Hello! We recently bought a house with a pond and I am unsure what goes into the little white plastic container on the right side of the photo. Additionally… the pond is gross and foamy. I currently have a little turtle chloride tab holder that has chlorine in it. Anything else I should be using to clear up the water? It is just green. I have defoaming liquid also… lol I am so new to ponds!!

Ok guys, I want to build a pond in my backyard, however where I live (not in america) it gets =extremely hot, so the average temp in the summer is 115-129 degrees fahrenheit, and in the winter its around 70-80 fahrenheit

How would I make this work?

I want to die a poorly maintained retention pond at my university neon green for St. Patricks day. How might I go about this without causing any environmental problems? Also what kind of die should I use and how much? Cheers.

does anyone have a pond with fish, shrimp, plants, the whole 9 yards but without a mechanical filter or aeration?

When I move, I'm planning to have yard turtles, specifically red-eared sliders, so I will have a pond, 3000 gallons and three to four feet deep

I think I'm concerned about right now would be Winters,

Do they hibernate like goldfish, do they still eat food during the winter,, so will they die if they hibernate with food in their stomach s

With this size of pond,b will there be enough liquid water underneath the ice for them to survive if the surface is frozen over

i plan to grow lotuses, does anyone think this soil could be harmful to the fish in my pond, if so, what should i look for or avoid. i have concerns about the iron and the mystery wetting agent

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The pond is about 4,500L (1,000 gallons) 150cm across 270cm long and 100cm deep plus the stairs into it and fed from a spring so its below 20C year round. So I think it would be possible to keep some brown trout in it but I don't know what I would need in terms of aeration, filtration, structure ect.

it doesn't have access to mains power so anything electrical would have to run off 12 volt batteries .

Follow up to cleaning sludge out if pond. I installed a net over my pond to keep birds and other predators from taking me fish. Now, autom leaves are falling and getting caught in the netting. How do I clean them off?

New build progress, slow grind

Hi,

I was just doing some cleaning out of my pond and was wiping some sludge off the pumps mains wire that is submerged and I noticed I got a slight tingle in my fingers. I only got this tingling on the part of the cable that was submerged and covered in sludge, the rest of the cable was fine to touch. On inspecting the cable there doesn’t seem to be any damage and the pump is running perfectly fine

Is this cable dangerous and been exposed. Do I need to replace it?

Thanks!

I’m very new to having a pond. In the summer I had a 3’ by 12’ pond dug out that’s 4’ deep for my bees. I’m experimenting this winter as I would like to get fish, but I live in Utah and have been researching a natural way to oxygenate my water. I use solar powered bubblers and they work extremely well as their battery works for 48 hours, which is perfect for the winter because our cloudy days don’t last long. I have 3 lilies and 2 oxygenator plants that I can’t remember the name of. Anyways, for my own personal curiosity I did this quality test and I’m very pleased! From my research, I have a lot of limestone present in my water (hardness & alkalinity are both similar), which would be good for fish. Does anyone else run quality tests on their pond? If so, what have you learned?

Hi everyone, pond newbie here and excited for a new hobby! I've had aquariums in the past, but never dealt with live plants. I just set up a little patio pond after finding the perfect container for it! I think it's appox 20 gals. I live in Atlanta, GA, zone 7 so winters here can sometimes get to 20F. Any recommendations for plants I could put in here in the future?

I was also thinking of putting mosquitofish next year when it gets warm since I think it's too small for koi or goldfish. Does anyone have a good websites for buying aquatic plants/fish online? thank you!

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My wallet is somewhere in my 1/4 acre pond. I have a roundabout idea of where it might be. My pond overgrows with algae every summer because there is a ton of decaying plant matter at the bottom, and it gets a lot of runoff. If I drag the pond in search of my wallet, and remove whatever else comes out, is it going to cause any adverse affects other than possibly spreading weeds?

I've got some T-posts, and some plastic orange construction fencing that I plan to make into a dragnet. Do you think it'll catch my wallet? Any different ideas?

All help is appreciated, but so are some jokes at my expense. I'm happy to laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation.

Thank you in advance!