Water Garden and Fish Pond Care  ... Articles List

Every garden fish pond should be populated with healthy, tame beautiful goldfish or koi or other types of pond fish. Your pond should be hassle free and by working through the articles you'll discover the secrets to easy and pleasurable pond keeping.

• Algae on Pond Sides | How To Move Your Fish Safely?
  Algae on pond sides and What To Do If You Need To Move Your Pond. Algae on sides of pond is normal. Two readers on the same day posed the same question...

• Backyard Ponds | Easier Than A Large Koi Pond
  Backyard Ponds Do Not Need Same Equipment As Large Koi Ponds Need. To be successful in the growing of "jumbo koi" ...

• Fish pond filter biomedia choice for a homemade pond filter
  Fish pond filter biomedia choice for a homemade pond filter has a major impact on pond vitality. Pond filter biomedia choice inside a fish pond filter is critically important...

• Get FREE Calculator | Pond Fish Stock Optimizer
  Get Your FREE Calculator to Work Out The Optimum Amount Of Fish To Stock In Your Pond. Click image to see larger view. Fish stock density calculator. Download. Tony Roocroft's Pond Calculator series...

• Work Out Submersible Pump Flow Rates | Free Calculator
  Get Your FREE Calculator to Work Out Pump flow rates per minute in any units. Convert from different units to the one you want. Click image to see larger view. Download....

• How To Choose The Right Pond Pipe | Free Calculator
  Get Your FREE Calculator How To Choose The Right Pipe Fittings For Your Pond Pump. Click image to see larger view. Download. Tony Roocroft's Pond Calculator series (12 of them)...

• Calculate Fish Pond Volume & Convertor | Free Calculator
  Get Your FREE Complete garden Fish Pond Volume Convertor or calculator. Click image to see larger view. Download. Tony Roocroft's Pond Calculator series (12 of them)...

• How to prevent koi and goldfish dying in green algae pond
  Koi and goldfish dying in green algae pond. need UV and biofilter. Hello, My dad has a very large goldfish pond that is about 20+ years old. Late last summer he started losing his biggest koi one by one...

• Christmas is Coming | Ponds in Southern Hemisphere
  What happens to my pond in the southern hemisphere. The festive season is not very far away. For many of my readers this means traditional Christmas time with cold frosty weather and even snow and that just perfect setting for Father Christmas to arrive in...

• Spring Arrives | Your Water Garden Pond Comes To Life
  Spring Arrives To Your Garden Pond & The Water Garden Starts To Live Again. Top tips for the Month. If youve been dragging out that blanket weed all month and hoiking out oxygenating weed along with it...

• Water Gardens Pond Life & Early Spring Action
  Water Gardens Pond Life and The early Days Of Spring For Your Garden Pond. Here the dismal UK the sun has begun to shine but it has come with cold air from the north and a thick layer of ice is back on all the pools...

• In Your Water Garden This Summer | Bugs & Beasts
  In Your Water Garden This Summer. Bugs, beasts and hot weather. What should be happening in your water garden pond at this time of year? I mentioned leeches...

• Listening to frogs in French water gardens in Summer
  Listening to frogs in French water gardens in Summer. Pond Keeping Jobs In June In Your Water Garden. Dead head early flowers like the Marsh Marigolds and irises...

• Water Gardening Toads & Springtime Frog Stories
  Spring Fish Pond Season and Toads In Your Garden. Plants of the month. On the margins. The Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris and all the species and varieties) are still at it...

• Water gardens and water quality | Beware hot weather
  Using Pond Plants & Especially Oxygenators. Pond Keeping Jobs for the month. Keep your eyes peeled for the herons...

• Pond Keeping & Water Gardening As Winter Approaches
  Pond Keeping and Water Gardening As Winter Approaches Your Garden in November. What to do in the water garden in November. Plants flowering at this time of year?...

• October: Important UK & USA Water Gardening Month
  Most important month in UK Water Gardening & Pond Keeping Calendar Is October. What Should Be Done In Autumn and Fall. It is getting noticeably colder by the day and I been watching the leaves fall for the last 4 weeks now...

• Peat Bogs & Bog Gardens | Water Garden In September
  Now September is a time for clearing off decaying vegetation. Some of the marginals could have been cut back to one third and may have flowered again...

• Spring is close for Northern hemisphere pondkeepers
  Spring is not too far away for our Northern hemisphere friends. Many ponds meet serious problems when weather starts to warm up as it does in Spring....

• Garden Fish Pond Essentials | Submersible Pumps
  The major suppliers of pond equipment in the UK have earned the reputation as the world's best. Water gardening and pond keeping is probably more advanced in the UK than any other country in the world...

• Are You Worried About Mosquitoes In Your Backyard Pond?
  Are You Worried About Mosquitoes In Your Backyard Pond? Don't Be. Fish in a garden Fish pond eat mosquito larvae and mosquitoes do not lay eggs in moving water. Mosquitoes Need Water...

• How To Solve Green Pond Water Problems In Florida USA
  How To Solve Green Pond Water Problems In Florida USA. A person in Florida wrote to me with an interesting observation which I would like to share with everyone...

• Do not use gravel on bottom of a garden fish pond
  You Must not use gravel on bottom of a Fish pond. In any pond at any time there are a range of bacteria present. These bacteria are consuming waste products to survive...

• Helping You Choose The Right Pond Equipment
  Choosing the right pond equipment is not always easy. Ask for help if you need to. I do understand that many people have difficulty specifying correct equipment and even though I have tried to reduce the burden and unknowns it can still be a bit daunting...

