Emergency advise!

QuestionI returned from a spring break trip to find my pond almost empty from a split seam. Ive drained,scrubbed,rinsed and dried my kids above ground swimming pool,and put twenty six hundred gallons of water in it

Tadpoles?

QuestionI have recently noticed small black tadpole appearing swimmers in my small fish pond numbering in the thousands. I have a small number of goldfish and I am concerned that they will endanger my fish or

Fish are desperately ill

QuestionHi Carlo, Two of our fish have been moving very little, are loosing their colouring but most of all have bad swelling to their undersides. One of them has swelling to its right eye and both of them are now

green fur on my orfe

QuestionHi hope you can help me i have a small garden pond here in the uk i have ofre and goldfish and some small koi .. but i have two orfe that have got a green fur growing on there head and sides its like t

poorly fish

QuestionI have had my pond for 3 years,it holds 2200 ltrs,has a pump,filter and uv lamp.A couple of months after the fish were introduced,1 by 1 they have started to surface with like furry wounds on there flanks an

Small red worms (larvae)

QuestionI have a small fountain. I have no plants or fish in the fountain. I am wondering what these small red things are in the bottom. My main concern is my dogs. They drink out of this fountain and I wonder if th

Emergancy Misquito Fish Advice Needed!

QuestionQUESTION: I have been doing this experiment on ecosystems in my class. We FINALLY finished the experiment and took all the mosquito we used for the experiment home. I have with me a pregnant female living in

Ich

QuestionHello I have a garden pond about 20 by 4 and 3 deep and live in NE England- when I bought the house last year the pond was healthy, well established and had a well balanced ecosystem- invertebrates,po

Water hyacinth flower

QuestionHi, i just had a few questions about water hyacinths flowers. First are they self pollinated? Ive heard they produce a ton of seed. But, How do i germinate the seed? Should i move thi

Rotten Plants in my pond?

QuestionI saw a posting regarding a problem with foam and one of the solutions was to remove any rotten plants and do a partial water change. I do have foam in my pond presently and my question is how do you know if

Pond maintence

QuestionI have a semi rigid 165 gallon pond liner. The pond uses well water. Currently we have 5 goldfish and do not plan on adding any more. We also use 10 snails for clean up. I would like to add a filter system b

Sudden fish die off

QuestionI have had a water garden for about 15 years, and the pond in question for about 5 years. I have tried to allow nature to balance my pond, and it has always worked, until now. I had several hundr

comet suddenly died, need advice

Questionhave a 6x4x2pond with 6 comets ranging in size from 3-6 inches long. have had them about 3 weeks. found one dead this am, no signs of trauma or illness. she is white/yellow. removed her, and put

Hard water in pond

QuestionQUESTION: How do I fix hard water in a pond? ANSWER: Hi Michelle, Do you have any fish in there? ---------- FOLLOW-UP ---------- QUESTION: Just one feeder goldfish. We want to get fish but we are w

strange fish and spawn

QuestionQUESTION: We have a country pond just under an acre. We started with 4 koi about 6 or so years ago and they have multiplied a bit, but are not overwhelming. However, this year we noticed at least

Water hyacinth Dying

QuestionHi, i just had a few questions. Today i looked at my water hyacinths and the leaves where turning yellow and have dots on them. When i looked under the leaves there is what looked to be a white s

koi and golfish dying

QuestionHi Carlo, All my pond fish are dying. I had about 25 total fish. I only have 3 left. When they first stopped eating and noteced things wrong, I was told to use melafix and pimafix.

Designing a small fountain

QuestionHi Carlo: Im in the process of designing a small water feature or fountain. It will sit in a container type pot that is square and about 19 across. The pump will be inside this container and pum

Dark dirty pond

QuestionHelp please! We have a 5000 gallon hand made pond with a brand new liner this spring plus 6 large koi and a few small ones plus toads that come. We have a new Sanio large skimmer and a large bio filter

Goldfish/pond

QuestionWe have a 500 gallon pond with a waterfall for aeration. We also have 18 goldfish. Last year they had 120 babies which we culled (gave away). How many goldfish can 500 gallons support? AnswerHello Richard!