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Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:28 ]
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So, we have one and not much idea about what to do with it. There are eight goldfish in it, and I believe we are not supposed to feed them when it goes below 10C. We have what I believe is a UV filter and I can download the pdf instructions for that, so not too concerned. But other than that, is there anything else we should know or be doing?

Author:  Mr Dave [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:34 ]
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Swimming with them to prevent loneliness.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:39 ]
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Aww, that would be lovely Dave, you would make their pond bigger! :D

Author:  Bobbyaro [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:45 ]
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Only one?

Author:  markg [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 13:05 ]
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They pretty much look after themselves once they're established, just take out dead leaves and things that fall in there and remove anything that starts over-growing, if the water stops flowing well then the pump filter is probably blocked. We had some koi in ours but they got too big so we sold them and now there's a nice community of frogs in there.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 13:14 ]
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Goddess Jasmine wrote:
Aww, that would be lovely Dave, you would make their pond bigger! :D

I was thinking more Joans.
Ice baths are all the rage these days.

Author:  myp [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 13:15 ]
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Have you got four giant dog turds in the garden though?

Author:  asfish [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 13:25 ]
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At this time of year, you should have a look at the pond pump systems and clean out the filter. Also, you mentioned a UV filter, in mine, there is a bulb that does this and its always popped by early February so if you have similar then look at changing that, any Maidenhead Aquatics shop will have the bulbs.

Your fish look good and as mentioned when established will look after themselves, I have food as well and chuck a handful in a couple of times a week.

At this time of year, I can't tell from your picture what aquatic plants you might have in there, the pond does look very open so maybe think of a rock formation the fish can hide under to avoid the Heron? I've had my pond cleaned out twice by our local one.

Nice natural looking pond :)

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 14:09 ]
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Thanks Markg and Asfish, that makes me feel a bit better.

I had done some reading around, but it felt really wrong to not be feeding them!

Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 17:07 ]
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markg wrote:
We had some koi in ours but they got too big so we sold them and now there's a nice community of frogs in there.

BREXIT MEANS BREXIT

Author:  Mimi [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 17:18 ]
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markg wrote:
We had some koi in ours but they got too big so we sold them and now there's a nice community of frogs in there.

Beware Paul McCartneys.

Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 17:21 ]
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Mimi wrote:
markg wrote:
We had some koi in ours but they got too big so we sold them and now there's a nice community of frogs in there.

Beware Paul McCartneys.

You'll be alright if you ALL... STAND... TOGETHER!

Author:  Mimi [ Fri Jan 26, 2018 17:32 ]
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Bom bom.

Author:  BikNorton [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 18:29 ]
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Our pond has newts and dragonfly larvae in it. It's awesome.

We should fix the pump though.

Author:  TheVision [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 18:43 ]
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I have a pond full of newts that look after themselves. One day I'm going to fill it in.

Author:  Grim... [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 18:44 ]
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Fuck those newts in particular.

Author:  TheVision [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 18:46 ]
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Yeah, that's the spirit! What have these newts ever done for us? Nothing.. That's what!

Author:  asfish [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 20:18 ]
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BikNorton wrote:
Our pond has newts and dragonfly larvae in it. It's awesome.

We should fix the pump though.


I have a separate pond for wildlife, a few years ago I had fish in both, I found frogs where trying to kill my goldfish as they would eat their spawn.

I found a frog who had got onto the top of one fish and was holding it at the bottom of the pond.

So all the fish went into one pond and every year I move frogspawn and any frogs I find into the wildlife pond, this is getting less of an activity each year.

Still have newts in with the fish.

Author:  krazywookie [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 22:08 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Yeah, that's the spirit! What have these newts ever done for us? Nothing.. That's what!

Newts are newt the problem, get those frogeiners out!
FROGSIT MEANS FROGSIT!

Author:  markg [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 22:36 ]
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asfish wrote:
BikNorton wrote:
Our pond has newts and dragonfly larvae in it. It's awesome.

We should fix the pump though.


I have a separate pond for wildlife, a few years ago I had fish in both, I found frogs where trying to kill my goldfish as they would eat their spawn.

I found a frog who had got onto the top of one fish and was holding it at the bottom of the pond.

So all the fish went into one pond and every year I move frogspawn and any frogs I find into the wildlife pond, this is getting less of an activity each year.

Still have newts in with the fish.

You think the frogs set about murdering the goldfish in a quest for revenge over their spawn?

Author:  DBSnappa [ Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:03 ]
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TheVision wrote:
I have a pond full of newts that look after themselves. One day I'm going to fill it in.

They’re a protected species...

Author:  DBSnappa [ Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:04 ]
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asfish wrote:
BikNorton wrote:
Our pond has newts and dragonfly larvae in it. It's awesome.

We should fix the pump though.


