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In my pond on the lilly pads their are little bugs spreading all over them, I know they are bugs because they cam be wiped off but they come back within a day, and they look like aphids. Does anyone know of some sort of spray I could use that wouldn't harm the fish in the pond?

Now for my topic post I wanted to do a developing diary of the construction of my pond to the present time where I am pretty satisfied with it, although it may still need a fish or two (Preferably a mostly red shubunkin :D ), LOL. Here's where we manually broke ground and dug it out in late...

Have dojos ever been bred in captivity? If not (or so) how do they procreate? Are they egglayers, and if so where do they lay their eggs? If anyone knows anything about breeding weather loaches (dojos) I would really appreciate it if you told me.

Could anyone please recommend a site for me to identify the species of the guppies sold to me as "Mosquito fish?" I realize that there are many different species of guppy sold as mosquito fish, but every site I find is only informative about fancy guppies, does anyone know a site where I might...

My pond is dug into the ground and a gravel-vac or python or whatever it is called just doesn't seem to cut it. Not enough suction is created since the nozzle is oftenly lower then the end of the tube where the water is supposed to go out of, so how do you guys do water changes and clean the...

Has anyone ever heard of the Garra kempi? It's common name is Kemp's Algae Eater and I am having a hard time locating any information on it.

I have heard different information on these fish. One place said they aren't as aggressive as commonly thought, another said as long as they are in a school of 5 or more they are peaceful fish. Another contraversy I found was size and temperature preferance, one says they grow to 2.5" and...

Is it okay to plant these in gravel? How much light do they need? Would these do allright in a pond, I live in zone 8B?

Okay I recall this being discussed before, unfortuantely I can not locate the thread. So what is the best type of string used to tie a java fern, and java fern to a piece of driftwood? If I remember correctly I think someone recommended black yarn since it would disentigrate or something? Any...

Okay I have a 500 gallon pond with about 15-20 goldfish in it (commons and comets) and I really would like to take away the fountain that is disrupting the surface of the water, making it hard to see the fish and not giving the plants enough sunlight. The fountain is an extension from the filter...

I want to find out what zone (or whatever the term is for it) I live in so that I can find out if certain plants would survive in my pond. Does anyone know of a site better than this one http://www.swedesdock.com/pondzone.sht because it just does not seem right.

Okay, so I don't want to use chemicals, I doubt that plecos would work since I have no indoor aquariums. So is there any type of fish/water creatures that would do fine in an outdoor pond with a few comets/common goldfish that would eat the string algae? If not then what is this barley straw...

I have heard that when the temperature gets lower than 55-50 degrees farenhiet that you should no longer feed your fish since their metabolism is so slow that the food will rot in their stomach, causing internal parasites and commonly death, is this true? Then it is suggested that they can...

Okay heres the situation: I have a 540 gallon pond planted with anacharis, water lettuce, java moss, and java ferns. The fish currently in it are 4 weather loaches, 6 bronze cory cats, around 30 mosquito fish, about 30 assorted goldfish not including koi. So what would the best pleco or algea...

Okay so I have heard somewhere on this board that someon had a 1" dragonfly larvae attack their 6" fish. So are dragonflys, water skippers, or boat bugs bad for fish? I have common, comet, and oranda goldfish in my 540g. pond and I saw dragonflys breeding over it and saw a boat bug swimming...