foaming pond

QuestionI just read the article on here about foaming ponds how to you do a part water change? the fish seem fine they are swimming quite happily but dont come up when the foam is there i dont &nbs

feeding baby koi

QuestionQUESTION: While muck-vacing our smaller pond just below a waterfall, that empties into a 10 stream, in turn empties into our 3,500 gallon 9-year old pond (whew!) we discovered what my husband thought to be a

goldfish pond/small water garden

QuestionHi, Brigitte, We have a small kidney shaped water garden in our yard which heartily supported 2 goldfish (Frick and Frack) for over 5 years. Late last summer, the water lettuce and water hyacinths got

water under the pond liner

Questionwe recently installed a new pond liner. we previously had a pond but the liner tore. our weather has been very rainy this spring until now. we came out to find water under the liner causing it to

Tub pond - everything dying

QuestionI am truly a beginner at this. I purchased a 40 gallon tub that I have on my back, very sunny patio. In the tub I had 2 small koi, water lettuce, water hyacinth, 2 oxegenators, a dwarf lily, catt

bubbles on rocks and sidewall of pond on top of alge

Questionwhat is causing my pond to have small bubbles and brownish algae on the rocks and sidewalls..pond is approximate. 3000 gallons. we have had this happen before..dont know why but after a while the water will

water hyacinths turning yellow

QuestionNew to site. I recently installed a 100 gallon pond. I have 4 goldfish. 2 marginal plants, I had 1 oxygenator but the fish ate it. I put a couple water hyacinths and they did very well for the first month or

Need help id a pond critter

QuestionI have noticed an unusual looking critter in our larger freshwater pond. NW Washington state. It appears to come up for air rarely. It doesnt stay at the top but a few seconds. It app

Water Lilies Leaf Rotting

QuestionI have a new pond which I put in in April this year, It is about 10 feet long, seven foot at the widest point and about two and a half feet deep. There is also a shelf running all round the

my pond

QuestionI have a man-made pond approx. 30 x 100 ft. with water from 2 ft to 12 ft deep. Its fed by an overflow of an adjacent brook thru a rock dam and has no outlet, and also has about 200 goldfish and

Oil spill in koi pond

QuestionLast night someone decided to play a prank and pour oil into our koi fish pond. I think it is actually lighter fluid for the bar b que. Im wondering How to clean it and how dangerous it is for our fish. We h

DIRTY POND

QuestionI HAVE A SMALL POND WITH 3 GOLDFISH. IT ALWAYS BECOMES GREEN AND DIRTY LOOKING. HOW CAN I KEEP IT CLEAR? I HAVE THE PUMP AND FILTER THAT CAME WITH THE POND. AnswerSeems like you are having

two tiered pond

QuestionSir, I am installing a 240 gal pond with a 160 gal pond 20 ft above larger pond on a hill side. Need suggestion on how to have upper smaller pond flow into stream bed into lower larger pond.....ver

Green Water as usual

QuestionI have a appox 300 gal pond w/ 4 fish total size 24 in.and live in Missiouri, day temps around 85 to 90, 65% sun. I am using a Laguna Power Jet Pump 1300 GPH matched w/ a Laguna Pressure Flo 700 w/ 11 watt U

Plants in water garden

QuestionCan you have too many plants in your water garden that would cause your fish to die? Thank you. AnswerHi Sharon, Unless they produced too much organic matter and it decayed. A healthy environment is

Can gold fish live ina dirt pond?

QuestionWe will be moving and I have been looking for a new home for my gold fish. I have had them in a lined pond and they are about 8 years old. A woman from church just built a small dirt pond and sai

frogs in the pond

QuestionHI David, I am hoping you have information on how I can help my pond frogs survive the winter. I lose them every year. This year I have so many more frogs and just as many tadpoles. Our pond has a bottom lin

goldfish stopped eating

QuestionQUESTION: We recently put in a small garden pond. We started out with 4 fish in the pond, 3 goldfish, one Orfe (I believe Orfe), all of them came out of the same aquarium from the pet store. The fish would

fish tub

QuestionAbout a week ago I found an article about tubing and I thought that it looked really interesting. Basically it said put the fish in a big barrel and theyll be fine. But I抦 going to assume its a little more c

PRUNNING POND IRIS

QuestionIM WONDERING IF I CAN PRUNE POND IRIS LIKE I DO MY GARDEN IRISES? THE POND IRIS CAN LOOK A LITTLE RAGGY. LEAVES THAT BEND AND FALL INTO THE WATER. I JUST REPOTTED MY PURPLE IRIS THIS PAST M