In This Issue: Feb 24, 2006
|| Final Pond Survey Results
|| Draining the Pond in the Spring?
|| Tetra Pond and PondMarket and Pond Filters
|| For local St. Louis Customers
|| Fun (Pond) Fact
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Time to start the Pond for Spring? The PondMarket offers our no cost e-book "How to Start the Pond for Spring" (We recently revised it, too - download it at Pond Market Free Stuff
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|| Final Pond Survey Results
Many of you participated in our Pond Survey and we thank you for giving us the opportunity to make our site, products and free offerings even more useful to you, our subscribers and customers!
The Survey Results have now been deleted from the web, but we would like to share some of them with you:
Subscribers were pretty much equally divided whether they wanted to receive the Newsletter every two weeks or more or once a month or less. Consequently the publication schedule will stay about the same as it has been.
The same result turned up for the question whether the newsletter should be in text only or in magazine (html) format. We will probably offer both options later this year and let your subscribers choose which option to subscribe to.
By far the most asked for new features where an internet chat with our pond experts (we are looking into that) and an auction for returned, dented and overstocked items (we are working on that).
More on the results regarding subscribers ponds in the next newsletter. The results can also be viewed in detail on our Pond Blog.
|| Draining the Pond in the Spring?
We are definitely not big fans of that! It is very hard work, disturbs and stresses the fish and pretty much destroys the ecology of the Pond!
A Pond that has been well maintained with regular scheduled additions of Beneficial Bacteria and is well aerated should only need to be drained completely every few years.
Spring Clean-Up (getting stringy stuff off waterfalls and growth off rocks) can be accomplished lickety-split with "Green Away" or "D-Solv" and layers of sludge and decomposing leaves and such can be degraded and just about eliminated with "Sludge Away" and/or "Spring/Summer Cleaner".
Definitely preferable to draining and scrubbing, which stresses the fish (not to mention the pond owner) and destroys the little ecological system that has become an important part of your garden (a lined pond takes at least 2 years to mature and every time it is completely drained that period starts all over again).
Drain and replace about 1/3 of the water to dilute any environmental toxins which may have accumulated during the year because of evaporation and leave it at that!
The stuff to save yourself all that work can be found here: Spring Start
|| Tetra Pond and PondMarket(R) and Filters
Tetra Pond and PondMarket have teamed up to bring you a Special Offer: Buy a Tetra Pressurized back-flushable Pond Filter with UVC and a Tetra OFX Pump and get 50 feet of Tubing and Hose Clamps Free! Only the PondMarket brings you this Deal in partnership with Tetra Pond! That is a Savings of up to $ 100 Just put "Tetra Special Offer" in the "Comments Field" when ordering the Filtration Package here: Tetra Filter Kit AND THE DEAL IS YOURS!
|| For Local St. Louis Customers
Our Retail Facility is again offering our free "Pond Seminar" on March the 15th, at 7:00 p.m. The event is very popular, we will be hosting two experts in the field of Ponds who will present their knowledge about building and maintaining Ponds and about Fish Keeping in Ponds! The seminar is free, but reservations are required! Just call 314-894-2894 and reserve your spot!
|| Fun (Pond) Fact
Gotta love those frog eggs in the Pond! The resulting Tadpoles will eat some of the ALGAE! Like this newsletter? Please pass it on to family and friends who may also enjoy it (teachers in particular love using the Fun Pond Facts in class)!
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