Sept 23, 2009

Wow a whole year and no pond blogging, I suck.

Will start again, so I can keep track of what we do.

Got to buy the fall food. Yesterday I cleaned the sand

in the filter. Have to find an alternative to sand next year.

This is a picture of the pond and surroundings( my mom took the pic with her new digital camera)

 

This is a picture of the wall with some plants

End of August

With Labor Day tmrw, trying to battle a little more algae than what we were used too.

Did a 10 percent water change and cleaned sand filter.

Did ph and ammonia check numbers good.

Trees starting to dump leaves in the pond daily, gotta get them out.

Plants

The plants we bought at Lowes are doing great.

They were all about 5 inches tall and now they

growing out of the 5 gallon buckets we put in the pond!








Alot of algae has been floating on top of the water

but the fish do not seem to mind.

Pond 2008

When I met Janice she had an in-ground pool that was a mosquito factory!

We drained and cleaned it, threw in some feeders to get started and added some plants and

decorations.

This is our third year and Janice and I decided to blog about our pond.

Here are some pictures to show our progress so far.

Pool to pond conversion - 2006


And now it looks like this - 2008!

Livestock: 9 goldfish-6 to 9 inches

6 shubunkins-6 to 8 inches

3 pondcomets-6 to 8 inches

2 fancy goldfish-4 inches

5 various koi- 12 to 20 inches

30 mosquito fish- 1 to 2 inches

20 offspring- mixed species

20 to 30 trapdoor snails

2 freshwater shrimp- never seen again after adding to pond

1 channel catfish- 6 inches

frog