Pond information on this website ... summaries
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Introduction To Fish Pond Keeping
When a person builds a garden fish pond it is to achieve the vision of crystal clear water. The vision normally includes a pond full of colorful fish and attractive aquatic plants. Often the reality of a pond is something quite different ... a green smelly hole in the ground. This need not ...
Building a Water garden pond ... the basics
Building a water garden pond: choosing the site and liner material (either preformed pond liner or flexible pond liner) is far easier than you might think but planning and care is paramount.
Planning and building that great pond
How To Remove Blanket Weed And Algae In Ponds Worldwide
AT LAST it has become possible to conquer the blanket weed or string algae problem that plagues so many gold fish and koi ponds Worldwide.
How To Remove Blanket Weed And Algae In Ponds Worldwide
Preformed Pond Liner & Landscaping Designs & Installation Tips
Do you have you visions of turning your pond landscaping designs into successful projects? Building backyard ponds using preformed ponds built into the ground is easy when you pay attention to some basic rules and tops.
How to build a pond using a preformed (pre-shaped) rigid pond liner
Firestone PondGard EPDM Rubber Pond Liners Best By Far For Flexible Liner Ponds
The most popular USA material for building any garden fish pond 5 mil thick, tough yet extremely flexible. In use for many many years proving resilience and long life usefulness of this unique pond product with many advantages as follows ... Firestone PondGard EPDM Rubber Pond Liners are ...
EPDM rubber pond liner is best
Landscaping ponds Method For Uneven Ground
It is rare that the ideal place for your garden fish pond is on a perfectly flat piece of land. Such a landscaping "opportunity" gives you a couple of choices. You can re-site the garden pond to where you really don't want it so that the digging is easier and the ultimate pleasure considerably less or you can decide to tackle the layout and learn how to cope with uneven ground. The most difficult part of coping w ...
How to install a liner pond on uneven ground
Landscape ponds flexible pond liners V Notch Edging To Make Planting Borders easy
When you landscape ponds for natural look and wildlife access with flexible pond liners make sure you get the edging of the wildlife ponds correct. creating a v notch in the flexible pond liner designs allows for access into and out of the pond and a pla ...
Landscaping ponds with flexible pond liner for planting marginal plants
How to build a garden pond
Today learning how to build a pond is easy, quick and low cost. All this is now made possible with lightweight strong highly realistic fiberglass water garden ponds and waterfalls looking remarkably like real rock and stone. The yard pond below, typical of attractive backyard ponds supplied with edging built into them and specially designed for smaller ...
Where should I build my garden pond?
I've got a rectangular shaped garden with a tree in the top left-hand corner (horse chestnut) and a group of various deciduous trees in the bottom right-hand corner. The garden is 15ft long x 12 feet wide, and the trees cover roughly 2m2 in each corner. The rest of the garden is grass, with some flower beds around the edges. Where would the best place ...
Peter May advises on garden pond location
Beautiful gold fish ponds for pure family enjoyment.
These tough beautiful gold fish survive in low cost small ponds easily. Koi are different. Gold fish ponds are the real alternative to gold fish bowls. Many kids have had the ubiquitous gold fish bowl with its single gold fish. Small gold fish ponds are now so low cost and easy to install that the need for a bowl an ...
How to build half barrel pond For water Plants
How To Build A Half Barrel Pond ... Page thanks to Jeff Cook (see below). Before I get started with the informative stuff, here is a scanned photographs of one of my numerous half barrel ponds, taken in my back yard during late ...
Consider an Indoor fish pond
An indoor pond is the "in-thing". Lightweight, non-splash natural-looking indoor fish ponds can fill that empty corner. An indoor pond with a small waterfall can add soothing sound and character to any room. Indoor fish ponds are a real alternative to an aquarium. A big difference is the indoor fish ponds needs less care. A wide variety of indoor pond and patio ponds are available and with the natural colouring available your ...
Proper Koi ponds Compared to normal backyard ponds
Koi ponds - what do I mean by this. The name koi ponds is reserved for those extra special, highly engineered concrete ponds. Koi ponds tend to be complex in design and devoted to keeping and growing large koi for showing or just pure expensive enjoyment. If only all koi ponds looked like this! If you want to grow large koi then small to medium koi ponds are not going to get you there. Despite this typical backyard ...
