Q: What are winter fish kills and how can I prevent them? – Alison in Illinois
Winter Fish Kills, They Don’t Float With Us!
You’ve waited all Winter long for the ice to melt over your water garden so you can run your waterfalls and enjoy your finned friends. Instead, you find your fish floating at the [...]
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You’ve bought the products; you’ve read the blogs; now it’s time to get your feet wet.
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Q: I found what looks like a sore on my koi. What should I do? Could this of happened over winter? – Fred in Kentucky
A: As we close in on spring and the ice melts off of our water gardens, our koi start to become lively again. This is a very crucial [...]
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Now that we’re at winter’s peak, many of us begin to think about the coming spring. As we start the spring to-do list, we remember those poor little koi that are out in the water garden. Since you’ve kept a hole open in the ice all winter, you really have nothing to worry about, right?
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They ribbit and hop in your pond all spring, summer and fall, but when the cold weather comes, your frogs seem to disappear. Don’t worry – they don’t croak! They simply take a long winter nap…
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Some pond deicers do cost a lot of money to run – but there is an alternative. Unless you’re lucky enough to like in a climate that doesn’t freeze…
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The bane of fishpond owners, great blue herons, will make a quick meal out of pricey koi and graceful goldfish. The good news is…
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Who wouldn’t want to enjoy their pond all year long? Whether you live in a warm climate or cold…
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As the temperatures fall, we may be pulling out our winter coats and goulashes, but your fish don’t need them at all! In fact, pond fish, like koi and goldfish…
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As the weather changes, pond and water garden centers remind their customers to feed a different diet to their fish – a wheat germ based diet. Why? What’s the difference? Do fish experience…
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