If you have sixty fish in your 2000 gallon pond, the fish load is way too high. I would suggest you either increase the size of your pond, …. cut the fish load in half (at least by a third), or add a substantial amount of biological filtration to your system. Adding plants […]
Hello friendly Koi friends. I have a 2000 gallon pond with over sixty wonderful Koi fish. Can you guess what my problem is? I have an Ultima II Filter and Tsunami pump which can handle up to 30- 35 fish no problem. However, now with Sisty fish my Ammonia […]
Ok since my son received some guppies from his grandma the males have been just evil. We made sure to go get some more females so it was a 1 male to 3 female ratio give or take a few. He had a total of 13 guppies. The males have killed ALL the females twice […]
What type of fish like oranges? Barbara In a message dated 7/17/2008 11:54:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mlfrancis2@mindspring.com writes:
This isn’t a solution to your problem, but I have a few fish that like eating orange slices… the pulp not the rind. Anywho, I feed […]
How’s your tapwater smell? How bad is the tank smell and is it always that way or just the inital opening of the lid? I keep my tanks as close to technically perfect as I can and the first time I open the lid in the morning I get a small wiff of […]
I personaly have not had any problems with keeping cory cats in my breeder tanks. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
In a message dated 7/16/2008 2:20:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, george.labelle@intel.com writes:
Thought I’d share with the group my near loss of pond, recovery, and lesson learned. Specs. 1,700 Gal. pond, Performance Pro 1/4-49 pump, Ultima II 2,000 filter and Aqua UV 80W. Aloha Oregon, near Portland. […]
Presently I’m using two pumps on my pond.
The waterfall and filter are powered by a older design Diamond Mag Flow pump I had for over 12 years. This pupm looks like a standard sump pump and is rated at 3,700 gph. This pump had turned may a Koi into chopped […]
Thought I’d share with the group my near loss of pond, recovery, and lesson learned. Specs. 1,700 Gal. pond, Performance Pro 1/4-49 pump, Ultima II 2,000 filter and Aqua UV 80W. Aloha Oregon, near Portland. 6 total KOI about 100″.
Trouble began when the water was more green than it should have been. […]
I couldnt agree more many many moons ago at the university when ever I set up a new tank I always used the diatom filter to remove debris from our substrates before I did anything else works fantastic and eliminates further problems with it as what we were using was collected on […]