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| Koi died while floating | 6/6/2009 |
Q: I recently build a small pond in my basement. I filled it with water from my larger outdoor pond. ...
A: Hey Jim, moving fish from one tank to another is pretty traumatic, thats why I never do it. Even ...
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| goldfish with ghost koi | 6/3/2009 |
Q: I have just recently purchased two baby ghost koi, aprox 2 inches long. the pond that they are in ...
A: Hey James they will come to the top when they get comfortable. I have goldfish and koi in my pond ...
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| goldfish/koi behavior | 6/3/2009 |
Q: I have a similar problem to Sue's. Two days ago the 14 fish in my pond "disappeared" instead of ...
A: Hey Beverly, sounds like something got them and the rest are scared. I keep my pond green because of ...
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| worms | 6/2/2009 |
Q: I keep getting worms (up to 3 to 4inches long)in my pond filter, hundreds to be exact. Pond is ...
A: Hey Steve I would almost have to see them. I get a lot of questions from the UK about worms in your ...
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| Goldfish and Carp | 5/21/2009 |
Q: The fish have not come to the surface now for over a week, they just stay at the bottom huddled ...
A: Hey Sue thats a lot of wildlife around the pond I would be scared if I was a fish. I have seen cats ...
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| Pond pump | 5/21/2009 |
Q: Eric thank you in-advance I recently enlarged my pond and went with from a submersible pump to a ...
A: Hey George, don't thank me to fast, I am not that familiar with external pumps. I have always had ...
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| pond filters | 5/21/2009 |
Q: and was wondering what the difference was between a uv filter and a uvc filter or are they the same. ...
A: Hey Robin a uv filter is a filter that filters the water and has a uv light. A uvc is a Ultra-Violet ...
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| Goldfish Behavior | 5/19/2009 |
Q: I have four Goldfish,the second year they came out of hibernation with no problems about 2 months ...
A: Hey Sue, it sure sounds like something scared them. If they are at the top and you walk around the ...
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| max head height | 5/18/2009 |
Q: I'm an artist preparing my degree show in June, I'm making a sculpture with 65 liters of water in ...
A: Hey Hye, you sculpture sounds very interesting I would like to see it. I wouldn't think you would ...
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| pond fish | 5/16/2009 |
Q: I have an outdoor pond, approximately 5,000 gallons. I have a mix of koi, shubkins, comets in it. ...
A: Hey Brett it sound like a bacterial infection to me. Watch the other fish closely, if they start ...
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| Need stocking plan on new water feature | 5/12/2009 |
Q: I am in the process of building a nice water feature into my patio - all work in progress at this ...
A: Hey Drew I will just give you a general outline. I wouldn't put more than 6 fish in it. They will ...
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| Pond water turned black after refilling | 5/12/2009 |
Q: Our pond is 21 by 17 feet and five feet deep. About a month ago it turned really green and the fish ...
A: Hey Boots I don't know if I can help but I will give it a try. My sisters pond turns black and the ...
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| Bullying | 5/12/2009 |
Q: I noticed this morning that two of my fish (One is a goldfish the other is an unknown brown colour) ...
A: Hey Tom this is a common problem. It is almost trial and error. In my salt water tank the fish that ...
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| dead fish | 5/11/2009 |
Q: Today I came out to feed my comets - 32 of them in a 2,520 gallon pond. They ranged from 2 inches to ...
A: Hey Melissa I am with you it is some kind of oxygen depletion. When water bubbles are at the surface ...
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| Fish disappearing | 5/11/2009 |
Q: I have a garden pond (for about 2 years). Yesterday all the fish disappeared - I thought something ...
A: Hey Beck I feel like Sherlock Holmes.Well we know its not magic and that some animal is not taking ...
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| green water, just after cleaning pond | 5/10/2009 |
Q: we had terrible green water over the past year. But fish due well. But we can't see them, so we went ...
A: Hey Sheilla my pond is green also it helps the fish not to be eaten by critters. The sun causes the ...
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| cloudy water after adding ph7.5 | 5/8/2009 |
Q: have a 400 gallon fish pond,with a decent pump and fliter, the water was clear but after putting ...
A: Hey Carol, it should clear by itself, keep running your pump and filter. Sometimes these small ...
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| fish pond oxygen | 5/7/2009 |
Q: We have a 1700 gallon fish tank in the backyard with a 5,000 biofilter, UV, super water circulation ...
A: Hey Melinda, any freshwater kit at the pet store will do. They all have the same chemicals in them. ...
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| fish pond oxygen | 5/7/2009 |
Q: We have a 1700 gallon fish tank in the backyard with a 5,000 biofilter, UV, super water circulation ...
A: Hey Melinda, it probably wasn't the oxygen that killed them it was probably the heat. There is not ...
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| pond fish not feeding & staying at bottom | 5/7/2009 |
Q: My fish were feeding & very active until 4 days ago when a heron visited & took some now they are ...
