ThatOwlWoman (02-11-2018)
ThatOwlWoman (02-11-2018)
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Our fish pond is pretty big...a kind of kidney shaped one that I dug and lined myself.
I'd estimate about 900 gallons. (It's about 15' x 4' x 2 1//2' in depth.)
Got mostly goldfish...decent sized; some shubukin. We had some koi, but they were not able to withstand the winters here. I keep a heater in the pond during the winter...but that just keeps a melted hole for some oxygen intake and doesn't actually warm the water. The goldfish, strangely enough...last for years and years. Some of ours are 15 years old. Beautiful, huge tails.
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Althea (02-10-2018), tff (03-01-2018), ThatOwlWoman (02-11-2018)
We were "gifted" a red eared slider, by a relative, and when he gets bigger, I'm going to build an outdoor pond for it and put some goldfish and coolie loachs in it, to help keep the water clean.
I'm going to enclose it with wire and cover it, to keep the predatory birds out.
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Yep...I have one of those heaters. They're meant for livestock watering troughs, so they only keep the water at 34 degrees. I stop feeding when the temp goes below 50 degrees. My pond is small enough where the heater will keep it melted, but the fish don't care if I let it freeze, and just open an air hole every few days. Do you do anything for the algae in the summer? I'm told the green water is really healthy for the fish, but I'd like to see them!
Every few days, I pump the pond water into my gardens, and refill with a hose as the water pumps out. It stays clear for less than a day.
From a few years ago
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Last edited by Althea; 02-10-2018 at 06:26 PM.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
ThatOwlWoman (02-11-2018)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Althea (02-11-2018)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
We had a tiny backyard pond when we lived in STL, with goldfish. One morning when I went out to feed them they didn't come up to get their food. Found little orange scales everywhere along the edge. :~(
lots of people out here put metal screens over the pond to keep even the neighbor cats out
Last edited by Damocles; 02-11-2018 at 05:38 PM. Reason: spelling
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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