What happens to small fish under the ice. A couple years ago I was walking the pond, ok I walk around the pond everyday, it was late fall and cooling pretty quick. I noticed these little black darts shooting away from the pond edge, so I grabbed a butterfly net and caught a few only [...]

What a ride with Sandy, our area was hit by wind and rain knocking down trees and flooding a few areas, making it a little difficult getting to work going around road blocks and dodging the downed trees that had been blown over. The ponds made it through the storm with no problems, a little [...]

With Sandy bearing down on the East Coast, wind and rain are the major threats, with an emphasis on a lot of rain. With this in mind, pond owners should check out their safety devices on their ponds starting with the emergency spillway. Be sure it is free from debris, sticks, and logs, leaves even [...]

This has been a crazy year in most of the country from flooding to wide spread drought. As our ponds got smaller due to lack of rain, seeping and evaporation the chance for fish kills raised tremendously. Even large lakes had fish kills during these trying times. Here at WhatPond the ponds did drop down [...]

Strange title I know but was pondering this while I was healing from a recent injury. Ponds and Accidents really are not the same , ponds take time to plan, decide where to dig, layout, permits, and the digging process and of course the time it takes to fill. Accidents happen in less than a [...]

Here we are closing the summer with Labor day but still a lot to do, more aeration systems to instal and weeds to get out of the pond before they die and add more muck to the pond. By the way where is the rain? The ponds are down their lowest this year with the [...]

Aquatics plants that can be harmful to the pond, harm the dam and grows like wild fire. Woody plants on the dam can be very dangerous to the dam it’s self. Roots from these plants can weaken the dam and the roots can be a source for water to escape around those roots creating small [...]

The summer heat seems to have hit all part of the states including Erie, Pa. where the pond turned into bath water temps. Is there concern? Yes, the first concern is evaporation. Why is that a big deal? Aquatic plants need water, some need submerged while other need to keep their roots wet. Next concern, [...]

As you can imagine planting plants, aquatic plants takes time, not just to plant them but to see year after year the results, attitudes, and characteristics these plants have. The last post sort of featured the Pickerel plant and as promised we are moving on to a couple other aquatic plants for this session. There [...]