A: Hey Maureen, I doubt it. They don't forget things like that. They will come to the top but they will ...
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| Sudden Koi death | 5/7/2009 |
Q: For reference, I have four outdoor connecting ponds, with the bottom pond around 8,500 gallons, ...
A: Hey Heather, your pond sounds impressive and you are diffidently on top of it. I think you could be ...
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| Leaking waterfall/pond | 5/5/2009 |
Q: I checked both the waterfall and the liner as instructed and found no leaks. The water level drops ...
A: Hey Mary, the water is going somewhere. It is either leaking under the liner or on the side. If the ...
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| cloudy pond water | 5/5/2009 |
Q: we have bio filter and pump with waterfall. It has worked great for past 3 years giving crystal ...
A: Hey Tina no problem I am just trying to eliminate some things so we can figure out what is going ...
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| cloudy pond water | 5/5/2009 |
Q: we have bio filter and pump with waterfall. It has worked great for past 3 years giving crystal ...
A: Hey Tina, if there is green stuff floating in the pond it is algae. The bio filter should be taking ...
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| pond plants | 5/5/2009 |
Q: Eric I have a 12 x 15 pond with a rubber liner covered with round creek stones. last year I planted ...
A: Hey Bob, you need to put your plants in containers. This makes it easy to get out and cut the excess ...
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| Bubbles in the headbox | 5/4/2009 |
Q: We have a fairly large pond with a river going down a hill. We have a large headbox (approx ...
A: Hey Dan I am not sure. I take it you cleaned the filter box, sometimes new material will cause ...
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| cleaning my pond | 5/3/2009 |
Q: my pond got vandalised and had plants, bricks, pots, ornaments and even the filter thrown in it. as ...
A: Hey Caroline, what nice people, they must not have anything better to do.Sorry about your pond. If ...
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| soap bubbles in the fish pond | 5/2/2009 |
Q: Our little girl poured her bubbles into the fishpond and its foaming over. Currently there are no ...
A: Hey Christopher, that is not good. The pond needs drained and cleaned. It shouldn't hurt your plants ...
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| cloudy pond water | 5/2/2009 |
Q: we have bio filter and pump with waterfall. It has worked great for past 3 years giving crystal ...
A: Hey Tina, I have no idea but I suspect it would be the last thing I worked on. I always go to the ...
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| algae | 5/1/2009 |
Q: there is not much shade around,I was told told if we put some kind of a pump to keep the water ...
A: Hey Chris, if you are talking about green water you would have to get a better filter. You can try ...
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| Pond life | 4/29/2009 |
Q: These were also on rocks and underwater pots. What are these and do I need to remove them. They were ...
A: Hey Randol, thats a new one on me. I have never heard of these worm like things. If they were ...
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| new liner over old liner | 4/27/2009 |
Q: As I was cleaning out my pond today I noticed an air or water bubble at the very bottom. I put a ...
A: Hey Denise, I have had this problem also. What I did was peel my liner back and run a piece of hose ...
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| Dead Frogs | 4/26/2009 |
Q: My coi pond is appx 1500 gallons with waterfall about 5 years old. Three bullfrogs live there year ...
A: Hey Traci, every winter I find a few dead frogs that didn't make it through the winter. The only ...
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| Pond depth | 4/25/2009 |
Q: I was wondering if you could help answer a quastion for me? I have a pond which was set up last ...
A: Hey Amanda, two things, first ,running a pump all winter is hard on the pump. The shaft in the pump ...
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| wine barrel fountain empties when power is off | 4/24/2009 |
Q: My 2 tiered wine barrel fountain empties it's top barrel each night after we've turned the fountain ...
A: Hey Denice,if there is any tube at the top wine barrel going to the bottom gravity will cause it to ...
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| waterfalls | 4/24/2009 |
Q: I want to build small backyard waterfall/pond
A: Hey Della I don't know if you have a question but building a water fall is not that hard. If you ...
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| Fish Ponds | 4/21/2009 |
Q: I am trying to raise the PH, Hardness and alalinity in my 1800 fish pond quickly. I have lost 10 of ...
A: Hey Terri I never mess with my water because if the pond is set up right you never have to.The rule ...
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| goldfish pond | 4/20/2009 |
Q: I have a friend who has a small goldfish pond and we can't seem to keep the water to stay clear. She ...
A: Hey Cheryl, yes it does matter how many fish. 2-5 gallon per fish depending on the size of the fish. ...
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| Fancytail goldfish w/swim bladder disease? | 4/20/2009 |
Q: My favorite pond goldfish -- which I've had for 10 years -- now seems to be suffering from swim ...
A: Hey Tina, the only thing I have heard is the pea thing also. I know that if you feed the fish dried ...
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| Goldfish with white around mouth | 4/18/2009 |
Q: We just yesterday bought two shubunkins and a goldfish to add to the three we already had in our ...
