Small Ponds

Advice for small pond owners

Pond Heaters And DeIcers

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Of all the useful pond accessories that exist for winter use, a pond heater or deicer is an affordable and easily installed solution to protect your fish in a small pond. The video below will explain how they work, and where they work best. In some ways the name “heater” isn’t entirely accurate although the … Read more

A Simple Pond Tool To Monitor Seasonal Changes

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Watch the short video below where I cover one of the simplest but most useful pond care tools to use during the fall, winter, and spring. It’s such a simple thing, but a pond thermometer will help you keep tabs on where your pond stands as the weather get’s colder. Actually it’s good any time … Read more

Question: Should Beneficial Pond Bacteria Be Used In The Winter?

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One question I get asked a lot in the fall of every year is, “should I continue to use beneficial bacteria in my pond even though it’s getting cold?” It’s a great question and one that I’ll cover in the video below as well as the short article a bit farther down the page. There’s … Read more

Aeration Tips For Winter Pond Care

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Pond aeration, as you know is often a necessity in the hot weather of summer, but did you know it can be helpful in the winter too? It’s true, but it’s useful to know how to set it up correctly to get the best results in your pond and protect your fish. The video below will help you do that.

Simple Steps To Improve Winter Pond Aeration

Added oxygen is vital to protect fish and get the best results with aerobic bacteria, and it’s well documented that as water temperature rises above 78 degrees it simply cannot hold as much oxygen. Also when you have various water quality problems, such as algae, sometimes this can be directly attributed to low oxygen levels. If oxygen is insufficient, aerobic bacteria simply can’t work as well, or as vibrantly, and this is what actually keeps organic nutrient levels in check. As these rise, so do water quality issues.

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Pond Netting Particulars

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With the coming of fall, pond netting becomes an ever increasingly valuable tool to help keep any small pond or water garden clean. Ideally you want to keep most leaf debris out as best you can, and netting is the best deterrent to do that. If you have a skimmer system, that will help a … Read more

Pond Muck Reduction And Cleaning

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Ponds, simply due to their structure of being a big depression in the ground, are catch-all’s for a lot of things. Unfortunately a lot of this accumulation is organic debris that will eventually break down into a messy muck or sludge.

It’s been said that one of the pond owner’s main goals, if not THE main goal is to slow this process of “filling in” down as much as possible. Once this muck starts to rot and stink, it’s built up to the point where the pond’s natural assimilation processes just aren’t able to keep up with it any longer.

What’s unfortunate is that this mucky compost doesn’t just affect the bottom of the pond. And while it’s true that it serves as a really easy place for weed seeds to get established and rooted, it also releases so many nutrients that algae will often form below and above the water’s surface.

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