Do you want a proper koi pond?
Beware Building concrete Koi Fish pond
A concrete pond is the material of choice for a large and deep specialist koi pond and for ponds that are landscaped into public areas such as parks and shopping centres. In my opinion concrete is the wrong choice when you want to build a small backyard pond or small garden fish pond. Concrete ponds are civil engineering projects especially if you want to grow large koi. In this case there really is no option to a highly engi ...
Concrete ponds are not so easy to build
Fish Ponds & mosquitoes
Mosquitoes Need Water: All mosquitoes have four stages of development-egg, larva, pupa, and adult-and spend their larval and pupal stages in water. The females of some mosquito species deposit eggs on moist surfaces, such as mud or fallen leaves, that may be near water but dry. Later, rain or high tides reflood these surfaces and stimulate the eggs to hatch into larvae. The females of other species deposit their eggs directly on the surf ...
Don't be concerned about mosquitoes in your pond
Garden ponds conversion tables ....
Some people talk in inches and others in millimetres, some in gallons which can be either US gallons or imperial gallons and some in litres. To complicate matters further there are imperial gallons and US gallons. Inevitably you will come across both in pond keeping so use these simple conversion factors if necessary ..... people who buy my book, "The Complete Pond Solver"
Goldfish ponds made from fiberglass for quick easy installation
Above ground or below ground goldfish ponds are the real alternative to goldfish bowls. Many kids have had the ubiquitous goldfish bowl with its single goldfish. Small goldfish ponds are now so low cost and easy to install that the need for a bowl and the inevitable dying goldfish have gone. In the picture below I have shown a very small fiberglass goldfish pond. Small goldfish ponds like this will fit ...
Choosing pond lights
Water feature lights and pond lighting effects ... Lighting in and around ponds creates a brand new dimension and attraction to the water garden. Normally for safety reasons these water feature pond lights are low voltage. Water feature lights can be submerged in the pond or placed above the water surface to create immediate impact and variation. You can have submerged coloured lights normally pointing up to the surface of the water ...
Examples of In Ground Fish Ponds & Small water Fountains
Use an in-ground pond as a feature to your home. Modern high quality, strong all-weather lightweight fiberglass ponds, and indoor and outdoor fountains cost very little but give so much pleasure ...
Instant water gardens and small ponds
Pond water Plants and Pond Ideas For Designing A new Pond
This was a question asked of Peter J May which I'm sure will be the question going around many other potential pond builders' minds ... "I am interested in putting in a pond, but the choices of liners, pumps, filters, etc. is staggering. I would like to build a 5' x 8' kidney shaped pond that is 30-36" deep. I would like a waterfall at one end. I live in mid-Michigan USA so I will need to bring the ...
How To Build Small Natural Garden Pond Bridges
Building bridges in and around your water garden ... encouraging aquatic pond wildlife to come and go. Encourage wildlife into your pond environment. A pond attracts a wide variety of wildlife and the attraction can be made even greater by paying attention to a few approach ...
Build your own natural bridge for your pond
Pond Calculators ... Look What They can Do To help You
Get your very own pond design assistant. My calculators have been designed to do just that help you. The calculators described below were created to take the misery out of selecting the right equipment and to avoid making costly mistakes. These calculators will only work if you have the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program installed on your computer (this is part of Microsoft Office suite which most computers ha ...
Information about pond calculators
Pond Chemicals ..pond testing and adding chemicals and treatments to fish ponds
The first point to bear in mind if you succumb to the temptation to add something to your pond is ...... you MUST know and know ACCURATELY the volume of water in your pond which includes the volume in the waterfall, filters (if large) and streams etc... in other words ALL the water in your system and not just the pond. You must then be a ...
Are you sure you need to or want to test your fish pond?
How To Measure Garden Pond Depth and Pond Volumes
Pond depth is one of those factors in pond building much talked about and misunderstood especially by those people who "mix" with dedicated koi keepers. So often you must ask yourself do I want a koi pond in which I want to raise monster ...
Learn how to measure pond volume ... it's important
Pond edging using turf up to pond edge
I am interested in running turf right up to the edge of my pond. Is this a good idea? And how can I stop the turf sliding into the pond? James Crown, Devon. Answer: Not a good idea, especially if you are going to have Koi in the pool. Nevertheless ...
