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Lucky you have observant neighbours! Having a low stocking rate is the best way to safeguard against equipment failure. If you do buy a spare...

Slow leaking concrete ponds will self seal over time. Algae, biofilm and silt work their way into fine cracks. Just be patient, use a float valve to...

Yeah, I think this would be my lesson. At this point asking someone to do a fiberglass would have been maybe only marginally more expensive, and SO...

This looks like it might be "brown spot disease". If so, the dark spot in the cyst is a Digenean Trematode, a type of fluke or flatworm. Digeneans...

You won't like this but I've used blockwork for fish ponds twice and they both leaked. I'd never use blocks for water ever again. However they are...

Beautiful!!!

Your Bananas are gorgeous

Thanks I just found a guy to take them he a pond rescue, he takes fish that nobody wants. When I get home I will buy some from him. It was 95 degrees...

Bananas have really grown a lot in a months time.

The first think that comes to mind is whether there is some means of aeration running for the fish, such as an air pump bubbling or a pump splashing...

Is it Hardy or Tropical?

Thanks. I am really doubtful it is the blockwork moving... the blockwork is solid, mortared, filled in block with rebar horizontal and vertical every...

Your water looks amazingly clean so obviously and your Koi has grown a huge amount in a short time, so obviously things are working well. I agree...

That makes sense. I wish I had been so lucky. It took a lot of work to get rid of those 80 fry. My single large female core spawn this morning and...