What you might not realize is spring is the most crucial time for your koi and goldfish. During the winter, your fish are very low-maintenance. They’re metabolism slows down, they don’t eat and they lay dormant at the bottom of …
When purchasing new fish for your backyard pond or water garden, it’s important for you to understand how to properly acclimate your fish to their new surroundings. While this may sound complicated, you can easily and effectively put fish in …
When choosing the right fish for your backyard water garden, it usually comes down to preference. However, it may be helpful for you to explore the types of fish that are the easiest to maintain and the hardest to maintain …
How can you keep your fish protected from the pond pump in your backyard pond? Fish safety is an important aspect of being a pond-owner. It is your responsibility to properly feed your fish and protect them from weather fluctuations …
When you are creating a backyard water garden, there are so many decisions you have to make. What size pond do you want? Where are you going to put it? What kind of water features should you add? What kind …
Pond Fish health is directly related to water quality and proper nutrition. Keep the pH between 6.8 and 8.0. Monitor the pond water quality for ammonia and nitrite. They must always be zero. Any measurable ammonia or nitrite indicates over-feeding or too many …
Keeping a beautiful, healthy environment in your fish pond is easy, if you pay attention to proper nutrition and water quality. Adding too many fish or over-feeding will cause poor health and disease problems. A general rule for success is to add …
Add lots of plants right away to your fish pond. Not fish. The pond’s ecosystem can’t handle a big load of fish right away. If you add too many fish or feed too much, poisonous ammonia (fish waste) will build …
Learning how to build a koi pond isn’t difficult. Read below for our best advice on how to build a pond and more. Koi fish require a deeper pond than goldfish, so size is the most important factor to consider …
Whether or not you will need a permit to construct your backyard pond depends heavily on the size of the pond you plan to build and where you plan to build it. A small water garden likely will not need …