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i had this idea take a above ground pool and cut the side wall and uprights in half and install it like that you can find them all over the place when people move then just get a liner then you can have a 15 to 18 feet round pool 24 to 36 in deep and if you are lucky to get the filter to...

i am going to us a small power washer

i have one that has been doing that for a year now it also dos flips and swims upside down every now and then it happens when it gets nerves or scared i was worried at first now i just live with it dos not seem to bother the fish tim

just another warning you need to have some sort of filter after the light to catch the dead allege if you do not you will be feeding the dead allege the the living allege in the pond and defeating the purpose of the light

just a warning do not run the water to fast through the pump i did that to my pond and it was no good it has to run through the light at a slow rate of speed to work look up the name of the pump on line then find the web page they are very helpful good luck

the only problem i had was i was pushing to much water to fast through the uv light and it was not working to kill the allege had to reduce the flow

i am from mass i tryed some thing new this year i took the top of the pump and let it open with no hose so that the thing looks like a small fountain it keeps the water moving fast enough to stop it from freezing it worked great has not frozen solid yet and it is 6+12+4 feet deep

talked to a fish guy at the pet store he said that it happens some times when gold fish eat to much live stuff like worms, smaller fish , to much protein what happens is they get blocked up which pushes on the swim : gladder, he is happy in the tank and every now and then he do...

finally got her and put her in a 30 gal tank with the other 2 fancys she seems to be doing fine just every once and a while she dos summer salts across the tank she is eating good and enjoys the tank so i will just keep her till the time she just floats around and can not survive any more...

my pond is 6+12 and 4 feet deep above ground last year it got about a foot of ice and we had a very cold winter .one month it did not get above 0 only thing i did was keep 2 pumps in it to keep the water moving and every now and then break the ice around the pumps to keep a air hole open...

hi i have a fat fancy gold fish in my pond have had her for about 18 months i take her and the other 2 in for the winter she is about the size of a naval orange the problem is that i noticed that the other day she is nose down in the pond she keeps floating tail up other then that she...

do not know the wife pays the bill for the house i pay for the garage to bad the house is a little closer to the pond than the garage ha ha ha

not to say nothing about the big spiders and very large cockroaches

start by takeing night crawlers and feeding it to them they love them after a couple of days of that take a barb less hook and put a worm on it and if you can get close to them drop a worm to them and get ready to set the hook fast so you can get it in there lip net them fast it...

i keep putting tads in my pond and my fish think they are gum drops they do not last more than a week or so lucky i have a swamp in the back woods to get them for free try putting in a couple of small large mouth bass they will clean up the tads and when they get to big, through them back...