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Nishikigoi Bloodlines
One of the most common similarities amongst Koi Keepers is that despite the reams and reams of information about Koi available they always seem to want to search out just a little bit more. It is just as well I ...
Understanding Pathogenic Bacteria
One of the most important things in keeping your pond and your fish healthy is understanding pathogenic bacteria. There are a wide variety of pathogenic bacteria that can infect your pond. By far the most common are Aeromonas and Pseudomonas. These t ...
"NOW OR LATERS" A Simple Lesson In Koi Development
I won't say just how long ago, but recently I had the opportunity to attend my 10 year class reunion. These are always fun because we get to see how our classmates have changed, developed, or "finished&q ...
"The System" that "The Answer" was Design For
Ya'll have heard me say its all about "systems" and not individual components. So let's look at "the system" that "The Answer" was design for, shall we? The Answer was designed for ...
About Koi Fish
About Koi Fish Koi fish, or Nishikigoi, are the product of several centuries of selective breeding of the common brown Asian carp and the German carp. The first color mutations appeared about 1805. Koi are available in all colo ...
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 ...
Algae are the "weeds" of the water garden
Plants , Circulation/Aeration , Mechanical Filtration , Water Treatments for Cleaner, Clearer Ponds ..
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. ...
Autumn Care Guide , for Garden Ponds
As most terrestrial gardeners know, autumn is not only the time to wrap things up from this year's endeavors, but also the time to set things up to get a great start on next year's. An hour or two of preventive maintenance in October can make a lot of difference in what a pond will look like in May.
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 for Ponds
What does barley straw do? We have sold many units of these product in the past few seasons, and have heard from many customers that the proper use of barley straw led to much cleaner, clearer water in their ponds. Is barley straw an algicide? N ...
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. ...
Carbohydrate and Koi
Some interesting facts on carbohydrate that koi keepers may be interested in – after all we feed our koi carbohydrate each and every day. Not only this, but we feed carbohydrate several times a day. The b ...
Caring for Koi - Seasonal Issues
Preface The following are excerpts from the Water Quality Seminar hosted by Olympic Koi Club on February 19, 2000 featuring Tony Prew (noted filter specialist) and Dick Benbow (noted water quality expert.) The article is written from ...
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 ...
De-Icers , for Garden Ponds
Pond De-Icers are used to keep a "breathing hole" in the ice that covers a garden pond during the winter months. This allows toxic gases, caused by the breakdown of organic waste products in the pond, to escape and oxygen to be replenished ...