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Hiya, Loving this. I have a couple of old sinks in the back garden up here in sunny scotland. currently they are daphnia farms but i'm planning on making mini ponds out of them and have been looking around for others ideas. I'll post some photos when i get home although i'm still at the...

currently very seriously considering building an Walipini (underground greenhouse) with massive living tropical pool at the back wall for heat storage at my new place up here in the highlands. among other plans. :)

it's for the large one i mentioned in another post in this section. standard fish, exceedingly large will have to have alot of plants. currently unfiltered/unpumped. its more like a small lake :) but they are total newbies in pond keeping but he loves gardening.

Hi, I'm thinking about sending my dad a pond book for xmas to help him along. Has anyone got an recommendations for reading on the subject? Best Regards, John

my folks are a bit old for a dog now. i could possibly suggest some kind of big wild cat that could live in one of the out buildings, might help with the mice issue too.

Does anyone sell plastic dead herons? :D I read a couple of things about raising the wall around the pond (currently one course of rocks) as they need ledges to fish from. Is that true?

They have the plastic heron thing and its sussed it already, even after i told them to keep moving it around. Currently the pond is deadly with loads of mono-filament fishing wire stuff criss crossing it plus netting but its still getting the fish. Looks awful.

evil but no, my folks are bird watchers and they would never let me. something more humane is needed.

Hi, Is shooting them the only way to get truly rid of them? 8) Discuss. Best Regards, John

a really big koralia... :D

Hi, Left this one for a while after giving the family some "tips" from here. My dad has pulled back the grass from the shallow end to expose another few feet of buried stones. The grass had been doing a capillary action and causing the level of the water to drop by about 4 inches between heavy...

Hi, Looks like Crassula helmsii to me. I'm going to dump the stuff i remove onto the grass compost heap where it should be safe with no nearby streams or open water. On a plus note i've discovered we have a pond vac somewhere in one of the out buildings. So i'll get on that next week. Best...

just did some reading on Crassula helmsii, scary stuff. It does cover about 3/4 of the entire pond to the full depth in some places. We are no where near any natural water courses here so i might just dispose of it on the grass cutting compost heap. Unless it still grows there?!?! I'll do some...

Hi, Started doing some tidying today. The weed stuff is crazy, it fills probably half the area of the pond, so im going take alot of it out. Today i just skimmed out what dead leaves and stuff i could reach from the side. I'm going to get the waders on tomorrow and get in to do some more. Did...

Hi, There isnt an option to dig it deeper so that is a no go. And Koi also is out as we are so far north the pond isnt deep enough to cope with the freezing over in winter. As for what i see it turning into, a few goldfish. Nicely planted. Clean with more plants around the edge my dad would be...

Oh and i've told them that all the heron does is attract the real one that comes and visits. John

Hi, So, my parents recently moved house to north of Aberdeen as they reason they have 10 years of legs left in them to do up another house. They now have this lovely homestead in farmland quite near to where donald trump is going to build his mega golf resort. In the grounds of this house is...