That's why I'm thinking of starting off with just feeder goldfish and avoiding Koi altogether. Seems you feel their loss more strongly and they're so much more expensive. Sorry for your loss, though.
Going for it! phase one 12,000 gallon pond.
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That's why I'm thinking of starting off with just feeder goldfish and avoiding Koi altogether. Seems you feel their loss more strongly and they're so much more expensive. Sorry for your loss, though.
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I don't know. I feel an attachment to my 19 year old goldfish.
So sorry. How big was Anubus?
And we thought we had to just worry about blue heron. I had a hawk go into the pond going after my fish last year. Thank goodness the net was over the pond. The net got torn out of its supports and laying in the pond when he was done, but it protected the fish. Boy was the hawk surprised!
I'll have the new protection finished this weekend this will protect the fish leaving really only one way in for birds . But it needs some final tweeking with new nets so it won't be annoying for me. The new net keeps me from accessing dead pool and that's my space to catch unwanted fish . Can't go blocking that. I have a plan said the Dr.
I look forward to seeing what you have come up with. My net makes it difficult for me to get at the pond and I am not too crazy with having the small fences along the side to raise the net for the plants, but I have gotten attached to the fish so I live with the inconvenience.
The pond is doing very well. The weather has been so mild for so long . With so much rain some things are growing well but a little different then normal
The pitchers have thrown up their flower but the stalks are growing much slower..
And some ther things are either eatingbrealy well or is very prenant but i do believe bull frog breeeding is past.
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The pitchers have thrown up their flower but the stalks are growing much slower..
And some ther things are either eatingbrealy well or is very prenant but i do believe bull frog breeeding is past.
Where do you buy your pitcher plants? I've been on the hunt for them and either my usual haunts don't carry them or they want like 80 bucks for a smallish pot of them. I have a nice dampish spot that I'd like to get some naturalized in on the pond edge.
A local shop grows them , i believe they are 20 bucks but they are just starters they usually have like about 8 tubes for 20 bucks or so, i' can find out , i was just there a couple weeks ago the plants were still young , i'll let you know what size and see if they are worth shipping.
Well the construction aspect to the eagle solution is complete, i ran 5 wires over headit's still pretty wide spacing between them but also hung some led lights on them but THEY ARE WAY OUTSIDE MY NORM... they are whisteria with some vines and tendrils. So for the first time in any of my aquariums or now the pond i have incorporated some cheap chachis. sorry for the poor quality but low light and movies don't work real well.
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Hope it works, what a shame they got the biggest one!
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Really interesting solution with the wisteria vines and lighting. I'm so sorry the bald eagle got your biggest fish, they are fierce predators.
I'm polish and very stubborn and like what i like and i worked hard on this pond , and looking through a net at my fish is not an option. yes i have net 50 feet from the sitting area but you look right through it. so this was a bit of work running cables over head 12 to 16 feet above the ground we will see how it turns out . the last part is ordering a new net the existing net was for the very first design of the pond we have definably changed since then.
i should add the wife is Sicilian so hanging grapes make the patio look like a Italian villa she's all in.
i should add the wife is Sicilian so hanging grapes make the patio look like a Italian villa she's all in.
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Love the Italian villa vibes