Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the continuing
attacks so thought I'd create a new topic.

What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
A new plant, make a veggie filter, build a bog,
try a different kind of fish, add a turtle, repel
invaders, or build a new pond or container water
garden?

kathy
www.blogfromthebog.com

"kathy" wrote:

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the continuing
attacks so thought I'd create a new topic.


The killfile is good. The killfile is your friend. A very few entries
improve the signal:noise something wonderful!

What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?

After several years of doldrums (is the plural doldra? ), I'm getting my
aged butt in gear. Not really new stuff, but paying more attention. I had
several lotus that died from overcrowding during the Dark Ages; I got one
started last summer and expect it to winter OK, though no new growth yet.
The "Mrs. Perry D. Slocum" I got from Lilypons a couple of weeks ago is
putting up a couple of shoots, and another plant is due to arrive next
week.

Some of the hardies divided, and will get dropped back in the pond
hopefully this evening, and Morning Glories to grow on the memorial gazebo
to make it an even better place for reflection.

And of course, the regular garden; I'm already behind, but I know I've got
lots of company...

Peace,


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

kathy wrote:
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the continuing
attacks so thought I'd create a new topic.

What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
A new plant, make a veggie filter, build a bog,
try a different kind of fish, add a turtle, repel
invaders, or build a new pond or container water
garden?

kathy
www.blogfromthebog.com

I built my first water garden ever. It's 3 whiskey barrels connected by
spillways on my patio. I've got all sorts of plants in it now - the
umbrella palm and marginal grasses are doing the best. I put my first
lily in this weekend, and can't wait to see the first lily pad. I also
bought a gorgeous dwarf canna, iris, and pickerel weed. It's turning
out to be a challenge but I've gotten tons of help around here.

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Hi Kathy,
I'm thinking of moving the frog pond. I'm wondering if the frogs will
cooporate. DH said go ahead - that means he has no thought of helping ;-).

--
Bonnie
NJ

"kathy" wrote in message
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Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the continuing
attacks so thought I'd create a new topic.

What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
A new plant, make a veggie filter, build a bog,
try a different kind of fish, add a turtle, repel
invaders, or build a new pond or container water
garden?

We added many new plants this year, tossed in some of the awful tasting
watercresss (YUCK!), and I built a filter for my spitter pump, hoping it'll
help cure my greenwater.

Frogs have discovered our pond (new las year), and we have about 2 dozen or
so now, plus lots of tads. (We also have salamanders or newts, and spotted a
snake last week, but he's been hiding since then.)

Haven't seen much of our fish at all, but our cat likes to drink from the
pond, so that might be making them hide.

Plus our water is very murky green, so we can;t see much at all.

I also added a underwater light (front chicago tools), and rewired my
electric out there, so the pong pump runs 24/7, and the outdoor lights
around it come on at night.. might cost a little more in electric, but we
might see less green water with my oxy in the pond.

We're considering adding a waterfall as well, but haven't decided yet on
that.

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Continue on improvinmg ,my water as much as possible and may fool
around with a few 55 gal drums made into filters , settlement
chambers, perhaps a trickle tower etc, and see if I can get the water
looking better than it already is.....I just installed a new 1" water
line to the pond area and garden, and also ran a new #4 220 VAC
underground electric service so its just wanting more pumps hooked up
to it, and I have pump on the way, as well as a nice Haywood that
came from a pool which will work good with lots of head pressure
....Probably try and increase depth another foot, if my current
spillway and overflow hold up, then I'll add another 1 foot to water
level and make it so there is only about an 8 inch bank at the highest
point, and it will extend it surface wise a pretty fair distance,
which will make my shallow section approx 2 feet deep minimum. All it
takes is clay, dirt bentonite and time. I have a slight seep right now
and hopefully the bentonite will soon kick in and stop it, but its no
a big deal, but sometimes it can take a couple of days for bentonite
to do its thing.

If I do raise the level I have a heap of plants thats gonna need
relocating as well, so one thing leads to another and it never
ends....

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Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!

"kathy" wrote in message
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Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the continuing
attacks so thought I'd create a new topic.

What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
A new plant, make a veggie filter, build a bog,
try a different kind of fish, add a turtle, repel
invaders, or build a new pond or container water
garden?
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I just bought a mini Umbrella plant (Cyperus) and a colorful chameleon
plant (Houttuynia) for my small 150 gallon pond. The little waterfall is
also new for this year. The rosy reds love it and hang out at the bottom,
in the turbulence. This little pond is a real show piece.

McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
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pics, pics, pics, please. And, good to see you still around.

"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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pics, pics, pics, please. And, good to see you still around.
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I'm not sure where to upload them to. Know of any easy to use FREE sites?
:-)
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"Reel McKoi" wrote:

I'm not sure where to upload them to. Know of any easy to use FREE sites?
:-)

Your internet supplier (ISP) should have space available. If not you
can get free webspace from Yahoo. For more visit:

http://geocities.yahoo.com

This service is easy to use since it is menu driven from you internet
browser.

