Learning to build a pond
Ponds that have lived through a drought have a potential to leak once the water level fills back up. Scary thought but follow along and see what can happen. As the summer months get hotter and hotter evaporation continues to remove water from the pond along with any seeps or leaks that allow the water
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Winter just wouldn’t let go and by time it did it was too late. Spring arrived at WhatPond and the two legged nutrient machines have been coming around for a month now and it didn’t take much to get them to leave, simply walk towards them and off they go. Our usual geese deterrent is
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It’s been a long winter season, but after last year’s drought I guess we shouldn’t complain too much. This is a time to replenish the ponds and saturate the earth so we can hopefully have better crops, fuller ponds and water to drink. Global warming. Never thought there was such a thing but I would
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First and the most important is saving our pond and fish during the summer months when thermal stratification occurs, aeration keeps the zone broken and the toxic gasses out of the pond while replacing the gasses with oxygen allowing more fish to use the entire pond since the oxygen is deeper in the pond. Winter
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Aeration or aerating ponds and lakes or adding oxygen can and will benefit the body of water but only if it is properly sized for the depth and volume of water. Over the years we sort of experimented as most do since that was all you would hear about to fix a pond “add oxygen”
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Pond Dye Packets are a cool idea, less mess no worries about freezing and easy to use. Have a ½ acre pond then you would only toss in one water soluble packet to color the water which adds shade to help to prevent photosynthesis, add 2 packets for a richer color and even more sun
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One of the three main components to building a pond is water, water that will fill the pond and keep it full. The water we are looking for comes from the watershed, the area above the pond that when snow melts, rain and rain storms fall to the ground and moves down hill to the
Wishing You a Merry Christmas and an Awesome New Year. You never know what life or nature can throw at you so enjoy the upcoming Holidays. I would like to start by saying, the below video is not my house or video but I wanted to share it with you, I think its awesome. Sure
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A natural pond is your typical pond built on the land and nature provides the water to keep it full. Known as a farm pond, tank, pool and lakes. Nature helps to keep it under control but can also have moments we catch that are not so fun to watch. It’s survival of the fittest
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
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