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In this issue: Aug 19, 2005
|| How Many Fish can the Pond hold?
|| Scrub the Pond? No Way! There are easier ways...
|| New and better...e-books (and still free)
|| Fun (Pond) Fact
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Tired of CLEANING POND FILTERS?
Try a back-flushing one instead.
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|| How Many Fish can the Pond hold?
Have your fish multiplied this summer or you found some
more that you simply could not resist buying? Or both?
We recently had some severe storms here in St. Louis that
left several hundred of our customers without power on hot
and humid days. This produced a scramble in our retail
facility for ways to keep the fish alive without pumps to
oxygenate the water.
This is a rather common problem! In the summer time the
oxygen content of the water falls as the water temperature
rises. Most of the time this is not dangerous as the pump(s)
replenish the oxygen, but when they fail....
The general rule of thumb is that a pond can safely support
one inch of fish per square foot of surface area without
pumps and filters running. If your pond has more fish than
that, then it is best to make some provisions for
potential problems such as a power out.
Since most of us do not have a generator handy when these
type of things happen, the next best thing is to keep
a jar of Microbe-Lift OX on the shelf. This is not a
miracle cure but lots of times it is the difference between
inconvenience and disaster! It can be found here.
|| Scrub the Pond? Now Way!
Many of us have beautiful rocks in our ponds and waterfalls
that we took great care to pick out! And then it happens...
the things turn green, brown and overall yuckie!
We have had customers tell us that they actually take
scrub brushes to the rocks to try and clean them up!
This is not only harmful to our backs and takes up our
precious spare time...it also not good for the pond (scrubbing
away precious benefical bacteria)!
There are products out there that will do the job for us,
safely and easily (follow label directions, of course).
Check out D-Solve or Green Clean for that pesky stuff on the
rocks and my all time favorites for that gooey stuff on the
bottom: Microbe-Lift Sludge Away or Aqua One:
I have not drained my pond or scrubbed anything in it for
several years!
|| New and Better e-books and still free
Maybe you have noticed that the newsletter did not publish
very regular this season?! That's because we have been busy
with our e-books!
We have just completed a re-write and re-design of our
e-books (all but the Spring Start-up one, and it is coming).
Check them out, they are really cool! Easy to read, all
the information you need in a compact and entertaining form and
best of all...they do not cost you a red cent!
Just go to Pond Market and click on any of
the e-book links on the left!
|| Fund (Pond) Fact:
Are you watching those beautiful and colorful dragonflies
around your pond?
Dragonflies are not really flies, in fact, they EAT flies!
They lay their eggs in the water where the nymphs mature (it
can take up to 3 years) Once they crawl out of the water
and turn into the Dragonflies we see they live only a few
more months.
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who may also enjoy it! Know other pond lovers? Pass it on!
Thank You!
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