My goldfish pond

[addy1]

That's a cute idea, but I don't have a passport for Poppy or Bear, and mine is out of date. Just can't get used to the idea that I need a Passport to get into the states now, years ago me and the hubby would go almost every weekend to Great Falls, Montana, which was great for shopping, and was not too far away. Ah.... the good old days!

update your passport, we want no excuses ..................lol honey might be retired next year, who knows we might make it.

 

[CountryEscape]

Keith, wouldn't that be a load of fun! I love the idea of renting a "trolley"???? OMG, that's just sounds too funny. Around here we rent "party buses", and they are not very fancy, but they get you where you want to go, with all the libation you want to bring along, and then they take you home. Of course, it couldn't drive everyone home afterwards, so we would all just have to crash at your house. LOL Not really, but it would be so much fun to get to meet people from the area and then enjoy ponds of others at the same time! What a fun weekend that could be. You will have to report it next year, month or more early, when you remember about it and know the dates. Never know, might come up with a group to come and visit and see the local ponds. And, then I could get some leftover floaters from your pond ... after I figure out what my pond needs to grow them.
BTW, the last surviving hyacinths I took out of the pond, put in a bucket of the same water, are getting really dark green! So ... maybe it's not the water chemistry, maybe it's something else. That bucket gets hotter than the pond at times, but is in more shade than the pond. I have no idea! LOL Maybe I could put them in the lotus pots that have no lotus' in them yet.

 

[callingcolleen1]

JW, I suspect that your fish are eating the hyacinth roots, if they grow well in bucket, just throw the excess to the fish as they outgrow the bucket. My hyacinths are finally growing, but the fish have been laying eggs in them and then eating the eggs. My hornwort really is spreading fast, saw babies hiding in there yesterday!
Good idea, if I was closer I could make plans and would love to come see the big pond tour! I'm so attached to my house and home these days, I even hate the thought of leaving town, don't know why, My mom could watch the puppies. The thought of leaving town gives me stress, weird I know.
On another note, I was thinking of going to that new Batman movie, but then I heard the terrible news about the shooting in Colorado this morning, now I really don't want to leave town, where I grew up and know my way around, and nothing that bad has ever happened here thank God! What the heck is going on with all the mass shootings these days! People are going crazy!

 

[j.w]

You talking to me Collen? I don't have any Hyacinth. I gave up on them a couple yrs or so ago. I only had goldfish and still do. Could have been they ate the roots but not sure. I only had one or two of them when I tried them that I got from a grocery store. Now they don't sell them anymore and maybe cuz they don't like the cool weather around here.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Ops! Sorry JW I must of had an old person moment, meant to say CE! She had trouble with those floaters. Then I think I was just rambling on......

 

[j.w]

It's ok Colleen maybe you need a senile implant to keep you going strong :razz:

 

[CometKeith]

I just got my pond tour book. There are 67 ponds in all to look at. From as small as 400 gallons to over 60,000 gallons. Everyone has really interesting descriptions and some are even open until 9:00 PM for evening viewing. There is even a 20,000 gallon indoor pond. The tour goes from NW Indiana all the way up to SE Wisconsin! Colleen re babies. I am certain now i have more babies than adult fish. I have never had this kind of population explosion before. So for every color variation I have there are at least 3 or 4 similar. My guess is there are at least 15-20 babies in the pond that I actually can see and who knows how many there are besides that! They are really fun to watch now but I am not looking forward to them all getting big. I was on the phone today with someone from Colorado for business and she brought up the shooting. I didn't even know about it. Another terrible event for that state. The home of sky blue waters, rocky mountain highs, and mass murderers.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Yes, it's just shocking and terrible, all the shootings and stuff. Still kinda spooked by the whole thing!
Your tour sounds so wonderful! Who knows, maybe some day you might see me there!

 

[callingcolleen1]

I remember a long time ago when my pond was small, and I had just made it twice as big, by adding a connecting bottom pond, not the same bottom pond that I have now, (things have changed many times over the last 20 years) and I too got a "sudden population explosion" of little gold fish. I think when the conditions are just right these things can happen just "out of the blue". It was a new fresh addition so their was not many fish to begin with in the "bottom pond". When the bigger fish on the top pond laid eggs, the babies must have naturally flowed down the little stream and into the bottom pond, where chances of survival were better cause there was less adult fish to eat the babies.
I also had mostly floating tropical plants back them, not many large sedges. Sedges are perferred places for dragons files to lay their eggs on, and with that come dragon fly larvae, which I read like to eat baby goldfish. Floating plants can also provide lots of hiding spots for babies as well, I do get babies each year, but not that many, so I suspect someone has eaten my babies!

 

[CometKeith]

The first pic is from my pond with one of the black and orange babies. The rest are from the pond tour today. We actually stopped at 5 ponds. These pics are from three of them. They were all nice and each was unique and the people were very friendly. My wife went with and when we got home now she was the one talking about enlarging ours! We are going again next weekend. It's very nice when people are gracious enough to invite you to enjoy what they have created and have you share that with them.

 

[sissy]

wow that last one really had some big fish in it and I could not pick which one I liked better .Your black and orange babies will change color over and over again as all my black and orange ones are now white with a spot of orange

 

[callingcolleen1]

That's wonderful that your wife went with you, its nice to go with someone, nice pictures of pond tour, that one pond those fish are quite big!

Here's a quick tour of Medicine Hat park flower bed and surrouding landscape.

 

[sissy]

gosh collen you would never know by the pics it gets below 45 degrees in the winter there by the lushness

 

[j.w]

Glad you and your wife had a nice time touring the ponds Keith and looks like your wife is becoming addicted along w/ the whole sorry bunch of us here :razz: Nice looking big ponds and big pretty fish!

 

[CometKeith]

Colleen, nice pictures. It looks like a really beautiful place. JW, Colleen, yes it was music to my ears listening to her tell me how I should expand it. Not bring it forward like I had tried before, but extend it across the back of the yard and build a berm with a large waterfall like one of the ones we saw yesterday. We are going out Saturday with some friends to see more ponds. There are supposed to be some fantastic ones in the Western suburbs. There was an indoor 20,000 gallon pond on the tour yesterday but we didn't have a chance to go there. Supposedly the owner has a lot of prize winning Koi.