pond parisite

Questionall right.Was cleaning my pond and lifted a rock to find what seemed to me like a branching vine like growth with what seemed to be clear jelly like eggs on it.there was a small white spots next to them but

Shubunkins

QuestionQUESTION: My fishs tail has curved to a 40 degree angle and its listless. The rest of the fish are well and active. Any ideas? ANSWER: Hi Kathy! It is very little information to go on. You did not say how o

sick koi and wintering plants

QuestionHi, I have a 2000 gal pond. 13 small koi. 18-10 in koi has what I believe is dropsy.Bloated abdomen/pineconing scales. No visible sore or ulcer.Possibly from cold water stress poss microabrasion. A koi exper

Spotted catfish and Koi

QuestionI live in Arizona and I have a 125 gallon pond which I have Koi in. Iam thinkingof getting some sort of fish to help keep bottom of pond clean. Someone offered me some spotted catfish. I am

Pond leeches??

QuestionCleaning filters this morning. opened the big filter and flat worm like that strtched about 2 and 3 inches. off white in color, heads looked like hammer head sort of. they looked like intestine. Are the leec

Electrocuted Koi :-((

QuestionDear Experts: I have a fairly small pond - approximately 5x8, 3.5 depth, approximately 350 gall., 1 koi and about 8 goldfish and the number of mosquito biters varies and 1 bull-frog. I have a home-mad

goldfish in winter outdoor pond

QuestionQUESTION: My husband and I live in zone 5 (Okanagan BC)and have goldfish in our 12x8x4(feet deep)pond. Not knowing any better, last year we let the pond freeze over and the goldfish all survived. Now,

new concrete pond

Questionwe have a new concrete pond, can you please tell me if it is safe to put my goldfish in it or do we have to leave it for a certain time. thanks pam AnswerHello Pam! There are products available to age

fountain cleaning equipment

QuestionWe have a 1,500 sq. foot fountain which contains pipes that spray water upward and also has decorative columns. The fountain is under a canopy of trees which drop a large quantity of leaves and debris into t

freezing water falls

Questioni have an 800 gallon water fall in my backyard. The reservoir holds about 600 gallons. the cold Missouri winters is freezing most of the water. i have very little water flowing at thi

Frozen Koi

QuestionWe moved into our home in June of 2005. The Koi pond (about 3000 gal) and 9 adult Koi came with the home. The first year we were here the adult Koi spawned. I gave away as many 1-2?ba

Placostumus

QuestionI have an outdoor pond in central Florida and temp have been low for a week and poss. 4 more days at freezing. The pond has a pump I only have 1 scum sucker in there and 1 tadpole left after summer. &n

Carp fish in outdoor fish pond

QuestionMy daughter recently moved into her first property including an outdoor fish pond containing 8 carp and two gold fish.Pond completly frozen over for 4 weeks.Made hole in one side of ice but was to thick to m

Selling

QuestionHey! I was wondering on what people are into Im 14 and I decided to start a little business where I can practically only gain money, not loose. I want to start this to start gaining money for the futur

Fish compatability.

QuestionMy son has built a pond in my backyard(hes 16) he wants to put fish from our local lake in it as a kind of research project for school. We live in the southern San Joaquin Valley in California. S

Transparent jelly-like worms

QuestionHi, i have a small pond (150l)which has just matured and have just noticed a dozen or so transparent broad worm-like things clinging to the cord of my pump and one attatched to my banana lily.I have also not

algae and turtles

QuestionI have a new concrete pond apx 7 X 7oval, a foot of water #do we need more?# with a 8 high water fall with bottom rock layers. Will the waterfall oxidize the water enough. We want to have only wa

dead goldfish

QuestionI have an outdoors fish pond the size of a bathtub. The 5 original goldfish have breed and I have 20 2 long babies (they are now months old). Over the past two months I have gone away 3 times ove

cant identify pond creatures + weed

QuestionQUESTION: Im just getting rid of the hideous blanket weed & amongst it I found small dark red worms or are they leeches?.. They seem to stick to any surface.. also tiny prawns. Are they both OK to leave in p

Fish disease

QuestionWE have an outdoor pond approx 11,000 gals, we have never had any problems until last year when some of our fish, mixed, shubunkins, goldfish, comets etc got what looked like large ulcers and started to die,