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Comments (19)Night Hawk is so happy in his new home. i have him inside the laudry room, very dark and quite. Inside the preformed pond. I filled it up last night and ran the pump in it all night. Mike, i just knew you would say that would better, so i got it ready while you slept :) and then when i got online.. yes, i did the right thing. But i just now moved him so it ran for over 6 hours.. :) When i put Night Hawk in the pond he swam all around and when i put the net over the top he was sitting on the ledge right way up. YEAH.. i think his might be ok. Thank you Erie for trying to help also. It was a storage plastic tub that Night Hawk was in. but i was real worried when i saw Mike say that i should change the watter so frequently. I thought this might stress Night Hawk out even more. should i put some stress eze stuff in the pond with him?? i put in the salt and kio clay ( i don't know if the clay helps but i thought it might). Mike, i will get the specs on the pump for you. About the water fall; it is 8-10 ft from the bottom of the pond to the top of the water fall (if you measure straight up in the air) the legnth of the watter fall is 12-13 ft. and it is 2 ft wide. the pump just sits on the bottom, we don't have a skimmer. we keep the filter pads in the watter fall box thingey .. i don't know the proper name off the top of my head. we have 4 diffrent color pads in there. ( we are using the same system now on the other pond, but with a much smaller pump) we don't want the watter to run to hard down it due to the splashing and watter loss. i reall need to rework the entire thing. the pond my fish are in now is 4 ft deep 3 foot across (short way) and 5 ft across the long way. There is 9 kio, 3 commets, 6 shubukin, in the pond now. When i got the fish the idea was to have the 3 commets in the preformed pond 55 gallon, the koi were going to be in the large pond with the water fall and the shubukin in the deep pond. the bigest fish is a butterfly kio about 8 inches long tail and all. When we had the problem with the large pond i realized we were going to have problems with the freezing weather. i thought maybe i would bring them in for the winter but i realized that the cold and hybernation state is good for the fish. so to the deep pond they all went for the winter. it is suppose to be below 32 for the next few nights, and i don't have the pump for the big pond yet; but even then i'm worried to move them and have the watter freeze.. To fix the big pond i thought rather than take apart the liner that is sealed to the water fall liner and dig a deeper hole that i would be better to bring in the sand and raise the ground level to be even with the ground where the water fall ends. I have a bunch of extra liner on the side of the pond folded up under the rocks. The cat fish that my husband put in the big pond is no longer living there , we took him to the spring house and put him in the pond there. Before you mentioned that other fish will help him, should i bring in one of the small kio or commetts to stay with Night Hawk? i will get the specs on the pump filter system and let you know asap.. lori...See Morepond pictures
Comments (5)Great job of landscaping the entire space! How many fish do you have in the pond? In the pic it looks like about a 50/50% mix of water to fish. LOL This post was edited by Mike56 on Sat, May 11, 13 at 11:49...See MorePicture of my pond
Comments (9)Very inspirational ncponder!!! I'm in eastern carolina and we just put in a pond and I just joined Gardenweb. I teach elementary school and we installed a pond a couple of years ago. Our school partnered with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences UTOTES program - Using the Outdoors to Teach Experential Science. Anyway, my husband and I caught the ponding bug. We are going fish-less and electric-less. We still have lots of work to do - no stones yet, just a few plants. Your pix is exciting and a great motivation - very beautiful!!! islndgrlart...See MoreHummingbirds by pond (w/pictures) Please enjoy.
Comments (17)Sorry about that. My hosting site was compromised years ago, and they somehow slipped in some re-linking java script into the index files. I thought I had them all fixed, but I must have missed that one. Like I said those were old pictures I had not looked at in a while. Thanks for notifying me, I have just deleted the offending script so it is clean now. Again, sorry. If it's any consolation the offending script simply tries to open up another website without your consent much like html pop ups....See MoreCraigger7
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