A: Hey Catherine, its sounds like some fungal mouth disease to me. I would start getting my fish ...
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| Solar fountain "clean" pond? | 4/17/2009 |
Q: We have inherited a pond on the property we purchased last year. It is an earthen pond made by ...
A: Hey Jennifer,I don't know much about solar fountains. I think it would diffidently help. Algae ...
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| leaking outdoor water fountain | 4/11/2009 |
Q: i have a built up rock water fall and pond had it for about six years it is leaking around the base ...
A: Hey Carole, you didn't say wether it is leaking at the water fall or the pond itself. So I will try ...
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| waterfall | 4/6/2009 |
Q: I have a 20x25 water pond and the watefall is made out of 55 gallon barrel the top of the barrel ...
A: Hey Shelly. first off,your pond is beautiful. I like the barrel idea. I have something similar but I ...
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| water lilly dirt in fish pond | 4/3/2009 |
Q: Last year I transplanted my water lily in just plain sand. They grew but the leaves died and became ...
A: Hey Alberta, they sell special soil for water plants at Lowes. I use it and it works great. It looks ...
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| Earth bottom pond | 3/30/2009 |
Q: I have an earth bottom pond that's around 15' x 30'. When we have rain, there's quite a bit of ...
A: Hey Christine, the only thing I can think of is the same thing that farmers do to there farm ...
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| biofilter media | 3/26/2009 |
Q: i have a 200 gallon pond, a pondmaster 1000 prefilter that is placed into the water (attached to a ...
A: Hey Aaron either one would work. It just catches the waist and lets it breakdown on the balls or ...
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| paint safe for fish | 3/23/2009 |
Q: we had a lot of concrete left over from another project so since our water garden liner had a leak ...
A: Hey Karen it is true the concrete will kill the fish. I don't know about paint.How about putting ...
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| excess bubbles in pond | 3/21/2009 |
Q: I have read a few of the posts and responses about bubbles on the surface of a pond. This is my ...
A: Hey Tim I have never heard of bubbles in the pond like that. The only thing I can think of is that ...
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| leak in rubber pond liner | 3/20/2009 |
Q: Today while doing the "spring clean out" on my pond I found a 1/4 inch slit in the bottom of my ...
A: Yea it will eventually seep into the ground. You can patch it, I would be worried about the glue and ...
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| Tadpole look a likes | 3/20/2009 |
Q: My daughter and some friends were looking in a stream, creek like water hole and they found these ...
A: Man I don't know Bridget. I live in Ohio and it kind of looks like a mud puppy. I don't know if you ...
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| leak in rubber pond liner | 3/20/2009 |
Q: Today while doing the "spring clean out" on my pond I found a 1/4 inch slit in the bottom of my ...
A: Well Jill I hate to say this but you need a new liner. Patch won't hold. I would be wondering what ...
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| indoor water garden | 3/19/2009 |
Q: I am attempting to make a water garden/aquarium. My idea is to tank a 30 gallon fish tank with ...
A: Well Justone this can be done pretty easily. You can use dirt with gravel on top.Just make sure you ...
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| Bidding | 3/17/2009 |
Q: I have a big problem with blanketweed in my pond which is about 80 squAre meters. Can you help? ...
A: Hey Peter the first thing I will do is explain blanketweed or string algae.Number one the fish love ...
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| How to Get Goldfish Eggs to hatch? | 3/17/2009 |
Q: we have had a Goldfish pond for a few years now.And we have tried and tried to get the goldfish ...
A: Hey Danny, a couple of things come to mind. They have to feel safe, they lay eggs on plants and ...
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| pond with liner | 3/17/2009 |
Q: The pond suddenly empties but only occasionally. It stays full for weeks and then overnight it ...
A: Hey Stephen,HUH I have never heard that one before. You never said how big your pond is. A couple of ...
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| Water black and smelly | 3/16/2009 |
Q: I am just opening my pond - water is black, slug on the bottom and water smells really bad. What ...
A: Well Joan you didn't say if you covered you pond all winter or what size it is so I will try to ...
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| KOI POND SPRING MAINTENANCE | 3/16/2009 |
Q: I LIVE IN MA AND INSTALLED A 18X12 KOI POND. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE RUBBER LINER, FILTERS ETC TO ...
A: Hey Don, I have about the same size pond with Koi. I don't even have a filter. I live in OH so I am ...
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| losing fish | 3/15/2009 |
Q: I have a 700 gal round pond and recently having been losing fish like crazy. I have taken out 50% ...
A: Hey Barbara sorry to hear about your fish, I have all kinds of fish 3 salt water aquariums and a ...
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| frogspawn and fish | 3/14/2009 |
Q: I have read numerous bits of information about this and all have been saying different things. I ...
A: Hey Sinead, I leave mine in. I have bull frogs. What usually happens is the fish will eat some of ...
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