In this Issue: Feb 3, 2005
|| Grand Opening of our new online Store and Sale
|| Last call for ordering Free Catalogs
|| Ponds in Winter -- Southern, Northern
|| Fun (Pond) Fact
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Try our new webstore! >> Find a bug, send us a copy of the
error screen and an explanation of what happened with
your contact information and we will send you A GIFT.
http://www.pondmarket.com/store
That way we can squash the bugs and you get a fun gift.
Don't forget to update your bookmarks while you are there!
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Celebrating the opening of our re-designed Online Store
with 20% off Sales for everything from filters to food!
We have been hard at work remodelling our online store and
adding lots and lots of new products for you and your pond this
spring!
FIND great bargains in the "Bargains" and "Sales" departments.
FIND bugs and get a gift (see details above).
http://www.pondmarket.com/store
>>> Last Call for Ordering Free Spring Catalogs
We are getting ready to mail our Spring Catalogs. We still have
the offer of a free one for newsletter subscribers only for about
another 5 to 7 days only!
So, if you would like one, please order it here:
Order Paper Catalog
Ponds in Winter --- Southern, Northern
Brrr, the weather in most parts of the country has been absolutely
horrid! We have had a little bit of everything: cold, snow, rain, fog...
Can't wait for spring! In the meantime, though, here are some
cautions for your pond until the weather gets better:
** Southern Ponds: Since winters in the southern states tend to be
much milder, many ponds hover right around the 50 degree water
temperature mark. This is hard on the fish, because it keeps them
right on the edge of dormancy and hunger. Exercise care when feeding!
Only easily digestible cool weather food should be fed that contains
mostly vegetable matter.
Beneficial bacteria tend to multiply much slower and if the fish are
active enough to feed they do - of course - produce waste. Care must
be taken that enough bacteria exist to digest the waste. Microbe Lift
Fall/Winter Prep is a very good cool weather bacteria.
All necessary products can be found in the "Seasonal Supplies"
department (many at Grand Opening Prices of 20% off)
at http://www.pondmarket.com/store
** Northern Ponds: Chances are, everything is pretty much dormant
in the pond in our colder states right now. There are, however, a few
cautions to observe even here:
Fish cannot go very long without oxygen. A vent hole must be kept in
the ice on top of the pond either with a pump or a pond de-icer.
If there are a lot of decomposing leaves in the pond the oxygen situation
can get especially precipitous in the later weeks of the winter.
Microbe Lift OX is a great product to help with that situation: it immediately
makes more oxygen available to the fish and also for the beneficial
bacteria to help their reduced numbers deal with the decomposing
matter in the pond.
All these products can of course be found at (many at Grand Opening Prices
of 20% off)
http://www.pondmarket.com/store
>>> Fun (Pond) Fact
Frogs are a symbol of Good Luck in Japan.
Australian Aborigines believe frogs bring rain and
the Chinese see the "Toad in the Moon", not the
"Man in the Moon"
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and friends so they may also enjoy it! Thank you!
Oooops...I almost forgot! The Pond Survery is still out there....
so hurry and participate:
www.pondmarket.com -- you can find it on the home page in
the right hand column!
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