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Message: [QUOTE="CliffandJoann, post: 142966, member: 2126"] When we first put in our pond (before all the pond info on the internet was available) we went to a pond seminar at a local pond nursery and met with the speaker, a Japanese gentleman. He said at the time that the Japanese were experimenting with tremendous amouts of salt in their ponds. He recommended we salt our pond in winter and we have done so since. Does that mean that salting is the absolute fix for all ponds, no, however we have had success so we'll continue to do so. To waynes point, the water exchanges go into the lawn; our exchanges in early spring go into into the lawn as well, and our surrounding plants and flowers are lush and abundant. So the salt that's still in the pond water in Spring does't seem to stunt the plants in the least. We also always water all the plants and flowers with the lush pond water from cleaning the filter boxes and filter pads. Another point, in early Spring we never disturb the pond bottom, as the fish are at their most vulnerable state after coming off the cold winter. The pond has been host to many parasites over the winter, we get our fish built up with feedings for several days before disturbing the bottom. We've read many times that fish survive the winter only to die in the Spring, thus we think waiting until the fish are well fed and active before moving around rocks and planting our plants on the shelves and cleaning the beach is a good practice. [/QUOTE]