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My First Pond Cleaning
Howdy...
I have the 70gallon monster... I plan to pretty much empty the pondlet, mess with the plants, vacuum the sludge off of the bottom, not clean the sides, and refill using tap water and declor and return the goldfish and plants. Then in a couple of months i will sink the WH, and bring in the taro. I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . I'll put the fish in a covered bucket of pond water. |
My First Pond Cleaning
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:36:54 -0500, jammer wrote:
I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . You might want to wait till spring. Some iris don't do well after dividing, but come next spring they'll come up like gang busters.... that's assuming it was divided this year. ~ jan :o) See my ponds and filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
My First Pond Cleaning
I wouldn't clean everything at once especially something as small as 70
gallons. You might shock the pondlet system and have to cycle the system again. I would vacuum the crud out of the bottom and the water used will work as a water change. Usually a 20% water change is sufficient. Then next week clean something else. "~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message s.com... On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:36:54 -0500, jammer wrote: I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . You might want to wait till spring. Some iris don't do well after dividing, but come next spring they'll come up like gang busters.... that's assuming it was divided this year. ~ jan :o) See my ponds and filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
My First Pond Cleaning
Jammer,
It would be a good idea to get something like a couple of trash cans to put the water that you are going to pump out, and save as much of the pond water as possible. The fish can swim in that water while you do the cleaning. Then put the pond water back into the pond. One the temperature won't change much, as you would have with a complete water change, and the water from the pond has already been through the cycle and has a lot of good bacteria that will help get the pond through the cycle faster. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "jammer" wrote in message ... Howdy... I have the 70gallon monster... I plan to pretty much empty the pondlet, mess with the plants, vacuum the sludge off of the bottom, not clean the sides, and refill using tap water and declor and return the goldfish and plants. Then in a couple of months i will sink the WH, and bring in the taro. I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . I'll put the fish in a covered bucket of pond water. |
My First Pond Cleaning
Well crud....I was just thinking since i had no pump/filter set-up
that all the water should go. But ok! I can to ask the masters and they have spoken! On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 00:23:31 GMT, "RichToyBox" wrote: Jammer, It would be a good idea to get something like a couple of trash cans to put the water that you are going to pump out, and save as much of the pond water as possible. The fish can swim in that water while you do the cleaning. Then put the pond water back into the pond. One the temperature won't change much, as you would have with a complete water change, and the water from the pond has already been through the cycle and has a lot of good bacteria that will help get the pond through the cycle faster. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "jammer" wrote in message .. . Howdy... I have the 70gallon monster... I plan to pretty much empty the pondlet, mess with the plants, vacuum the sludge off of the bottom, not clean the sides, and refill using tap water and declor and return the goldfish and plants. Then in a couple of months i will sink the WH, and bring in the taro. I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . I'll put the fish in a covered bucket of pond water. |
My First Pond Cleaning
the water doesnt contain much of the biofilter. that is in the pond, on whatever
surfaces there are. dont scrub the inside of the pond. as long as you match the water temp and pH you dont need to save the pond water. Ingrid jammer wrote: Well crud....I was just thinking since i had no pump/filter set-up that all the water should go. But ok! I can to ask the masters and they have spoken! On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 00:23:31 GMT, "RichToyBox" wrote: Jammer, It would be a good idea to get something like a couple of trash cans to put the water that you are going to pump out, and save as much of the pond water as possible. The fish can swim in that water while you do the cleaning. Then put the pond water back into the pond. One the temperature won't change much, as you would have with a complete water change, and the water from the pond has already been through the cycle and has a lot of good bacteria that will help get the pond through the cycle faster. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "jammer" wrote in message . .. Howdy... I have the 70gallon monster... I plan to pretty much empty the pondlet, mess with the plants, vacuum the sludge off of the bottom, not clean the sides, and refill using tap water and declor and return the goldfish and plants. Then in a couple of months i will sink the WH, and bring in the taro. I may throw out the small iris'. They have been nothing but a headache and dont want to grow . I'll put the fish in a covered bucket of pond water. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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