About my first Baby Koi

QuestionI have a 3500 or more gallon pond about 4 - 41/2 ft deep with 14 imported koi fish ranging in size from 12 to 20 or so. I had the pond for 3 yrs and is about 15x21 with many floating & grass plants thi

goldfish & lily pads

QuestionMy goldfish have been eating all my lily pads off the three plants that I have. How do I get them to stop. I feed @ 24 goldfish flakes and now added pond pallets 2x/day. But they continue t

Murky Pond Water

QuestionMy backyard pond was perfectly clear until we had a long very hot spell and it went murky. Ive tried adding laguna pond clearfast but it didnt do anything. We have floating as well as other plant

MUCKY WATER

QuestionWE BUILT A 3000 GALLON POND AND WE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS KEEPING IT CLEAR. WE HAD A PROBLEM WITH STRING ALGIE SO WE USED A PRODUCT CALLED ALGAEFIX FOOLOWD BY CLAIFIER (ECOFIX). THIS SEEMED TO WORK

female koi

Questionwhat is dropsy she was tubby when we got her but now she is huge still eating but slow moving noticed this about 2 weeks ago and tonight I saw her at feeding time she looks really really uncomfortable

Raiding my pond

QuestionI live in the city - during the night something ate all my fish (pieces were laying around)and knock over all my plants - I have only seen a ground hog and rabbits and Im certain they didnt do it. Any ideas?

gaden fish ponds

Questionhaving fed blood worms to fish in pond quite some time ago I now, have the problem that worms that escaped into the filter system continue continue to breed and despite cleaning filter system again and again

pond lillies

QuestionI have had my pond lillies for about 3 years and this is the first time they have ever done this. The stems have grown so long that they look like spagetti. The lilly pads are still on the end of

muddy pond water

QuestionI started out 7 years ago with adding 5 koi in my natural pond, I now have about 100, all sizes and colors its beautiful. Recently, I had my landscaper do some work around the pond (fixing the retainin

Tank Cycling

QuestionI wanted to do a fishless cycling of my 33 gal aquarium, so I had filled it up, connected my airpumps, filters, and increased the water temp to 84 degrees. I also dechlorinated the water with Big Als dechori

PH in my pond

QuestionHi Robyn, I have a 300 gal. poly pond with a large koi (18+) and 5 or 6 3 Comets. I have a bio filter that pushes water up and out of a cement center piece, it runs 24/7. My problem is ph. It seems that when

fish kills

QuestionMy two neighbors and I have small koi ponds. About 3 weeks ago all of the fish in one of my neighbors pond (he has 2 next to each other)were fine at night and in the morning they were all dead. Today,

spots on goldfish

QuestionHi one of my pond gold fish has large white spots on it side. He has about 4 but otherwise seems well. Any idea what it could be. I have 10 other fish in there with him who have none.  

Ponds

QuestionHow do frogs get into tub ponds that are above ground? Do tub ponds need filtration? AnswerFrogs are good at hopping and can jump into above ground ponds. Tub ponds dont have to have filtration but th

Goldfish chasing

QuestionI lost 5-6 goldfish early this summer because a couple of Shobunkins just chased them to exhaustion? Were they trying to breed them? My pond is fairly large (9x6x3D), but I dont have much c

Goldfish in pond/container - this is very long!

QuestionQUESTION: How do I get better control the algae, use of various types of water in our circumstances, and keep my goldfish healthy and happy? This is a very long unique situation. If you dont want

Gold fish dying

QuestionI have had a successful pond for 5 years with 35 goldfish.Lately each day i have come out to find tone or two goldfish dead. I have had them since the start and all would be around 6-7 inches in size.

gold fish in pond dying

QuestionQUESTION: Hi Dont know where to turn, and found this website. I am in South Florida and have a pool, converted through the courtesy of Hurricane Jean and Francis 2 years ago, into a pond for goldfish.

orange ghost koi

Questioni saw an orange fish in a tank of ghost koi and asked if it was a ghost koi and they said yes but thing is ive never seen a completely orange ghost koi before in any shops or over the internet before is this

A heron keeps eating my fish.

QuestionHi, im am dazzled by the fact that i come down every morning to find the fish at the bottom of the pond hiding, and many missing, i have spotted a heron a few times and am eagar to kill it, catch it, and sto