Recent content by thejetskiqueen

Welcome, Nice pond

We dug our pond by hand, at night, in August, with head lamps on!

I have done this same thing with both filling and draining the pond. After a big rain we need to drain off some water and I almost let it go dry then had to fill it again, then filled it too much, so back to draining. I let my husband do it now. :icon_mrgreen:

Show 'em to me! There seems to be a good many of us here that have them so show them off! Me first. This aquarium is a 30 gallon Oceanic Cube. My husband built the stand. It has a Sunpod 150watt metal halide light over the top, 12 gallon sump, 2.5 gallon refugium. This is the sump and...

Exactly. Must be a leak either liner or plumbing or possibly runoff when it rains. As a reef aquarist, I promise that salt does not evaporate.

Well, I do have blooms AND I have algae. I have been too lazy and/or broke to build one of these DIY Filters. I don't want to do the experiment but if you have no algae AND no blooms, and I have both algae AND blooms so maybe phosphates are the key. I would give up blooms to get rid of the...

WOW, I see you are in Georgia as well. Is that particular one poisonous?

I love water hyacinth! I bought two small plants at Home Depot as soon as I saw them and they have grown out of control as well. Sometimes I will not have any blooms, and sometimes only one or two. Then sometimes they will go for a couple of weeks with no blooms. As long as they are in the...

Welcome Sherry! Very nice pond and yard. You are very fortunate to be able to use that spring water in your pond, it is sooo clean! I can't help you with the wintering thing as I live in Atlanta but I'm sure someone here can.

Wow! My sister in law lives in Augusta.

Where is Ga did you live DrDave? Got any secret pond places I should check out?

Well, I don't know if that is the reason because I know my friend gets up early to walk like 2 miles every morning and she plays golf and she does try to eat healthy so I don't know why they had someone do it for them unless it was overwhelming and had no place like this forum to help them out...

I am fostering a cat. We call him O.K., or orange kitty. He showed up here probably a couple of months ago and I have been sneaking him a little food here and there without anybody knowing. I can't keep him because I already have two cats and they are a handful themselves. As I stated it is...

They cheated and had a contractor build their pond. Cost a pretty penny, but then they say they were/are too old to do it themselves. They are crazy! I think they are only in their mid 40's. That's not old! She says her pond is now about 5 years old. She has tons of shubunkin goldfish and...

Thanks!