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Pond Chat / Re: I'm looking for some feedback..

« on: April 06, 2008, 05:22:24 PM »

If possible I had would have a minimum of 3 Customer Testimonials. Best of luck! 

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Pond Chat / Re: It Was A CAT Eating My Fish

« on: September 09, 2007, 02:15:51 PM »

Sorry I don't have the video but "Cats Catch and Eat Fish", I've seen it as well as "Cats Catching and Eating Birds" and "Cats Catching and Eatting Squirrels" ......... the only thing I've seen them do worth praise was"Catching and Eating Snakes"

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Chit Chat / Re: I couldn't wait to tell you

« on: August 01, 2007, 05:09:39 PM »

What wonderful  news and people that have blessed your family... I'll be praying for a "Second Helping" for you all! 

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Pond Chat / Re: Mayla is blooming

« on: July 24, 2007, 01:33:46 PM »

Nice!

I hope ours blooms 

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Pond Chat / Re: Red flare

« on: July 16, 2007, 03:45:41 PM »

Yes lets see a shot of the entire pond from the side if you please.... I hope are Red Flare blooms.... yours are nice

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond Bog Idea

« on: July 14, 2007, 10:55:25 AM »

Can't blame you for the "Bog" idea, they are quite tempting. Tim God has a thread started in the "Bog Gardens" section and can give you his personal expierience and suggestions. He linked a site about pond constuction http://www.nelsonwatergardens.com/data/resources/other/1_Bog%20Filter%20Construction.pdf and from what I understand from them is that your bog area needs to cover 10 to 20 percent of the surface of your pond area however they suggest having no standing water above the gravel.... good luck and keep us up to date on the make over.

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Pond Chat / Re: How Do You Catch Fish Out of Your Pond?

« on: July 13, 2007, 03:19:57 PM »

I recently relocated ours and found this to be true in my case..... the bigger the fish, the easier to catch. I found that the drag of the net through the water limited my snatching ability so if I wasn't able to snatch him in the first 6 to 12 inches of movement in the water then the fish was gone.

After about a dozen fish the best tactic for me was to cut off the angles of the fish escape areas from a distance and then to slowly move in continuing to react to his movement and continuing to cover the angles from which he can escape.... fish moves... net moves to reduce angles of escape.... fish moves.... net moves to reduce angles of escape.... eventually the fish will make a mistake and he can be easily netted with no harm to fish or fisherman.

Good luck and happy fishing

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Pond Chat / Re: Thank You Perplexed Ponder - Mayla in bloom!

« on: July 13, 2007, 03:09:06 PM »

Mayla is an exceptional lilly...... One of the few I want..... I know you're thrilled with yours, congratulations!

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Pond Chat / Re: New Hybrid day 2, much happier with it today...

« on: July 13, 2007, 03:04:44 PM »

Very nice Sean!

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Pond Chat / Re: Tim, Kat, some of you lily Guru's can u answer this?

« on: July 07, 2007, 07:09:07 PM »

I think I have it now  ....... but why do I have the feeling I'll kill everything anyway 

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Pond Chat / Re: Tim, Kat, some of you lily Guru's can u answer this?

« on: July 07, 2007, 03:17:38 PM »

.........so if I understand correcty,

Tropicals are more sensitive to temperature and depth than Hardy's?

Gradual steps in lowering the depth over the crown of tropicals?

The bigger the pot the bigger the plant in both tropicals and Hardy's?

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Pond Chat / Re: A Visit with LeeAnne

« on: July 04, 2007, 03:36:45 PM »

Nice Shots and thanks for sharing them.

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Chit Chat / Re: Going to get this today

« on: July 04, 2007, 08:44:41 AM »

Look forward to the upcoming pix and good luck following the directions on the camera itself and then the hardware and software to get the pix uploaded.........

My heart and prayers go out to Braeden and family.

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Chit Chat / Re: Going to get this today

« on: July 03, 2007, 04:51:08 PM »

Congratulations on your new Camera Esther! 

2 questions though... Where's the pix?

and couldn't you have made a camera a lot cheaper using PVC? 

..... but seriously you never cease to amaze me with the ideas you turn into reality, the most recent being the fountain topper..... BTW, Do you have a son named McGiver who had his own TV Show?

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Bog Gardens / Re: New Koi Pond with Bog Garden Incorporated

« on: July 01, 2007, 07:28:27 AM »

Thanks Tim....... I have a small drill bit for ceramic but......... any and all ideas for creating an 1 1/4" hole in a ceramic/clay pot without cracking the pot are welcome.  

