The floating plants are taking over the pond
Posted by Anja on September 6, 2008 at 14:52 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:55… which makes the fish happy. And us, too, because it takes care of the algae.
Update
Posted by Anja on July 19, 2008 at 15:44 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:46Plan B on the prowl through the reeds:
We bought new water plants, which have to be properly potted up now:
Finally! New pics!!!
Posted by Anja on June 19, 2008 at 16:42 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:43The pinks are in full bloom, the daylilies bushy and the berm’s filling up.
We recently added 10 White Cloud Mountain Minnows, very tiny. They get chased by the goldfish quite a bit. I hope they don’t get eaten. They won’t be able to overwinter outside, but will have to come inside when it gets cold.
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Posted by Anja on April 23, 2008 at 10:35 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:04It’s a wonderful feeling to see all three of the goldfish back? They even grew a bit, I think (about finger length), but they’re certainly ravenous. We had a bunch of algae in the pond, and even though we took some out, they did quite a job in getting rid of the rest. I started feeding them again two days ago. One of them, unfortunately came through the winter with a bit of tail rot, but he seems perky otherwise, and I’m only treating with Mela- and Pimafix. Hope it gets better.
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Posted by Anja on April 6, 2008 at 18:41 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:40It’s slowly getting a little warmer. A lot of the snow has melted over the last week.
We’ve on and off seen the two orange of our goldfish over the past couple of days, but today we were finally able to ascertain that all three of them are in fact alive and well and happily nibbling on the algae that the longer days bring to our ponds. (Man, there’s a lot of those.)
And the wind blows
Posted by Anja on January 9, 2008 at 10:30 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:33
This morning it swept our BBQ off the deck and one of the solar garden lights into the pond. Complete with the hook it hung on. From time to time the whole house shakes under the fist of a gale (74 km/h the weather report says). The neighbours’ discarded Christmas trees are rolling across the road along with a lonely trashcan nobody seems to miss yet. It’s juuuust a bit spooky.
Last night rain and lightning pelted us, and with *plus* 11C this weird January heat wave (the average temperature for this time of year is supposed to be -10C) has even the fishes confused – they swim around once more in the ice-free pond, thinking it’s spring.
Plan B (left) and Agent Orange (right) have been spotted frolicking in the balmy waters. We hope Moe is still alive as well. He’s a hard one to make out with his camouflage colour.
A curious peak in the skimmer revealed three dead frogs on the bottom (a bit icky, that) and two live, if very sluggish ones on the rim and the branch that’s floating inside. We’ve since heard the skimmer referred to as ‘the place where frogs go to die’. *le sigh*
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Posted by Anja on October 4, 2007 at 15:17 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:18The frogs accumulate like nuts
Feeding the fish occasionally is sheer indulgence, they’re getting on fine without our help. We’ll have to stop soon as the weather gets colder, though.
Mo’ fish
Posted by Anja on September 29, 2007 at 20:15 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:16We added two more comets to bring the number back up to three: Agent Orange, who has beautiful black markings on his fins, and Plan B, the orange and white one.
Fish
Posted by Anja on September 24, 2007 at 19:07 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:10We seeded with starter bacteria, bought three comets from the feeder bin: Curly (white), Larry (orange) and Moe (black). Unfortunately Larry didn’t survive the day and Curly followed him within 72 hours. We learned that feeder bin fish aren’t necessarily the healthiest ones around.
