Archive for July 2015

Question: I’m currently building a waterfall and I would like to have my lights built into the stone.Any suggestions about the type of lights to use.They won’t be be fully submerged but they do have to be waterproof Answer: PondMarket has what you are looking with these wonderfully fantastically camouflaged Halogen RockLights with Transformers

Question: Help! We recently bought a house with a pond in the back. It is losing water, about one inch per day, and I don’t know the first thing about fixing it. I am concerned with the winter coming up since we will be turning off all the outside water and have no way to…

Question: I recently bought a home in Vienna, VA in the Washington DC area. It has a concrete pond that’s about 300 gallons. It has about a dozen goldfish ranging in size from the length of an index finger to tiny — 12 or 13 total. I followed the directions left by the previous owner…

Question: I added 2 air stones and an air pump to the pond this year. Should I leave it running all winter? I do leave the waterfall running and the pond doesn’t freeze except for some small places along the edge. Thanks! Answer: A fish pond can never have too much oxygen. Since you have…

Question: I have a very small pond with gold fish. I have a heater to keep from freezing now. Do I still feed them? and do I need the filter to be running in the winter time. We are in Missouri. Answer: You should not feed the fish =”https://www.pondmarket.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=2″>filter, but you need some type of…

Question: We have a pond that was constructed with the really large rocks with gravel on the bottom. My problem is that I my water level drops really frequently and I am afraid that I have a leak. How in the world do I go about finding a leak in such a large pond. We…

Question: i wanted to know if it is possabale to use a galvanized container for a fish pond. Will the metal hurt the quality of the water? Answer: Using a galvanized container as a fish pond can present a variety of future problems, including leaks where rust is almost certain to set in. It is…

Question: In the winter is it sufficient to unplug the spray fountain ,but, leave it in the water or does the fountain itself need to be removed? We live in Md. and it gets cold. I don’t want to break it. Thanking you in advance…Ann Answer: Generally it is best to remove the fountain, clean…

Question: I recently had a great blue heron attack my pond. Before I could get the net on, he got my koi and put a hole in the bottom of the liner. The rocks around my pond are cemented, so I don’t want to have to replace the whole liner. Would I be able to…

Question: we just recently moved into a new home and inherited a beautiful 2500 gallon Koi pond with about 6 large fish and a few babies. we live in ohio so we have a deicer on the pond, we emptied out on the line of the waterful and pulled the pump out. We did add…