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Message: [QUOTE="CometKeith, post: 115714, member: 2912"] Callingcolleen1, thanks for asking about my pond. Well most of my fish are doing much better. Some have been really sick and one actually lays sideways on top of the water and then will swim away if I touch it with the net. I brought out a bag to put him in more than once when I thought that was it yet he is still surviving. I think the severe up and downs of temperatures in the spring really hurt my fish and the pond never really had a chance to cycle despite hitting 80 degrees in mid March before it got really cold in April. I think my biggest mistake is adding the free fish I got, but at that point I was planning on going bigger with the pond and it failed to materialize. My ammonia readings are back down to zero with all the water changes I have done. I haven't used any medicines or salt baths on the fish and have just focused on doing everything possible to improve the water quality. So far I have lost only two that I have actually removed myself and my two watonai's are MIA. I think most of them will be okay. Also I added a few more snails,tadpoles, and floating plants the other day and naturally the raccoons got the snails the very first night and made a mess of the pond. Thanks for sharing pictures of your pond. It looks very nice. Addy, it's hard to believe there were half a million Bald Eagles at one point. If you ever have a chance to read about Lewis and Clark's journey they saw a lot of amazing things that weren't even known about back then until they wrote about them and drew pictures of what they saw. [url="http://lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=3051."]http://lewis-clark.o...ArticleID=3051.[/url] Wow! we have a lot of bird enthusiasts on gpf. The bird thread is.......taking off! Addy those were amazing pictures that you posted. [/QUOTE]

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