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netting…

29 Sunday Sep 2024

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on Friday I rearranged the lawn furniture so there was a bit more space on the back deck…

on Saturday, I took the netting off the pond… it was doing a good job of collecting the leaves although the weight of them had it sinking into the water…

the fish weren’t moving around as much as usual, the birds weren’t drinking or bathing and I didn’t like the look of it…

next year when it goes down, I will put some thin boards over the top so that it doesn’t slip into the fishes’ domain…

now, the fish, the birds, and I are much happier, lol…

anticipate…

09 Friday Aug 2024

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a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…

I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…

my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…

an experiment…

fair-sized…

04 Tuesday Jun 2024

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spent a little time in the pond Sunday afternoon…

for whatever reason (that I can’t figure out) the pump at the end seems to keep tipping up… I decided to put a fair-sized rock in to hold the edge of the pump down and give the fish somewhere to hide under, other than the bridge, lol…

and I removed the two dead water lilies which were clearly not coming back…

we will see if it works… well, look…

it seems as though the fish have finally decided that they can swim around the entire pond…

poured…

03 Monday Jun 2024

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the bathtub pond has been running for enough days that it was time for the last goldfish to come out from their small condo in the house…

put a large rock in the pond so they could hide under it, added water from the pond to a bucket, and went into the house to catch them…

lucky for me, it didn’t take too long to collect the four of them…

brought them outside and left them in the pail to acclimatize for about twenty minutes and then poured them in;-)…

they went straight for the hiding place, lol…

collected…

28 Tuesday May 2024

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had some fun on Sunday when the fish moved from their condo, to the pond…

I caught the first few and then my housemate collected the rest from the first tank…

I used water from the pond and left them sitting by the pond for awhile to acclimatize before they went in…

took a bit to catch the rest from the second tank, but eventually they were all in the big pail…

they have barely shown themselves since making it into the pond… amazing how twenty-four fish can fit under the bridge, lol…

scrubbed…

15 Thursday Feb 2024

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spent some quality time with the fish over the last few days;-)…

pumps were scrubbed out and tank glass was cleaned…

I have started to feed them every other day to see if they might eat some of the algae on the rocks…

not sure if they are mad at me or not, lol…

smallest…

06 Monday Nov 2023

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when we were working in the garage recently, I found a collection of rocks and put some in a container to bring in the house for the smallest fish tank….

the fish didn’t want to move as I was putting the rocks into the tank, which was missing coverage on the bottom…

once done, the tank looked better and the fish seemed to approve;-)…

last year this tank held pond plants, but as the fish have grown, it seems like a good idea to provide a bit more room…

breaking…

30 Monday Oct 2023

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Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…

the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…

it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…

but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…

then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…

we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…

we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…

now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…

acclimatized…

23 Monday Oct 2023

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when we were in the garden on Sunday, we removed a ton of leaves from the pond… always makes me think of the lovely neighbours we have had over the years, being as how the tree that sheds those leaves is located in their yard, lol…

there were still numerous ones left, but we were able to dig down past them and catch three fish to bring into the house…

I wanted to do a bit of a test in the biggest tank to be sure that the water was safe for them…

after they acclimatized to the house temperature they made it into their condo…

so far they seem happy and healthy;-)…

iteration…

17 Monday Jul 2023

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the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…

hard to believe that much time has passed…

this is how it looked just as it was completed…

after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…

it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…

this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…

today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…