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Welcome to our site. Water Lilies and More. I'll be adding more links from time to time. Some will be to commercial sites, most will be either organizational or personal web sites. All should open in a new tab or window, depending upon your browser. Quite possibly the most useful site for the water gardener! Membership required, but it's FREE! It includes links to many valuable resources, including the best info on the giant Victoria waterlilies. (You know you want to grow one, you know you do!
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3. Choosing Fish | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. The biggest mistake small ponders make is overstocking. My local pond store surveyed the size of everyone’s ponds and the number of fish and said overwhelmingly his customers had too many fish. Way too many. Fish are measured from the mouth to the peduncle, or junction of the body and tail]. Choose fish for your pond that are pond fish. Fancy goldfish cannot take the rigors of the pond and need to be brought indoors during the...
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2. Water Quality | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Fish consist essentially of water. Before you introduce high quality fish into your pond, and periodically while they live there, you must test the water. Test your water weekly in warm weather, whenever you introduce new fish, and any other time there is an event in your pond. Water quality is more crucial in warm temperatures and high pH situations, as metabolism and chemical reactions are accelerated. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Fish senses | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Goldfish have highly developed senses. Six of them. Really. As air based animals, we evolved a need to see long distances. Humans can see with excellent resolution for up to a mile, while goldfish only see clearly about 15 feet. That is why your fish might react with fear and uncertainty if you move suddenly at a distance from the pond but be relatively calm if you make the same gesture right in front of them. Yes, goldfish smell ...
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My Troubling | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Ginger – A red wakin purchased from Fins, Feathers, Paws, and Claws in Harleysville PA. Cal – Small silver and red spotted shubunkin purchased at Aquatic Connections, September 2007. Sil – Silver shubunkin purchased along with Cal (above) and Dom, who got caught in my pump intake grille in Spring 2008 (RIP). Very small when purchased, he has grown big and plump. One Response to “My Troubling”. 24 April 2014 at 7:55 am. What great ...
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June | 2013 | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Archive for June, 2013. Check out the pages! I have been dormant while I work on my other blogs, but my pages have always been the most popular part of the package, so check them out. I hope to be posting again soon,. Check out the pages! Goldfish and Aquarium Board. Koko’s Goldfish World. Associated Koi Clubs of America. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Follow “Big Puddle”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
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1. Filtration | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. So you’ve dug the hole, dropped in the liner, landscaped it with rocks, and filled it up with water. What else do you need and need to do? A garden pond creates a closed system, and in order to include fish in it, the water must be clean. Large ponds approach natural conditions, but small ponds must be extra clean to support animal life. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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4. Feeding | Big Puddle
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Feeding the fish is great fun. Goldfish will learn to recognize their feeder, and will rush to you begging for food whenever you approach the pond. They can become so tame that they eat from your hand. Few spectacles in nature match the feeding frenzy at the outset of a meal. It’s no wonder that many hobbyists feed their fish too much or too often. When temperatures settle below 50 degrees for the season, stop feeding. Please log ...
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A resource for keeping fish in a small backyard pond 500 gallons or under. Raising fish in a small pond poses many challenges. This blog provides a place for me to share what I have learned and to allow others to do the same. Water quality. Predators. Disease. Plants. Discussion of just about any issue can take place here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.