Fun Pond Fact

Pond Fish are attracted to Pond Lights.
They are curious and will swim around them.
This is a nice added benefit to lighting up your pond.
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Fun Pond Fact

Koi can get a sunburn!
(It is very important to provide shade
inside the Pond during the summer months).

Fun Pond Fact

Wonderful Fertilizer!

That is what that stuff coming out of your Pond is:
Bottom Sludge and the stuff being cleaned out of your Pond Filter,....
put it around your plants and watch them thrive!

Fun Pond Fact

Water spiders collect air and store it in the strands of their underwater webs for use as needed.

Fun Pond Fact

While Koi spawn only once a year, Goldfish spawn all spring, summer and fall. Goldfish need to be only about 2 inches long to start spawning (have babies).

Fun Pond Fact

Only ONE of every 10,000 frog eggs
develops into an adult frog successfully!




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Pond Fun Fact

A sure sign of Spring: You start hearing Frogs around your Pond!

Tree and Wood Frogs tend to be the first ones ready to mate.
Don't destroy the eggs!

A Garden Pond provides valuable habitat
to substitute for habit that we have destroyed by building homes,
roads and other infrastructure!

The mating season of Frogs only lasts a few weeks
and after that quiet will return!

Fun Pond Fact

Herons love Pond Fish! They are colorful, easy to see, easy to catch and have limited escape opportunities!
The good news is that we know Heron's are very territorial
and once ONE has his eye on your Pond, the others will stay away.

Heron Decoys are a great way to keep Herons from fishing in YOUR Pond!

Fun Pond Fact

The fat in a Koi's body can get so cold and stiff that
they may swim in some really strange positions (on their side, head down, etc),
but once the water warms up this condition usually cures itself.

Fun (Pond) Fact

The fat in a Koi's body can get so cold and stiff
that they may swim in some really strange positions (on their side, head down, etc), but once the water warms up this condition usually cures itself.

Fun Pond Fact

UV Clarifiers used for clearing up that pea soup look in Fish and Water Garden Ponds don't actually kill the algae causing it.

In Fact, the algae small enough to pass by the UV light is made sterile by the UV Clarifier.
Belief it or not, most algae doesn't have a very long lifespan.
Algae reproduces extremely fast and that is why it is able to turn Pond water into what looks like pea soup.

Taking away the algae's ability to reproduce makes the battle a whole lot easier to win.

Reducing the amount of nutrients in your Fish Pond by using Beneficial Bacteria, Algaecides, and having Plant coverage over half to three-fourths of the surface water of the Pond all help reduce the chances of pea soup look coming back.

Pond and Garden Fun Fact

Green Water Algae has a relatively short life span.
I know that it is hard to believe when your Fish Pond looks like pea soup, but the individual cells making your water green actually only live for a few days.
These individual algae cells reproduce on such a fast rate that they are capable of making your water look green.


Not to worry though, because UV Clarifiers help keep your Green Water Algae under control. Algaecides and reducing the amount of nutrients in your water garden by using Beneficial Bacteria helps even more.

Fun Pond Fact

Toads like to spend the winter close to the Pond!
Don't clean up too good around the Pond, leave a brush pile or two
for them to dig into and hide!

Fun (Pond) Fact

Pond Fish can be moved safely as long as the water temperature is 50 degrees Fahrenheit or above, but care must be taken to adjust the temperature of their current environment to their future one (let the fish bag float for 10 - 15 minutes for example).

Fun (Pond) Fact (TM)

If they have not already in your area, they will soon....
Frogs and Pond Toad will lay their eggs!
How to tell which is which?
Frog eggs are inside what can easily be described as "one big glob",
Toad eggs are encased in long strings!

Fun (Pond) Fact!

Dragonflies and Damselflies are two different creatures!
Damselflies fly slower due to their wing shape, while Dragonflies do not have hinges to fold their wings but Damselflies do.

Fun (Pond) Fact!

Many insects survive the winter in the bottom of the Fish Pond including the larvae of Dragonflies and Damselflies (also called "Nymphs"). They like to burrow under dead leaves and twigs along with other insect eggs and larvae.