pond maintenance

[John Edward Mercier]

It depends on the species of fish.
As long as there is depth the fish should maintain themselves over a winter... but various levels of water aeration make the different species more suitable.

[Riddler]

don't dig a pond of over 1 acre (then you get the feds involved...permits, red tape....who needs it?)
if you want fish, it has to be @ 8-10 ft deep, to prevent ''winter kill''.
you can put an elec. (or even solar) pump in the middle, on a timer, for aeration
we're in the process of digging one now....

[Pat McCotter]

Pfizer has a koi pond on its campus. To keep birds from catching the fish they have an impulse lawn sprinkler with a valve hooked to a motion detector. When a bird comes down - or someone throws something into the sensor's path - the valve opens sending water to the sprinkler.

I just came across these sprinkler heads at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Contech-Electronics-CRO101-Scarecrow-Motion-Activated/dp/B000071NUS


Here is the mfr website
http://www.contech-inc.com/products/scarecrow/

[Lloyd Danforth]

They'll scare the children

[KBCraig]

Pfizer has a koi pond on its campus. To keep birds from catching the fish they have an impulse lawn sprinkler with a valve hooked to a motion detector. When a bird comes down - or someone throws something into the sensor's path - the valve opens sending water to the sprinkler.

I just came across these sprinkler heads at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Contech-Electronics-CRO101-Scarecrow-Motion-Activated/dp/B000071NUS


Here is the mfr website
http://www.contech-inc.com/products/scarecrow/

Crow as a scarecrow? The irony!

[Kat Kanning]

I did a lot of pond maintenance in the Peace Corps aquaculture program.

[Pat K]

"Pond maintenance " right so that's what they called it.

[PattyLee loves dogs]

I am interested in this topic myself. I think the small kits don't work well. I know a lady in NH who killed her prized Koi by overdosing algae RX. The replacement fish were brought in during the winter and kept in a large aquarium. I am watching the gardening, frugal threads here too' Off topic dont tell Fish and Game, I love my aquarium with a very hearty native minnow like fish and craw dad I scooped out of Tewksbury Pond in Grafton. They now act like my puppies.

[Russell Kanning]

Feel free to provide the name and URL of your provider, unless it's a deep dark secret.

hughesnet

[Friday]

Feel free to provide the name and URL of your provider, unless it's a deep dark secret.

hughesnet

Thanks.  Of course, I asked the question *before* I bought a house in a different town.