Oh, well maybe I dreamed that, John! Thanks for clearing that up for me. Now I have to look up the Watonai and Wakin goldfish ....
Tonight Speck was in the skimmer, and the filter from the bottom was floating up with the basket, so he/she had very little water to be in, but was still just fine when I put it back into the pond.
So I bought a bag of Canna mixed color bulbs at Menards, and decided to see how they will do in the pots in my new bog. Took out the dwarf cattails and irises and put them bare root in the pea gravel. Then put the Canna bulbs in those pots. Voila! That way I will know where the Cannas are come fall and I need to dig them out. Guess I would know from the plant, too.
We shall see if they grow or drown. Was only $5.88 for the bag of 10 bulbs. They seemed to be all growing sprouts, too, except for one.
Then I planted some deep red Phlox (the tall kind, 30-36") and a tall purple spike flower called Liatris Spicata on the back side of the koi pond, so that they will be tall enough when they bloom to see from the deck, since that side is 2 landscape stones high off the ground (about 18") Have more of the purple flowers to plant around the oak tree on the back side of the goldfish pond, but have to dig out the sod first. That tree is too close to the pond to mow between it, so will landscape that area instead.
And, got a couple of screen/quilt batting filters put together for the top of the stream and top of the waterfall, so each pond will be getting fine filtered and see if that helps with the murkiness of the ponds. Wondering if the colder temps has killed any bacteria that was trying to grow ... Water temp tonight was 55.
