The Good Banter Thread

[koiguy1969]

is that why i felt nervous and just couldn't sleep last night? next time how about some warning? lol

 

[j.w]

So was it the sports cards you were sending away sissy? We all wondered what happened to you. Glad you are back :razz:

 

[j.w]

This is for you sissy cuz we really do need ya here even if we do tease ya a lot :razz:

 

[Event Horizon]

Good day everyone.

I have been reading some discussions on here about DIY pond vacuums. It seems to be all over the place. Has anyone been successful in making one? Can anyone guide me to a decent thread on how to make one? I have some ideas but if they have already proven not to work, I don’t want to waste my time. I don’t want to use air or a water hose. The problem with the shop vac is when it fills up it stops. If I don’t anticipate when it is going to fill and it does stop sucking all the crap in the hose goes back out into the pond and making visibility impossible. I would rater use a pump and continually drain water from the pond until I am done. I am ok with this as I would just top up the pond when I am done and call it a water change.

The pond is 5,000 gallon and 4 feet deep.

 

[j.w]

EH I thought we had a new person joining the forum till I saw it was your name attached there...............you aren't a mountain man after all :razz:
Are you hiding from the Feds?
You might get more responses to your vacuum question if you start a new thread asking for help in making one.

 

[Event Horizon]

EH I thought we had a new person joining the forum till I saw it was your name attached there...............you aren't a mountain man after all :razz:
Are you hiding from the Feds?
You might get more responses to your vacuum question if you start a new thread asking for help in making one.

I figured as much after I posted it. I did start a new thread in the DYI section.
Spring is here, so no time for a frozen face. :sun_smiley:

 

[CountryEscape]

From what I've read about them, most have decided netting the bottom does a better job in the long run, uses less water, less mess. The stuff on the bottom of my pond comes out in a matt like a rug when I net it a couple times a year. I use a product that's supposed to help that happen. I use it in my aquariums, and it also makes the waste adhere together somehow.
Another note: I think it's best if you are in a colder climate during the winter, to leave the stuff on the bottom of your pond (as long as it's not a bunch of gunk) until after your pond cycles - water has warmed up, beneficial bacteria has had a good chance to get going good, plants are growing, etc. There is likely good bacterial in the stuff that has accumulated on the bottom of your pond, and if you remove it all right now, you may put your pond out of biological balance. I think that's what contributed to my pond going murky brown last spring, took a month or little more to clear back up. I netted it in the spring, trying to clean it out before everything got going good, and may have done more harm than good.
Good luck finding something that works for you! My sister has an Oase' vacuum that she says is the cat's meow, but she lives in AZ, and uses the water on her lawn and plants.

 

[koiguy1969]

 

[sissy]

hey koiguy if I warned you it would not be any fun . :razz:.I feel like my house is empty now .I went grocery shopping yesterday and carrying boxes in I hurt my darn knee .All those cards I moved and not one problem and go shopping and coming up the stairs with 12 bottles of arizona iced tea and I hurt my knee geeze is that old age or what .Truck was over half full plus had to go by the post office to mail cards to people buying them from sportcard buy.com .We are selling them cheaper than any one else on the sight .

 

[gardengimp]

Dang sissy, those cards must have been renting half your house.

 

[sissy]

one whole room 15 x 17 room and all the way to the ceiling and glad the house was built with a double steel frame under it .12 pallets total and they were stacked on pallets 12 high .Plus 1 pallet of big brown boxes full because I had no more of the 5000 count boxes and all of the pallets had to be shrink wrapped .Just happy they are gone but now I have 2 almost empty rooms in my house and the other room is 15x 19 bedroom .What is left are the really expensive cards that we are selling and are in the closets now on shelves i built .Just glad they are gone and never have to move them again .I moved them down here from my house in NJ .

 

[Big Lou]

one whole room 15 x 17 room and all the way to the ceiling and glad the house was built with a double steel frame under it .12 pallets total and they were stacked on pallets 12 high .Plus 1 pallet of big brown boxes full because I had no more of the 5000 count boxes and all of the pallets had to be shrink wrapped .Just happy they are gone but now I have 2 almost empty rooms in my house and the other room is 15x 19 bedroom .What is left are the really expensive cards that we are selling and are in the closets now on shelves i built .Just glad they are gone and never have to move them again .I moved them down here from my house in NJ .

You are a hardworking woman Sissy! Good Luck!

 

[sissy]

Not sure I got all the money for the space and time they took up .Thanks lou and just glad to see them gone and have to thank my son for finding the buyer' s. 2 different buy's got them .He got a new puter and 24 inch monitor for it .Took some of my furniture up to my sons house also in NJ .Mostly the living room stuff .It was mostly new and hardly used so he needed it after loosing everything to storm sandy

 

[j.w]

Now what ya gonna put in those empty rooms sissy? Man that was a lot of cards!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Ya, Sissy you must have flooded the market with cards! Now if only my hubby cold get rid of the junk in our basement .....