Oh, excellent tip! Thank you!!!
Oh, and your pond? *swoon* It's GORGEOUS! On those 1st 2 pics you posted yesterday, in the 1st pic on the right side there's a pretty plant growing up the right hand side? It's very pretty.
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Oh, excellent tip! Thank you!!!
Oh, and your pond? *swoon* It's GORGEOUS! On those 1st 2 pics you posted yesterday, in the 1st pic on the right side there's a pretty plant growing up the right hand side? It's very pretty.
Thanks all,
PA - Not sre which plantt you are talking about. Is it the floating mat like plant, or the upright, sprialish, thin leaved plant in the main pond part.
The matting floater is Water Forget-me-not. Awesome plant tiny ble flowers in spring and sparatically throughouut the summer. The one in the water is a type of Val. It to gets a cool flower.
PA - Not sre which plantt you are talking about. Is it the floating mat like plant, or the upright, sprialish, thin leaved plant in the main pond part.
The matting floater is Water Forget-me-not. Awesome plant tiny ble flowers in spring and sparatically throughouut the summer. The one in the water is a type of Val. It to gets a cool flower.
Koigarden -
The water quality is kept up form the pump, plants, and filter.
Pump is 4000 gph. 20 different varities of plants in the form of marginals, lillies, and floaters. The filter is a bio-falls (AquascapesPro) loaded w/Water Hyacinth.
The water flows up through the bottom through two blue Malata Mats. It then goes through a mass of Hyacinth roots. The roots are so fiberous that they pretty much trap any and all particulates. I just spray them off w/the hose or dunk them in a bucket of water to clean out the debris. the pond itself is lined with boulders and gravel making a huge beneficial bacteria bed. In spring I add a little dry bacteria that contains several strains of BB and barley extract. Thats all. No chemicals or anything harsh since they are so many fish, (one of them scaleless) and the dogs use it as a large water dish.
The water quality is kept up form the pump, plants, and filter.
Pump is 4000 gph. 20 different varities of plants in the form of marginals, lillies, and floaters. The filter is a bio-falls (AquascapesPro) loaded w/Water Hyacinth.
The water flows up through the bottom through two blue Malata Mats. It then goes through a mass of Hyacinth roots. The roots are so fiberous that they pretty much trap any and all particulates. I just spray them off w/the hose or dunk them in a bucket of water to clean out the debris. the pond itself is lined with boulders and gravel making a huge beneficial bacteria bed. In spring I add a little dry bacteria that contains several strains of BB and barley extract. Thats all. No chemicals or anything harsh since they are so many fish, (one of them scaleless) and the dogs use it as a large water dish.
This is all on a flexible liner? Does the upkeep take hours? I have the room on my lot but don't know if I could do make a pond as awesome as yours. I live in NW Indiana so I have the seasons to contend with-not plants during the half the year, at least. One of my koi-the one named Shamu since he is all black-seems to be scale-less, unlike the other koi. I don't know about that-any info? I think I go and work on my little ponds now.
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Neat! Makes me want to wade in your pond.:grinyes: I always like to wade through the cool waters.
Lupin - your a little far away.
Koigarden - Yes liner, covered with boulders and gravel.
Upkeep would be 1+ hrs. per week. Probally less during the summer when all the plants are ripping (removing extra nutrients form the water and polishing any fine particulates in the root mass of hyacinth) and the trees aren't dropping anything. I however spend more time than that, but never more than 10-15 min. a day. It is really self a contained mini eco-system.
Shake out the skimmer basket every few days, check water level, prune dead foliage, rinse the Hyacinth roots is weekly maint. The mats in the filter can be rinsed monthly (or more if like me since I like to stir things up) I like to sweep the bottom of my pond towards the skimmer every few days. Maybe takes two minutes. I have been using a old Mag Drive 7 on a stick to blow any minor debris collected near the base of the lillies.
I'm a northern suburb of Chicago, same wheather I'm assuming as you in NW IN. I've got plenty of plant pics. of super hardy, mostly native and interesting plants in my pond. All of which will work, literally, for you.
Koigarden - Yes liner, covered with boulders and gravel.
Upkeep would be 1+ hrs. per week. Probally less during the summer when all the plants are ripping (removing extra nutrients form the water and polishing any fine particulates in the root mass of hyacinth) and the trees aren't dropping anything. I however spend more time than that, but never more than 10-15 min. a day. It is really self a contained mini eco-system.
Shake out the skimmer basket every few days, check water level, prune dead foliage, rinse the Hyacinth roots is weekly maint. The mats in the filter can be rinsed monthly (or more if like me since I like to stir things up) I like to sweep the bottom of my pond towards the skimmer every few days. Maybe takes two minutes. I have been using a old Mag Drive 7 on a stick to blow any minor debris collected near the base of the lillies.
I'm a northern suburb of Chicago, same wheather I'm assuming as you in NW IN. I've got plenty of plant pics. of super hardy, mostly native and interesting plants in my pond. All of which will work, literally, for you.
