I think its many years old, I think its made of concrete and has some very attractive stonework around and in the pond, the sides look like stone bricks. Someone obviously spent a lot of time on it so I thought I should do something with it. It's in a very shady spot but does get some direct sunshine in the middle of the afternoon. It was not filtered and everything was overgrown, it basically looked like a swap. I started by clearing all the overgrown vegetation and have left a decent sized patch of Lilly's in the middle with some oxygenators and reeds. Then (I didn't now about pond vacs at this point) dredged the bottom with my bare hands then a coarse net, then a fine net. So now I have a thin layer of sludge at the bottom. I then added a good quality filtration system with a small water fall, UV clarifier, an air ball and some lighting. I already had three largish goldfish, I've added 3 Tench, 3 Commits, 3 Goldfish, 3 blue orfe, 3 Sebunkins, all are quit small 3in. Everything seems fine expect I can't see the Tench but I assume they are ok. The water was very murky but after a few days it has started to clear (you can see the rocks at the bottom of the pond) and is no longer green. My questions a 1 - Have I done the right thing in terms of setup and cleaning? 2 - I have had mixed advice on this but should I drain and clean the pond and does this need to be done every year? 3 - Can I keep Koi in this pond? 4 - Is there anything else I should do? 5 - How many fish should I keep in the pond? 5 - Where have the Tench gone? Sorry for the long story but I didn't want to leave anything out but needless to say but I am now totally hooked!!! Thanks in advance for you help. |
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