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Captive breeding Conservation Veterinary Information. Robyn's Homepage. Specializing in Nature, Animals, Fish, and Ponds Visit all 750 web pages with thousands of pages of information! Last Updated: 4/7/14 My first web page was created September, 1997. They were re-done beginning in June, 1998, and completed in August, 1998 separating nine pages into 46 pages (and 3 out of order pages with link to new page). I recently put up the old July 1998 version of my web site with nine pages on this subdirectory for fun.
Since then, more pages have been added as well and others have been separated. Robyn's most-often visited page (until 2003) was Robyn's Fishy Page which had over 73628 visitors from 9/97 to 6/03! On 5/3/03, I registered the URL fishpondinfo.com. On 3/20/04, I opened the Fishpondinfo Store so be sure to check it out! I made my 200th page on this site on 3/30/04! The site passed a million unique visitors since moving to Fishpondinfo.com by Thanksgiving 2004. Index: Cover Letter and Resume - Robyn's Resume Comments about Robyn's Web Pages Animals. Backyard Turtle Pond. Day 4 (July 11, 2004): Here is our star enjoying a bask during the last moments in his original home.
In a few short minutes, he would be moved into his new SUPER POND! A pump for general circulation (used later, on the waterfall), 10 feet of 1" diameter hose, a ball valve to adjust the flow, and three hose clamps. A few plants taken from the old pond, a few new stones, and you have an island in the sun. See Cooter swimming on the left. Last photo of Day 4 (July 11, 2004): A few more plants added (cattail, water poppies and duckweed from the pond store), some water flow, and some of that "ground cover material to prevent weeds from growing. " Day 5 (July 17, 2004): We finished placing the rocks along the edge of the base of the pond, and covered the area near the grass with mulch. We finished laying the ultimate dosage of stones and mulch by mid afternoon, but discovered that we needed about 25 more field stones to complete the south side (not visible in this photo).
Update: July 24, 2004: Aquatic Eco-Systems: Aquaculture, lakes, aquarium, koi ponds. Bio-filter diy fish pond make skippys veggy biofilter. But, in the second year (Summer 2004) things suddenly started going wrong. Three things seem to be the culprit:- The fish were much bigger, and eating more, were therefore excreting more. Even though we put more of the Fairy Moss in the pond to get more cover to keep out the sun, it didn't survive, we think the fish were eating it(?). The yellow-flowered Water Musk had pretty much taken over the entire bog-area, and so we had a mad fit and removed ALL of it! Ooops! In hindsight we now realise that the plants in the bog-area, with their massive root network, were acting as a wonderful natural "veggy-filter" to eat up nitrates in the water, hold back any crap being pumped out of the pond coming back down the stream, and provide a home for bacteria that was helping the whole "balance" process.
When we designed our pond, waterfall, stream and bog-area, we didn't really appreciate what a clever design we had given "nature" to work with. Initially we didn't figure out why it had happened. Skippy's Koi & Pond Page. Erik's Swimming Pool to Koi Pond Conversion. Welcome to my swimming pool to pond construction web page. I thought I would share with you a project I undertook converting a swimming pool to a pond. I moved into a house with an swimming pool near Portland, Oregon. I was always fond of ponds, and in fact, had built my first fish pond at my previous house.
I always wanted a larger pond and here was my chance. Feel free to browse through my pages. The Swimming Pool I started with this 24′ x 16′ x 7′ deep Doughboy pool. The New Pond The pond took me about five months of pacing myself to complete. Clay Model I made a clay model to scale, 1/4″ = 1′. Sandbags I used four truck loads of dirt, 400 sandbags, and countless hours of wheel barreling to fill in the swimming pool. Initial Fill I used a 30′ x 34′ piece of EPDM pond liner. Adding Rock Edging After filling the pond I used about 3 tons of Camas Gray 4″ A-cut rock and round 35-75 lb boulders to build the edging. Biological Vegi Filter Filter Construction Adding the Gravel Cleaning the Filter.