winter in the deep south

Questioni live in Mississippi, the winters are very mild,I need to know if I should winterize my pond, paticularly, should I stop my waterfall until spring? The pond is goldfish, koi, plants, and a 4 foot waterfall,

Outside Coy

QuestionI have a small pond about 4 wide by 6 long and approximately 2 deep. Do I leave the finh in the pond during the winter months. I have no idea what the maintenance proceedure during the winter months would be

Fantails

QuestionDo Fantails hibernate along with regular goldfish? Do I need to keep them in an indoor aquarium for the winter? AnswerThe fantails go dormant just like other goldfish. Sometimes fish or other an

Black Moors

QuestionDo Black Moors hiberate in the winter? Do I need to keep them in an indoor aquarium for the winter? AnswerBlack moors are telescope-eyed goldfish. Like other goldfish, they will become inactive

Crabs

QuestionQUESTION: Hi Robyn I know this is a stretch but I was wondering if you could tell me what you know about aquarium crabs. My science teachers bought a crab for their aquarium at the local pet store a couple

Aranda

QuestionI have a lion head aranda that looks like she has swallowed two golf balls and is continuing to get bigger every day. I am assuming that she is full of eggs because she is very heavy. This is my

Mirror Carp

Question Hi.I have a 18 long and about 10lbs mirror carp that is now laying on its side at the bottom of my pond.It spends longperiods of time like this and then will swim slowly about for a short time before going

Koi diseases

QuestionHi Robyn! We are new to the fish pond community and recently, we have had 2 koi die with large holes in their bodies. One fish in the pond has that same purplish hole on his side but he seems fin

Large Earth Pond

QuestionQUESTION: I live in south Texas. We are going to dig a pond and use the dirt to build a house. I would like to have Koi in the pond. Would the pond need certain requirements to have Koi. I was going to put a

Huge air bubble lifted liner up

QuestionI have a 1500 gallon pond and live in Michigan. Last week the liner bubbled up such that it forced out at least 60% of the water. We put rocks on it to try to push it back down but there is still so much air

Koi Carp all dying suddenly??

QuestionQUESTION: Hi There My dad has an 11,000 lire Koi carp fibre glass pond in the garden (UK) There is a large airstone at the bottom, a waterfall and skimmer and a sophisticated filter system About 3 weeks ago

gold fish and freezing water

QuestionHello, I have a pond in my front yard in Seattle area. I was wondering if goldfish can live if there is no pump running during the winter months? My pond is 5ft deep 10long and 7 feet wide.  

Squirrels

QuestionHave you ever heard of Squirrels taking Gold fish out of a Garden Pond .We had one run out from under a net we put on the pond in Fall to keep leaves out .He had a Fish dangling out of his mouth as he ran aw

water lilys

QuestionI have recently obtain sever water lily plants. I was told that there were different colors flowers that come from then. The person I got these from has had them growing in tanks for several years and the tu

Trying to find the water treatment Back-up

QuestionWe have several ponds- have been using the water treatment known as Back-up but cant find a source for it anymore. I used to buy it on-line- but now it seems to have vanished. Do you know of an a

Koi/pond

QuestionI want to build a pond and have been doing some research, but there are 2 questions that are just itching me. 1- How deep does a koi pond have to be??? I know it has to be at LEAST 1000 gallons. 2-How do yo

Koi die without any warning

QuestionOk... This is a good one! I have looked after my pond for the past six years. Its about 650 gal. Last year I noticed my koi dying one by one on some days two or three, the whole process happened

Ryukin goldfishs hump, how long till it is prominent?

QuestionCan you tell me or refer to someone who would know how long it will take for my ryukins hump to develop, he is a little over one inch long now and i was just wondering how long it may take? thanks AnswerIt

Goldfish care/New Waterfountain with small pond

QuestionQUESTION: Robyn, my husband and I recently had a water fountain installed and also had a small stone circular pond built surrounding the water fountain. The pond is approximately 6 in diameter and 11 d

Koi/Turtle Pond

QuestionWe have a pond that had 6 koi and one turtle. After heavy rain, all koi died. Turtle and minnows survived. After koi died we pumped pond almost dry, cleaned out debris (as best we could) and refi