• When does a pondkeeper become a koi pond keeper?
  When does a pond keeper or water gardener become a koi keeper? I recently wrote about a lady wanting to sell her young koi but alas could not find any buyers...

• Caring For Your Water Garden In July Mid Summer
  Caring For Your Water Garden In July Mid Summer. If the weather gets really hot and the water in the garden pond is warming up, check to see if the fish are getting lethargic....

• Moving Pond & House |Take Your Goldfish & Koi Along
  Moving House & Taking Your Goldfish & Koi With You. The obvious and immediate consideration is what to do with your fish on the day of your moving house...

• What To Do If You Buy A House with A Fish Pond
  "What To Do If You Buy A House with A Fish Pond. When I leaf through "Koi

• Water Circulation | Pond Filters Needs Oxygen To Work
  Your Koi or Gold Fish Need Oxygen. You Need A Pump & a Water Fall Or Fountain. How Does Oxygen Get Into Water? Important Pond Keeping Concept here. Let's think of a lake large or small it doesn't matter...

• Koi ponds using mesh to protect against herons
  Koi ponds using mesh to protect against herons. I saw a Koi pond recently that was covered in wire mesh - unusually it was at the front of the house, behind a high hedge....

• New To Fish Ponds & Water Gardening | Introduction
  New To Fish Ponds or Water Gardening? You Need A Pump & Pond Filter. My friend Peter J May, one of the UKs top water gardening landscapers puts it best. He says...

• Fall or Autumn is right time to clean the pond out
  Is Fall or Autumn the right time to clean the pond out? It really depends. But first let's explore why you need to clean out the pond at all. Most large koi ponds have what we call bottom drains installed...

• How To Measure Water Garden Pond Depths and Pond Volumes
  How To Measure Water Garden Pond Depths and Pond Volumes. Pond depth is one of those factors in pond building much talked about and misunderstood especially by those people who "mix...

• Should You Use BioStarters or Bacteria Starters In Your Pond?
  Should You Use Bio-Starters or Bacteria Starters In Your Pond Filter. I received a very interesting question from a lady reader this week...

• How To Heat Your Fish Pond Using A Tankless Water Heater
  How To Heat Your Fish Pond Using A Tankless Water Heater. In cold climates typical of lots of the USA, Canada and Northern Europe tankless pond water heaters are used extensively...

• Using Pond Heaters & DeIcers In Winter Ponds
  Using Pond Heaters & De-Icers In winter Ponds. Consider a properly designed circulating water heater for larger ponds and a simple de-icer for smaller ponds...

• Koi Clubs List | Join A Koi Club, Pond or Aquatics Society
  You Might want To Think About Joining A Koi Club, Goldfish Club or Pond Society. One of the many appeals of Fish keeping is that it can be enjoyed by such a wide range of people....

• Introduction To Good Pond Keeping
  Make Sure Your Water Garden Works Well. When a person builds a pond it is to achieve the vision of crystal clear water. The vision normally includes a pond full of colourful fish and attractive aquatic plants...

• Why you need to know the volume of your pond
  2 reasons Why you need to know the volume of your pond. 1. In a lake or natural pond you will find relatively few fish. A natural water system can only cope with a certain fish density in view of limited food sources and biological capacity...

• Mosquitoes in ponds | Do not put sand on pond bottom
  Mosquitoes in ponds & why you should not put sand At bottom of a pond. I received a query from a lady who was concerned about mosquitoes and their larva building up in her pond and then hatching...

• Ponds & water gardens | Not mosquito breeding grounds
  Ponds & water gardens are Not breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Fish in general (not just mosquito fish) in a garden or koi pond eat mosquito larvae and mosquitoes do not lay eggs in moving water...

• How To Protect Baby Pond Fish & Fry
  pond fry and fish eggs from their big brothers. If you have very young fish in danger of being eaten by larger fish you can separate them but still keep them in the same pond until they are a bit bigger as follows...

• Oxygen in Pond Water | More Vital in Summer
  Now Summer's Here Oxygen in Pond Water is even more important. William Kelly gave me permission to publish his article on oxygen...

• An Unusual Aquatic Plant Story | Crocodiles & Triffid Weed
  "I went to the Kruger National Park and discovered a very interesting fact about a "marginal

• Read This Pond Story | Not Your Ordinary Water Feature
  Not Your Ordinary Backyard Pond But A Fish Pond Nevertheless An Ordinary Pond. This story was submitted by Vin Quesnel from Trinidad close to Venezuela. I am a new-comer to ponds...

• Pond Keeping | Caring For Very Large Ponds
  Aerators and Bioaugmentation Using Microbe Lift Products. I got a request for suggestions on a pond of 1 acre in size. Consideration was being given to using a redundant swimming pool as a pond filter...

• Seasonal Pond Keeping | Winter Will End, Promise
  Think About Your pond & Prepare For Spring NOW. The severe winter on the eastern seaboard of the USA has probably not created the mood for most people to start thinking about their ponds but soon the cold...

• Why Is Salt Added To Garden Fish Ponds?
  Salt in a garden fish pond IF it does any good at all is a mild tonic. Its effect IF ANY can only happen over a long period of time. With regular water changes and how do you maintain a salt concentration accurately anyway.

• Testing Pond Water | Should You Test Fish Ponds Regularly?
  This is exactly the problem with pond testing ... people only do it when they think the have a problem. As most books and experts advise ... if you suspect a problem with water quality then immediately test the water and there is nothing wrong with this excellent advice so long as a history of test results for your pond is available for comparison.