BTW Tim The bog is nicer with every shot you post

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Bog Gardens / Re: New Koi Pond with Bog Garden Incorporated

« on: June 30, 2007, 05:20:21 PM »

First of all Tim thanks for all of the photos and how to's on the Bog.... we all but built one this year and don't doubt we end up with one in the future.... I think they are great.

Do have a question on your flower pot that is on its side, I assume it is clay or ceramic and has water trickling out of it so the question is how did you make the hole for it, where is the hose coming in, do you have some gravel in it etc. etc.

Thanks Jim

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Pond Chat / Re: Replying to Posts

« on: June 30, 2007, 05:10:30 PM »

Well I guess everyone is basically the same.... most of the time I don't reply because I don't want to make a complete a$$ of myself while other times I reply just to be a pain in the a$$..... 

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Pond Chat / Re: $ 12.00 Harbor Freight Pump is a gem

« on: June 29, 2007, 03:53:22 PM »

What is the Web Site address for Harbor Freight? It's not this is it?

Harbor Freight Tools
Sells a wide variety of power and industrial tools.
Harbor Freight Tools near you
www.harborfreight.com - 60k - Cached

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Pond Chat / Re: Does this look like Attraction?

« on: June 20, 2007, 04:44:09 PM »

Pretty Lilly.......our Attraction did not look like that.

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Pond Chat / Re: Submersible Pump Flow///Cleaning the pump

« on: June 20, 2007, 02:13:37 PM »

Thanks again for the replies. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on a little known secret about submersible's......... I had a feeling this might end up in the "Stuff Happens" file.

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond has cleared ... finally!

« on: June 19, 2007, 06:50:40 PM »

Meant to comment on the clarity of your water the other day, it is exceptional.

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Pond Chat / Re: Submersible Pump Flow///Cleaning the pump

« on: June 19, 2007, 06:47:58 PM »

Thanks for te replies. Yes I clean inside the cover and remove the propellor and all... I was wondering if I was missing something as all by itself it increased its output to 100%.

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Chit Chat / Re: An angel in our family was called home today.

« on: June 19, 2007, 03:38:15 PM »

Your line of thinking and beliefs are right on track..... all will be in my prayers

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Chit Chat / Re: can you read this?

« on: June 19, 2007, 03:34:50 PM »

unfortunately, upside down it says: SHADOWS do 77VM, and that just doesn't make much sense!

It would make perfect sense if "SHADOWS do 77VM" was the name of their Album/CD

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Pond Chat / Submersible Pump Flow///Cleaning the pump

« on: June 19, 2007, 03:27:24 PM »

I have a question for those familiar with submersible pumps as ours has me stumped. We have a 1 year old Pond Master 950 submersible and roughly 3 months ago it lost some of its output volume. I cleaned it by running the garden hose spray through it and even took the Vortex off to make sure everything visible was removed. It helped some but the volume was less.

Roughly 2 weeks ago the pump resumed to its origianal output volume by itself and now two weeks later it looks like it has lost a little output........

The question is, How do you clean your submersible pump and or is there a trick to keeping the output volume up?

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Chit Chat / Re: Look what we got for FREEEEE

« on: June 18, 2007, 02:51:48 PM »

Resourcefull, talented..... the entire yard looks very good.

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Chit Chat / Re: Had a new implant today, no not boobs!

« on: June 18, 2007, 02:48:11 PM »

No, No on the hearing loss implant....... that was just a good acting job by Jerry.... I thought he couldn't hear well either! 

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Chit Chat / Re: Rain

« on: June 03, 2007, 08:03:42 AM »

3 1/2  inches of Glorious rain Saturday thanks to "Barry" the God sent tropical storm.... it was absolutely wonderful to hear it, see it, and smell it.......... almost forgot how it was...............

Toads loved the rain so much that they had them a "Love-In" in the pond...... they had eggs everywhere and weren't through when I went out there early this morning........ Grabbed the net and removed 15 toads (1 "Love-In" fatality....drowning victim) and finaly stopped when I realized the herd was coming back to the pond and jumping back in "Piggy-Back"..... the fish will again love the toadscargoe this year.

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Chit Chat / Re: Craw Dads

« on: May 30, 2007, 04:56:07 PM »

Have you tried using a Cajun?

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Chit Chat / Re: Congratulations to ourselves!

« on: May 30, 2007, 04:53:37 PM »

I'm sure Major Leauge Baseball is thrilled but I find it boring and watch the highlights on ESPN.