Ponds

Does anyone have one in their yard? The house we bought has one and we hardly know how to take care of it!

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we just built one. not too much experience with maintaining it yet.
you can try gardenweb.com, i think they have a pond care forum, people there are really nice & i'm sure they could give you easy instructions.

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Yes, DH built ours 2 years ago.
I LOVE it
Sitting on the deck and listeing to the sound of the water is very relaxing.

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My sister had one of those preformed ones, put fish in it and realized it was too small. So, she built a huge pond and it's gorgeous but there is a lot of maintenance due to the fish.

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I've heard that Koi are not that easy to take care of because their poop makes the pH acidic. That's what happened to my goldfish (in an aquarium), I was constantly adding chemicals to even out the pH.

You could get some water lilies and grassy plants instead. Does the pond have a waterfall or a filter?

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there are some koi already and a shebunken and something else! There is a filter and a waterfall on it too!

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my mom had one built for my dad years back- my dad was obsessed with it, so he took care of it, but it was a lot of work! He also had someone come in once a year I guess to do some maintenance on it- they sold their house last year and the thing he misses most is the pond and the people that bought the house (who are friends of the family) want to close it because they don't know how to care for it my dad wishes he lived closer so he could do it for him

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We had a very small one in the house when we moved in. We had a lot of problems with the filter, it was a major pain. Then after finding a dead mouse floating in it, then a dead lizard, we decided we were done with the pond. It was pretty, and nice to have, but not for us.

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My parents have 2 ponds on their property and they aren't maintenance free, but they don't take too much maintaining, if you have filters in, you have to wash the filters out several time a year but thats easy enough. The filters are biological filters so you don't have to use any chemicals. The plants do a lot of filtering.

Koi are difficult to keep because they eat all your plants and poo a lot. We learned everything from reading forums on the internet, we never had anything dead floating in it! but everyonce in a while Egrets come and eat some of our fish. Some of the Shubunkins in our ponds have been there since 1998, they are so easy to keep, they swim around under the ice in the winter! Also, the Shubunkins are very prolific breeders and every year we have a crop of new fish swimming around!!!

I saw we...its my parents mostly, but when I come home I always head towards the pond first thing to look at the fish!!!

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There this place in Middle Island- Reliable Garden andFence and the people there are so heplful and knowledgeable and the livestock and plants are really great there too. You should take a ride there and talk to them and see what they have. 631 924 8140...bWe have a pond and my DH just got on the web and learned how to do things bough a couple of books and goes and speaks to them at Reliable when he has questions..