Welcome To The Backyard-Pond-Guide Blog
Hello world, and welcome to the Backyard-Pond-Guide.com blog. Whether you have a backyard pond or plan on having one, you should be able to find some valuable information about them here.
If you haven’t visited my main website Backyard-Pond-Guide.com, be sure to stop by and check it out. It could be of some help to you.
As far as this blog goes, I created it so other people such as yourself can help contribute to it. Everyone has some great ideas or valuable experiences and information that may help some other people, please leave your comments and let everyone know what you know. It’s a great way to help.
I’m not going to claim that I’m the guru of ponds, however I’ve had one now for about 14 or 15 years and have gained quite a bit of experience and will try and convey what I have learned to you.
I’m also not an English major, so please excuse my writing. I’m not the best, but I try real hard.
With this blog I’ll talk to you about all the different aspects about having a backyard pond. What do I mean by backyard pond? I’m talking about a pond somewhere on your property that range from a couple hundred gallons of water to say about 5000 gallons of water. I’m not talking about some huge pond stocked with fish.
Our backyard pond.
Above is a picture of my pond, just to give you an idea about what kind of pond I’m talking about. It’s in my backyard and contains about 3000 gallons of water. The fish I have in it are Koi, Comets, and Shubunkins.
That’s a little run down about my new blog. Talk to you later. Bob
May 10th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I have just put in a small backyard pond (about 6X8 and about 360 gallons) with a waterfall. I waited over a week for the water to clear and it was beautiful. Living in south Louisiana, I needed some fish to eat the mosquito larvae so I bought five goldfish about 4 inches long. I added the prescribed water conditioner and put the fish in the pond. They all swam directly to the bottom and have stayed there for the last twenty four hours. The thing that bothers me though is that since I put the fish in the water, it has turned brown again and looks like the day we first filled it. Will it clear out again or do I have to choose between a clear pond without fish or have the fish in murky water. I’m a novice at this and would appreciate any advice you can provide. Thanks.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Hi Steve,
The fish are not the reason your pond turned murky. All ponds will get like this because of Algae, and yes it can grow very quickly.
I would suggest that you get an ultra violet pond filter and some pond plants. It will take care of your algae problem. You can read more about them at the following link.
http://www.backyard-pond-guide.com/ultra-violet-pond-filters.html
If you want nice clear water, that’s the only way I know to get it. Best of luck to you and your pond. Bob