Ponds in Canada

[sissy]

I use it in my koi pond .It tints the water a little brown but clears up in 2 weeks .

 

[callingcolleen1]

@callingcolleen1 , do you use it in your big ponds too?

Yes, I have used it in my big ponds in the past, but now with bigger added on top pond, it would take quite a bit of product to treat. Then I never get pea green water in big ponds out back as they run all winter and are always balanced. But I do empty a bottle of it in big connecting ponds, if a fish looks injured or if they have been caught and moved, as the Liquid Pond Peat prevents fungus from growing on fish wound. "Fungus is to Fish", as "Infection is to us", and can kill fish fast if not treated promptly. Liquid Pond Peat is my Mother Natures all natural fungicide!

 

[Tula]

Yes, I have used it in my big ponds in the past, but now with bigger added on top pond, it would take quite a bit of product to treat. Then I never get pea green water in big ponds out back as they run all winter and are always balanced. But I do empty a bottle of it in big connecting ponds, if a fish looks injured or if they have been caught and moved, as the Liquid Pond Peat prevents fungus from growing on fish wound. "Fungus is to Fish", as "Infection is to us", and can kill fish fast if not treated promptly. Liquid Pond Peat is my Mother Natures all natural fungicide!

I put my bigger aerator in the pond the other day, with a new diffuser. Wow, it churns the water and the koi love swimming through it! I run a small aerator in the winter and cover the pond, but wonder if the bigger one would be good?

 

[callingcolleen1]

Had a extra nice day today. I visited with my lovely sweet Mommy

I put my bigger aerator in the pond the other day, with a new diffuser. Wow, it churns the water and the koi love swimming through it! I run a small aerator in the winter and cover the pond, but wonder if the bigger one would be good?

That's sounds just awesome Tula ! Big fish will love that I am sure, especially during the hot sticky summer nights, and its warm and humid here tonight, so I could use a cool bubbly bath to swim in myself, ha ha ha

 

[callingcolleen1]

Just wanted everyone to know my sweet mommy is doing better and we had a long talk on the phone tonight, she sounds so good and just like normal... Doctors said she has Dementia but some days you can hardly tell! Its been quite the journey with her, she goes back in time and thinks my brother Wayne is still living on the "SW Hill" but has not lived there in 30 years! Then she suddenly can speak French!!! Very good French by the sounds of it too! I can't remember ever hearing her speak French, so I asked her where she learned how to speak French, and she told me that she used to work helping the French Nuns in Northern Alberta when she was 16 years old. My mom told me that she was going to join the nuns and her favorite nun was Sister Josephine. It was an amazing week and my mom told me things I had never heard before... The mind is a strange thing, somehow she went back in time and could remember details so well, like it just happened the other day...

 

[cas]

I run a small aerator in the winter and cover the pond, but wonder if the bigger one would be good?

I have read that this would 'super cool' the water and kill the fish... But if you cover your pond again this winter, maybe it would work for you.

 

[Tula]

That's so neat she shared those memories with you....very mystical .

 

[Tula]

I have read that this would 'super cool' the water and kill the fish... But if you cover your pond again this winter, maybe it would work for you.

I know...that's what I always think...so don't use the big aerator in the winter....but Colleens ponds run all winter and her huge koi love it....so I'm stumped. At least I've got time to think about it!

Even though it's super ugly, I'll definitely cover my pond again this year. It made a big difference in their activity level and I think that's a good thing. Maybe I can think of a better looking solution...again, I've got a little time

 

[sissy]

You are getting to see things your mom never told you and that is really a bonus memory you will keep for ever .Glad to hear that she is remembering things like that because it shows you a past you never knew about .Love to momma Colleen .

 

[sissy]

Part of the reason colleen is successful is because of the in pond filters she is using .I am considering buying them for my pond now that I see how it helps colleen get through the winter so well .Plus her plants really help and her natural source for aeration and guessing dog food also .She knows how to run a pond well even with her cold weather

 

[callingcolleen1]

I have read that this would 'super cool' the water and kill the fish... But if you cover your pond again this winter, maybe it would work for you.

Tula I leave my pumps run all winter and have special underwater filters that can run all winter long. No such thing as a super cool pond water! In order to have super cool watet, the water has to be "pure" and that only happens up in the sky clouds or in a labatory.... I have proved this time and time again, as people tried to tell me for years that running the pumps all winter would cause "super cooled" water and that can not happen on earth with pond water as pond water is NOT PURE water. Don't believe everything you read ! One time everybody knew the "earth was flat" and you would be laughed at if you said it was "round". Water under Niagara Falls is not Super Cooled in winter either and many fish live in there too!

 

[Lisak1]

@callingcolleen1 - my mother-in-law suffered from dementia (different from Alzheimer's as we learned). She would be good one day and then we would lose her for a few days. She would talk about things that we had no knowledge of or ask for people that we had never heard her talk about. I often wish we had videotaped some of those conversations with her now that she is gone. She was living a whole other life in her own mind - it was really interesting, when it wasn't heartbreaking. She would tell stories and just laugh and laugh as she enjoyed memories of a time long ago. We would just listen and ask questions and laugh right along with her.

I pray you have many, many more good days with your mom!

 

[sissy]

It is getting harden to find those filters colleen they are either sold out or out of stock or they don't carry them any more

 

[cas]

Colleen, at what temperature do you turn on your pond heater?

 

[Tula]

I think the Matala site has them @sissy , you might check there. My pump sits inside my skimmer, so don't have room for one like Colleen uses.....guess I could always drop a pump over the side of the pond and use one, while circulating the winter water.