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Pond Chat / Re: UGLY h2o

« on: April 03, 2010, 01:18:53 PM »

plants plants plants plants
do you have some type of plant life?

i have found that most brown algae is from lack of plants and too much fish!!!

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Pond Chat / Re: You know your a ponder when...

« on: April 03, 2010, 01:10:34 PM »

all the pics on your computer and your background are of those new pink tropical lilies!

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Pond Chat / Re: planting pond plants

« on: April 03, 2010, 01:07:26 PM »

i use a rectangular kitchen wash plastic bin that is about 8 inches long, 16 wide, and 5 inches tall

i keep irises and rushes
they are in a mixture of garden soil and black dirt, and grow like crazy
i use burlap and pea gravel over the dirt to keep it from going into the pond and causing an algae bloom

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Pond Chat / Re: Water fertilizer

« on: April 03, 2010, 01:04:02 PM »

do you mean potash?

or actually ash from a pot?(no joke)

yes potash is very beneficial

what you want is an npk fert that is preferably high in nitrogen

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 15, 2009, 01:32:10 PM »

i havent bought something from lowes
plant wise for over 3 years!
 most grasses they sell are very aggresive
most of theses prairie plants are very
passive and wont spread much
except for jeruselum artichoke
and maximilian sunflower

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 15, 2009, 05:15:28 AM »

thats a hard one, i dont know a whole lot of pacific northwest forbs
but i do have some that are native to your region that i have
little bluestem

side oats grama

nodding onion

western shooting star

some types of NATIVE( ) geraniums

harebell

stiff stem flax

wild bergamot

maximilian sunflower gets tall!

jerusalem artichoke(its not actually an artichoke)

Spotted joe pye weed(its not a weed )

new england aster(one of the best!)

now if you research these, make sure you type in exactly the name i put in
there are closely related members to thses that wouldnt do so good in your climate
you can find pictures on the web or i can post pictures from my prairie garden, or the web

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 14, 2009, 07:31:56 PM »

im sorry whats pnw?
most of these plants have large ranges
i have many grasses and forbs(flowers)that tolerate
many conditions

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 11, 2009, 04:53:28 PM »

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Well then flyhawk I guess I can grow them. I am in zone 7. Thanks, Janice
[/quote]s?
are you intrested in in growing prairie plants? if you are, then i can tell you some of what i did

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 10, 2009, 05:26:21 PM »

yeah, ive gotten the bass to feed out of my hands!
ill put a worm on my finger tips and he will come up and snap at the worm, and usually also bite my fingers along with it! it gives me quite a scare!
i do love my bluegill to!

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 10, 2009, 05:19:59 PM »

what zone?
im in zone 4.
all those plants are prairie plants, and can
survive low temps
and thanks for the remarks!!!!!!!

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 10, 2009, 11:19:41 AM »

another

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 10, 2009, 11:18:29 AM »

pic from 08 in the summer1

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Pond Chat / Re: crazy fish

« on: May 09, 2009, 05:36:56 PM »

thanks for the posts!
our pond is about 14 feet by 20 feet with a 4 foot deep section.
It actually was a toad, i saw him lunge ate it. no disrespect, but i do know the difference between toads and frogs besides, we havent seen any frogs around the pond for ages
flyhawk-not much of a story- when i was young i loved red tailed hawks-still do!
they are my birth animal!
so when i was young, while i was playing a fighter jet game on the computer, i came up with the name "flyhawk"

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Pond Chat / crazy fish

« on: May 08, 2009, 07:12:44 PM »

so, ive been part of this forum for over a year, and i still havent posted, so today i decided to break tive had  a pond for about 3 years, and its everything ive dreamed of.
Today i saw something crazy though. in my pond i have bluegill and a small bass. today i noticed the bass with two toad legs sticking out of its mouth! it ate a toad! i couldnt believe it!

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Pond Chat / Re: Do you feed your fish?

« on: June 13, 2008, 10:37:31 AM »

i have 4 large goldfish, 2 bluegills, and a young bass. i never feed them on a daily bases. i do occasionally give them a nightcrawler treat. as long as you have either snails, tadpoles, algae or plants, the goldfish will feed off those. my gold fish are fat, and theyve never tasted flake food!

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Pond Construction & Filtration / Re: Hiding a filterfalls

« on: June 12, 2008, 02:54:34 PM »

dont get me started..... ok we have an old 55 gallon little pond, at the top of the water fall, filled with lava stone. its a great filter. its sorruonded by rocks so its totally natural looking, and it cost us......$5.00!!!

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Pond Construction & Filtration / Re: What is in the bottom of your pond.............

« on: June 12, 2008, 02:50:30 PM »

my pond has a 2 foot, 1 foot, and a three fot section. the 1 ft is covered in small gravel, but theres not alot showing because i have alot of marginals. My 2ft is covered in a thin layer of gravel, but theres also a layer of muck for weed growth. i also have alot of lilies so i cant see the bottom. my 3ft section under the water fall, has large stones for fish to hide in and cool of in in the deep waters of the pond.

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Pond Chat / Re: Bluegill

« on: June 12, 2008, 12:03:32 PM »

i have a 2500 gallon pond with 2 bluegill and a young bass. they eat all the snails and tadpoles in our pond , and its funny cause they will get really fat, and chubby!!! the bass will also eat young goldfish, and i will find heads of baby goldfish in the pond

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Photo Album / Re: WEEDS - They can be pretty too.

« on: June 12, 2008, 11:54:17 AM »

hey, some of those fields of weeds you should, well some were prairie plants and i love prairie plants