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larvae…

16 Monday Jun 2025

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this morning I finally got around to sorting out a working pump for the bathtub pond…

I had switched the two pumps between the main pond and the bathtub, but not long after that change the pump in the tub stopped working completely…

and because there are no fish in that pond, the chance of mosquito larvae growing in it was a problem…

happily, the first extra pump I came across worked, although it didn’t have a piece extending out of the water… luckily that doesn’t matter as the water just needs to move to ensure no larvae can survive…

hopefully this one will continue to work…

happy to get that job off the list…

inhabitants…

19 Saturday Oct 2024

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today the three fish in the bathtub pond moved into their winter condo… one of the rocks that had been in that pond was also brought in to provide a tunnel for the fish…

the tanks have been filled and running since September 30th, although the biggest one has a lot of algae in it so these fish will be testing whether it is ready for inhabitants…

we will likely wait another week or so before moving the rest of the school…

so far, they appear happy;-)…

scoop…

29 Wednesday May 2024

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at last the bathtub pond is up and running…

took quite a while to empty out the water and leaves… used a pail to scoop out the majority of the water and then the wetvac to finish collecting the debris…

did it in a hurry on Thursday, as it was supposed to rain a lot over the next few days… left it empty after I put the pump in so it could begin to fill with rainwater…

on Sunday it finally got filled up using the hose, then the pump was plugged in and started running…

today, pansies made it into the flower bed in front of the pond;-)…

in a few days I will pop the last four fish, from the smallest tank, in…

caulking…

25 Tuesday Jul 2023

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the bathtub needed to be re-caulked so we picked up some silicone while we were out the other day…

after cleaning the edges off we went looking for the caulking gun… without success… I’m sure it will turn up one of these days…

happily, our neighbours’ lent us theirs and the job got done…

later I was checking it out and realized that it was vanishing… only to learn that, even though it went on white, it ended up clear, so it was actually just drying, lol…

too funny…

perfect…

20 Saturday May 2023

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Friday was a beautiful semi-warm and sunny day…

I spent some time reading on the upper deck and when it warmed up a bit I found the screws for the hammock, removed the umbrella, laid the whole thing down, and attached all four legs tightly… put everything back together and then added a couple of cushions to the hammock chair and it is now perfect;-)… I may have had a short nap in it while taking a break from reading…

I am very happy as the shape of this chair is much more comfortable than the previous one… I think it will get more use, but we shall see…

a little later, I used the fishnet in the bathtub pond to clean out all the dead water hyacinths from last year… then I brought out the wet-vac and sucked out the dead leaves and water… next I put together the pieces for the new pump and set it into the pond… after filling it up, turned on the pump and it worked… yay…

now it is burbling nicely…

feels like I got quite a bit done;-)…

draining…

22 Tuesday Nov 2022

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the bathtub has been draining very slowly for a while now…

a suggestion had been to use Drano in it…

I finally climbed right in, and realized the stopper would unscrew…

then I discovered that the rubber washer had broken in two and was clearly the culprit…

it drained perfectly once removed…

now to get out and find a replacement for the washer…

bathtub…

23 Wednesday Jun 2021

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on Sunday, I spent the majority of the day working on the bathtub pond…

started out emptying it with the watering jug… realized that was going to take too long and would be difficult to get as the water went down, so I used the shop vac instead…

as it filled with water I scooped it out and used it to water the grass seedlings around the garden…

then the shop vac sucked up a million sunflower seeds along with Virginia creeper remnants…

eventually I got in and removed the rocks and plant and also trimmed back some of the Virginia creeper… nice to have it cleaned up;-)…

ordered a new pump for this pond and waited a few days for it to arrive…

this morning I filled up the tub with water and got the new pump working… it is going to be excellent and shouldn’t get plugged up…

next, I think a few feeder fish might go into it…