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A Tour of China in Winter , The Goldfish Pagoda at Ocean Park, Hong Kong , Part 6b
The Goldfish Pagoda has a large collection of goldfish varieties displayed in a sophisticated manner. A photographic tour.
Above Ground Liner Ponds
This article further describes the increasingly popular use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) liners in producing inexpensive functional water elements; this time in above-ground settings. These liners are very appropriate technology. They cost littl ...
All the Fun of the Fair
A traditional prize gift at fairgrounds in Britain and other countries is a small goldfish. This initiates some people (including the author) into a lifetime of fishkeeping, but others do not treat their fish so well. Les suggests that the practice be regulated.
Asagi/Shusui Koi Varieties
Asagi: ("Sky Color"). Blue gray bodied koi, sometimes with red that comes up to the midway up on the head and body. Shusui: Basically a doitsu scale Asagi. Large scales may be just along the midline of the back on the sides, or both. ...
Bamboo for Ponds
Bamboo is visually pleasing beside a pond. It provides shade, can act as a screen, and can be a barrier to large fishing birds. When pruned its canes have other uses. How to select, plant, and care for the two basic types.
Barley Straw: Nature's Way to Rid Your Pond of String Algae
As the story goes, one warm and sunny summer day, a bale of barley straw fell into a farmer's pond in Scotland. He wasn't particularly worried about the straw in the pond and simply left it there. Several weeks later, the farmer noticed tha ...
Bekko Koi Varieties
Bekko ("Beck-Oh"): Solid body colored koi with black markings. Utsuri are often similar in appearance, but are black koi with single complementary color varieties. I like to think of Bekko as "Turtle" with markings on ...
Biological Pond Filters; Design, Construction, and Maintenance
"What a beautiful pond! Look at the colors of those fish! Your pond is so clean, you must spend hours on it". Ornamental pools can be a beautiful asset to a home and garden, adding pleasing sight, sounds and soothing the nerves. On be ...
Building Concrete & Liner Ponds
There are several appropriate structural technologies available for building water features. Liners of different sorts, polyethylene and other plastic pre-made basins, wood & metal tubs, bituminous-asphaltum material, fiberglass and resin; ...
Building Liner Ponds
Surprisingly enough, it is usually in mid-summer that many gardeners begin to think about installing a small pond or water garden. Ponds don't need to be weeded or watered, and they can supply exuberant color in the form of water lilies and ...
Butterfly Koi
Butterfly Koi: A long finned making of all the other varieties of koi. The name "Butterfly" is appended to the front of the Japanese designation. Enlarged pectoral fins of a Butterfly Doitsu Taisho Sanke koi. ...
Buying and Housing Your Goldfish
People buying goldfish as pets should select varieties according to beauty rather than whether they match up to show standards. Water in ponds and tanks should be mature before being gradually stocked.
Charlie's Pond
It may only be September but cold weather will be here sooner than you think. Many people had bad losses last winter. Most of these could have been prevented if only a little care had been taken. In mid October or very soon after, the cold ...
Check Valves or , I wish I had all the money in burnt out and flooded pumps...
When using an emerged versus a submersed pump on a water feature there is a field of technology everyone should be familiar with: the use of check valves in plumbing. Check valves or one-way valves are devices that hold water static in plumbing w ...
Chemical Safety
The following piece is offered to provide some guidelines for safety in dealing with chemicals commonly encountered in maintaining water effects. The concentrations and volumes involved may change, the need for caution and safety is the same. All ...
Classic Pond Fish
All photos taken in June of 2005at Aquatics Unlimited.LAST UPDATE: 8/4/05 - Please call or stop in for current availability Comet Goldfish: THE classic pond fish, nice golden/orange color and very hardy. True "comets" ...
Cleaning Pond Filter Cartridges
Some sale now! Oh how we used to smile knowingly and rub our hands together, seeing a customer come into the shop with a prematurely worn out filter element. I wish I had all the money in filter sleeves and cartridges that aquatic gardeners are go ...
Complete Cleaning, Acid and Bleach Washing
"Yee-uck", "Be careful not to slip in the mucky-muck", goes a typical pond-cleaning conversation as the participants sink into the "primordial ooze". How many times have I been called on too aid a desperate fellow pon ...
Concrete and Block Construction of Ponds
As you've seen, there are several methods of building water effects. Some applications call out for a formal, geometric shape. For leisurely, even solitary pace and timely ease, among other substantive reasons, use of block, mortar, concrete and o ...
Constructing Ponds in Sandy Soil
Sandy soils can be a blessing in pond construction, allowing for easier digging, forming of basins, and laying of conduits for water and electricity, and providing quick drainage of misplaced water. If you've ever dug holes in both hard and soft s ...
Container Water Gardens
What does it take to "have" an aquatic garden? Really? Just a water-holding container that won't negatively react chemically with the garden's inhabitants. Yes, that's all. By this definition everyone may enjoy water effects, of any si ...
Converting Swimming Pools, Spas to Biological Ponds
Imagine (finally) having enough space, volume in your water garden to do all the planting, fish stocking, culturing you’ve ever wanted. What, you say, there’s no room back there with the swimming pool. Well, this is exactly the body in ...
Designing Your Aquatic Garden
An aquatic system cannot be constructed or operated any better than it's initial design. This statement is inarguable fact, and yet, few of us treat projects as separate entities in a/the planning phase. This is the time to seek out, gather, rumin ...
Doitsu Koi Varieties
Doitsu: Mirrored scaled koi... with enlarged rows of scales along the midline of the back and/or the sides of the fish. The derivation of this name is from the Japanese/Nijongo for "Deutsch", for German scaled carp... initially bred for ...
Electricity and Electrical use Around Water Gardens
What sort of hobby would we have without electricity? No pumps, lights, heaters, & other myriad utility-smile-generating devices? No fun, and lots of work. Alas, there are some folks who get along without fuel bills; and indoor plumbing ...
Emphysematosis, Gas Bubble Disease
The following is a murder-mystery involving ornamental pond fish and a periodic lethal environmental disease. You are witness to these events, in first person, as they unfold: "Hey Bob, have you seen the Manual to the DREL-1?" (Hach Spe ...
Evolution of the GAAS North American Goldfish Championship
The Grahams were instrumental in developing America's premier goldfish competition, which is held in Akron, Ohio each year.
Example Systems: Lake Helix
"Now that's a pond!" At four surface acres (43,560 square feet per acre) and 22 feet deep, what couldn't you do with such a body of water? Actually, in the Far East I've seen aquaculture "ponds" of several thousand hectares (ea ...
Example Systems: San Diego Technical Pond
World-class Japanese gardens all bear certain hallmarks; meticulous plantings hand cultivated to be pleasing in view from all angles; seemingly natural, perfectly placed rockwork; and water effects as a central element. Such is the case with this ...
Example Systems: Sorrento Valley Pond
There are many "production" water features here in southern California; mostly hailing from the good old days pre-dating the tax law changes of 1986" when developers could better afford the luxury of extensive landscape embellishmen ...