Getting back to ponds, in my pond which is spring fed with no pump or
filter, I am in the process of installing an air pump (40 watt) to
aerate the pond. I noticed some anaerobic bacteria this spring when I
was bringing up my plants from the bottom of the pond. The minnows were
OK, but there was some anaerobic slime on the bottom.
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18,000 gallon (17'x 47'x 2-4') lily pond garden in Zone 6
Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA

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"Reel McKoi" wrote:

I'm not sure where to upload them to. Know of any easy to use FREE
sites?
:-)

Your internet supplier (ISP) should have space available. If not you
can get free webspace from Yahoo. For more visit:
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Yes my ISP provides space but since I've had so much trouble with a few
whiners and a stalker I would rather not use that space at this time. I'll
look into alternatives first.

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McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
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What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
kathy

I can tell you what I've done so far. Removed the pot at the top of the
waterfall. Originally it was a fake flower pot filter my son had made.

Having no idea back then that it wouldn't even begin to filter a pond our
size once the fish grew. The next year (1997) the guys put in the barrel
filter, but plumb it into the back of the fake flower pot. (I wasn't home
at the time to prevent this.) This year we finally removed it at the same
time that son added a spigot into the output pipe so I can do water change
outs using the pond pump, rather than having to put an extra pump into the
pond. Now it is snap on hose, open spigot and turn on refill water, run for
20-30 minutes.

Another change was selling my biggest and oldest fish, pond looks empty
without her, but all those babies have room to grow now. I still have a big
black one for the new owners to come pick up too. Then I can concentrate on
removing some of the plain colored babies (if I can catch them) and looking
for a black butterfly koi. ~ jan


See my ponds and filter design:
www.jjspond.us

~Keep 'em Wet!~
Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
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What are you going to try new in the pond this
year?
kathy

I can tell you what I've done so far. Removed the pot at the top of the
waterfall. Originally it was a fake flower pot filter my son had made.

Having no idea back then that it wouldn't even begin to filter a pond our
size once the fish grew. The next year (1997) the guys put in the barrel
filter, but plumb it into the back of the fake flower pot. (I wasn't home
at the time to prevent this.) This year we finally removed it at the same
time that son added a spigot into the output pipe so I can do water change
outs using the pond pump, rather than having to put an extra pump into the
pond. Now it is snap on hose, open spigot and turn on refill water, run
for
20-30 minutes.


Jan,

I'd like to hear more about your Flower Pot filter. I have one of the Cyprio
Bioforce things now and it's pain to clean twice a week. So I was
considering the Flower Pot thing or the half barrel filter. My pond is about
500 gallons max. Would the FP be big enough for this size pond?

Any tips.

"Bill Stock" wrote in message
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I'd like to hear more about your Flower Pot filter. I have one of the
Cyprio Bioforce things now and it's pain to clean twice a week. So I was
considering the Flower Pot thing or the half barrel filter. My pond is
about 500 gallons max. Would the FP be big enough for this size pond?

Any tips.

This year I'm in front for a change :-)
New "raised" pond already in (10' x 8' x 3'), covered what was left of the
"lawn" with weed control fabric, slate, white, and bark chips.

Changed the Titan pump to the bigger pond, replacing it with a Cascade
(strictly speaking not a solids pump, but it works great ! ), used the
bottom of the Bioforce 2200UV with the top of a non-UV Bioforce 1100 feeding
into a Cyprio 4500 UV for the bigger pond.
Put the bottom of the non- UV 1100 under the lid of the bigger UV equipped
2200 and everything seems OK.

Added Candlestick Primulas, Fritilleries (Sp ?), and Marsh Marigold to go
with Mare's Tail, etc, and a new water lily for the bigger pond.

Bill, I normally only have to clean my Bioforce about every 2 months, and
that's been on all year with 4 goldfish in.
What pump are you using ?

Peter

"2pods" wrote in message
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"Bill Stock" wrote in message
...

I'd like to hear more about your Flower Pot filter. I have one of the
Cyprio Bioforce things now and it's pain to clean twice a week. So I was
considering the Flower Pot thing or the half barrel filter. My pond is
about 500 gallons max. Would the FP be big enough for this size pond?

Any tips.

This year I'm in front for a change :-)
New "raised" pond already in (10' x 8' x 3'), covered what was left of the
"lawn" with weed control fabric, slate, white, and bark chips.

Changed the Titan pump to the bigger pond, replacing it with a Cascade
(strictly speaking not a solids pump, but it works great ! ), used the
bottom of the Bioforce 2200UV with the top of a non-UV Bioforce 1100
feeding into a Cyprio 4500 UV for the bigger pond.
Put the bottom of the non- UV 1100 under the lid of the bigger UV equipped
2200 and everything seems OK.

Added Candlestick Primulas, Fritilleries (Sp ?), and Marsh Marigold to go
with Mare's Tail, etc, and a new water lily for the bigger pond.

Bill, I normally only have to clean my Bioforce about every 2 months, and
that's been on all year with 4 goldfish in.
What pump are you using ?

Peter
Hi Peter,

I thought Nessie had gotten you.

I have a Laguna 1500 at the moment. Pond is about 500 gallons and nine GF.
The main problem seems to be Algae and silt.