Well my wife got our pond up and running for 2011. She did it a couple weeks ago. This was a pretty bad, long winter up here in northern Ohio. We noticed that our pond water was really murky and couldn’t see anything in the water.
What she did was hook up my homemade pond filter, along with a UV filter, and a couple water pumps, and within a week, our water was clear as can be. It’s amazing how well those three things work together to clear your water up.
I’m happy to say that we did not find any dead animals in our pond like we thought may have happened. For those of you who don’t know, as I mentioned in a earlier post, that we lost our 4 big Koi fish, and we though maybe a cat or something fell though the ice and maybe contaminated the water. We just don’t know why our Koi died. The Comets and Shubunkins are doing great.
We have already had our annual visit of the spring peepers. They were here 3 or 4 nights making all kinds of racket, but enjoyable to listen to. We’ve just had very few warm nights.
Katie (my wife), is going out today to clean up the bottom of the pond. Says she’s going to use a skimmer and get up what she can. There’s dirt, pea gravel, and some dead vegetation that she wants to get out. She already has some flowers planted around it too.
Well that’s about it for now, talk to ya later. Bob