Be careful if you have turf running up to your pond edging
How much fish food to feed pond fish?
Feeding fish to improve water quality ... During mid summer a fish can easily eat 1% of its body mass. This will reduce as water temperature falls. So the amount of food you can feed your fish can feed depends upon water temperature. Here is an approximate feeding guide per single fish based upon very average situation ...
Pond pH is difficult to measure and control.
I have heard from two readers very recently who decided to make adjustments to their pond water based upon pH measurements they made ... on this basis I thought let me go into this matter of pH more carefully. pH is an extremely complex pond variable. It is almost impossible to make an accurate adjustment even in the unlikely event you have measured the result correctly and you have taken the sample at the right time o ...
pH is difficult to measure and what do you do with the information anyway?
Garden Fish Pond ideas and tips
If you are sick and tired of looking at debris on the bottom of your pond then consider buying an electrically operated vacuum cleaner. Just make sure that it is safe for pond use. OASE make the one that is best known. For people who do not like to get their hands too mucky when cleaning out a pond there are sepcially made long length gloves extending right to the shoulder. If the water is a little too cold then the fishermen amo ...
Pond Landscaping ideas For water gardens
Landscaping ideas, designs, tips to consider For a clean, clear healthy garden Pond. Coming up with landscaping ideas for a garden in total is a pretty complex task since it involves mat ...
Testing Pond water ...
Thousands and thousands of test kits are sold every year and most of these will sit on the shelf unused. They were bought with good intention but the fish pond owner quickly finds that the results are difficult to understand and once the result is known what is to be done next anyway? This is particularly true for tests results for pH and hardness for example. My suggestion is quite simply do NOT test the water at all unless you ...
If you really must test your pond water then do it properly
Some help for you to choose the right pond liner
For a medium sized pond flexible liners made from rubber are best. Today's preformed pond liners are quick and easy to install. Long life and low cost preformed pond liners are best for smaller garden ponds. Garden pond liners in rubber or plastic materials are best for medium sized garden ponds. The best pond liners are made from butyl rubber or EPDM rubber at least 500 microns in thickness. Flexible plastic non ...
Helping you choose the right pond liner
The EASY way to select your pond liner size ...
Here is a simple chart that enables anyone to select the right pond liner to match their chosen pond depth and volume requirements. First however you need to make a basic decision on what pond depth you will want to finish up with. To help you make up your mind about pond depth these are the basic rules ... by the way this is a big adva ...
This table makes it easy to get the right size pond liner for your pond
Building wood pergola over garden pond for shade
I would like to build a pergola made from wood to place over my pond to offer some shade for my Koi and try and combat blanket weed algae. However I am not sure what wood I should use or how to construct it. Can you please give me some suggestions or point me in the direction of where to go to find out? Suzy Richards, Monmouth Peter J May answ ...
Providing some shade for your garden pond with a pergola
Pond Water Heaters for Winter Ponds
In cold climates typical of lots of the USA, Canada and Northern Europe tankless pond water heaters are used extensively. In top koi ponds the water heaters are in fact highly sophisticated automatically controlled gas fired tankless water heaters in many cases. For smaller ponds and larger fish tanks immersion or tank water heating is used. In countries where ponds freeze over it is important to keep a hole open in the ice t ...
Winter care and heating your pond ... don't let toxic gases build up
Winter Care for ponds & Water Plants
Putting the water garden to bed for winter - by Peter J May. This is the season of our discontent, us poor water gardeners. The registered temperature slowly crawls down the thermometer and the world of the water garden slows to slumbering. With ...
Get your pond ready for winter
Pond-Water pH is difficult to measure and control.
You need buffering in pond-water .. hard water is better for pond stability. I have heard from two readers very recently who decided to make adjustments to their pond-water based upon pH me ...
Hard water & pond buffering and more about pond pH
Pond filters & ponds
For crystal clear water and healthy fish in your garden fish pond project, you'll need a good quality biofilter. In order to ensure that your Koi and goldfish live happy, healthy lives, you'll need to install a good quality biofilter in your garden fish pond. Combined with a UV light, a biofilter will guarantee that your fish pond has crystal clear water and healthy fis ...
Keeping pond water clean and healthy
NEW .... A great solution to all blanket weed problems.