I have a separate pond for wildlife, a few years ago I had fish in both, I found frogs where trying to kill my goldfish as they would eat their spawn.

I found a frog who had got onto the top of one fish and was holding it at the bottom of the pond.

So all the fish went into one pond and every year I move frogspawn and any frogs I find into the wildlife pond, this is getting less of an activity each year.

Still have newts in with the fish.


...as are frogs

Author:  asfish [ Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:48 ]
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Quote:
You think the frogs set about murdering the goldfish in a quest for revenge over their spawn?


That's what I read online at the time, they said that the frogs will try and blind the fish

Now all I can find is people saying that the frog is mistaking the fish for a lady frog and will "hop off" in a few days once it realizes its mistake :)

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Feb 18, 2018 19:44 ]
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We think we have about 10 babies! :o

How do you know if there are too many fish in the pond? We now have at least 20. ?:|

Author:  myp [ Sun Feb 18, 2018 19:52 ]
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It's ok. The pond grows to the number of fish you have, I believe.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Feb 18, 2018 19:53 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
It's ok. The pond grows to the number of fish you have, I believe.

:D

Author:  Mr Dave [ Sun Feb 18, 2018 20:10 ]
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Goddess Jasmine wrote:
We think we have about 10 babies! :o

How do you know if there are too many fish in the pond? We now have at least 20. ?:|


When the fish rise up against their human oppresors.

Author:  Warhead [ Mon Feb 19, 2018 14:20 ]
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Goddess Jasmine wrote:
We think we have about 10 babies! :o

How do you know if there are too many fish in the pond? We now have at least 20. ?:|


Nice to see you have the obligatory Tesco plastic bag in there, just like all the big ponds and lakes in public parks. But you do need to add a couple of empty Foster's cans.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 17:37 ]
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Warhead wrote:
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
We think we have about 10 babies! :o

How do you know if there are too many fish in the pond? We now have at least 20. ?:|


Nice to see you have the obligatory Tesco plastic bag in there, just like all the big ponds and lakes in public parks. But you do need to add a couple of empty Foster's cans.

We didn't dare remove it incase it upset anything. Although the pond has gone so crazy you can't see it any more. In fact, you can't really see much of anything!

So, we are going to do some diagnosis Breaking Bad style.

Author:  TheVision [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 17:52 ]
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Oh yeah, I've started the process of getting rid of my pond. Because of the hot weather, it's mostly dried out so I've dug a load of sludge out and drilled some holes in the bottom of one section. It's very substantial and is going to take some getting rid of.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 18:29 ]
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Our water levels have been dropping quickly. I did wonder if we had torrential rain and flooding if they would end up over the lawn.

Author:  MaliA [ Fri Jul 13, 2018 22:48 ]
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I drove past the reservoirs outside Glossop today (twice, fact fans) and they were really, really,low. Most of the water was being held in the top one,the lower one was basically mud flats.

Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:55 ]
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MaliA wrote:
I drove past the reservoirs outside Glossop today (twice, fact fans) and they were really, really,low. Most of the water was being held in the top one,the lower one was basically mud flats.

Meh, they get like that every year. Come October, they'll be overflowing again.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 14:01 ]
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We did all the tests on the water today, and it all seems fine. We topped up the water level too, I think it could do with just a bit more though. Blanket weed seems to be our main issue, so we can focus on getting that sorted out now.

Author:  asfish [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 16:15 ]
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Goddess Jasmine wrote:
We did all the tests on the water today, and it all seems fine. We topped up the water level too, I think it could do with just a bit more though. Blanket weed seems to be our main issue, so we can focus on getting that sorted out now.


You can get stuff for Blanket weed not cheap if I recall :)

Top the pond as high as you can, it will drop in this heat, I'm topping mine up once a week.

Author:  BikNorton [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 19:55 ]
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Blanket weed, other algae and to a lesser extent duck weed can be controlled using barley straw bales. As they decompose they release hydrogen peroxide and other stuff; algae can't cope with the minute pH changes but fish, newts and so on are fine.

So we're told anyway, we've got some to try.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Jul 15, 2018 20:03 ]
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It turns out that the UV filter also has the spongy bits that need to be cleaned out. :facepalm: we had a go and it pumped out a lot of thick green sludge for a while, but seems to be running clear now. Of course we then had to top up the pond again. :D We pulled out some more blanket weed and have a treatment arriving tomorrow.

I did read about the hay, and we might try that if this doesn't work, but I'm hoping that clearing out the filters will help to make a difference. It seems to be a situation where prevention is definitely better than cure, but I suppose it's all a learning curve.

Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:34 ]
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Well the pond has cleared by a depth of at least 18 inches over night. I can see stuff I had forgotten was there - as well as the fish! They came straight for food this morning too, probably because they can actually see it now...

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