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If you have a clay siol it may be strong enough to put a liner in a hole. I have a fine sand soil with no strength so I used cinder blocks and covered them with plastic foam to protect the liner from the cinder block. It has been working well for 10yr.

If the bass are not big enough to eat the Koi, you will not need to concern yourself with the kinds of fish , as the koi will keep a mud bottom churned-up so you can't see any fish. At least on a very similar pond I saw in Houston.

Get a case of beer, or however much it takes for you to relax for over a week. Drink the beer, do not feed or look at the pond for a week . It should then be clear; only possible problem is the gravel, Koi wil stir it up ,sometimes.

Carp/goldfish havs been introduced (from Europe) into about every body of water in North America. IF there are no carp ,it is because the natives ate them. Also, goldfish have been sold as bait fish (and some have escaped). Back to the original question ; I have four 20"+/- and one 16" Koi in a...

Modern mirrors are coated with aluminum and the some black coating like laquer. I have use the cheap 12" squares and the cheap door mirrors for aquariums. If you cut them ( like I did to cover inside a pendant light) corrosion will start at the cut edges. I would say the corrosion (of the...

I would say the chances of sucess are "slim" and "none". The modulus of 4mm acrylic is probably about 1/10 th that of 6mm glass. So the acrylic will deform much more than the glass under a load. The "slim" chance of working is if the bond is very strong and holds the acrylic ; Think of it as...

Hornwort,salvinias,parrot feather (myrophyllum) ,acoris(best bog plant). Hyacinth, lettuce, parrot feather and others are illegal in some states.

Good Grief; enough of the equipment salesmen. Chill out ; get a beer or a coolade, and set in the shade. It is very typical for a new pond (and Aquariums) to get an algae bloom for a few days, or more. Get some more beer and come back in a week. Throw in some floating and/or mid water...

Sorry to read of your problem. I never use conditioners; I limit city water additions to 10% max, no problem . BUT, I did forget the hose once and did a 70%? change; It took 12 hr for my 5 Koi ( 18" +/-) to die. Even though I moved them to a 2000gal established (aged) "spare" pond (12' above...

The drinking fountains can cost more than a refridgerator (just got a couple for our church). For fresh water you could used galvanized or bare steel pipe in the refridgerator; normal water changes will easily take care of the trace of zinc. For a salt tank you need titanium or high nickel...

Why not ? I used a 15ft diameter X 42" high to grow out baby Koi one year. I generally did not use filtering. The same pool is now at my sons house , it has grandkids in it in the summer and bluegills in the winter. I dished down the center at least another 12".

I had a 135 set up in the backyard for a year; then I emptied it and moved it to a different spot for a few months. It is now in the garage wall (and still holds water ). I believe it is very important for the soil to be flat, and free of rocks, sticks , etc. Level is also good.

Yeah, like "train" said; the strength of the balcony is your most serious question. And the lumber size/type is not all ;how well did the contractor build it? I had a house once with plenty of 2" X8" s in the balcony, but I had to substantially reinforce the attachment to the house. I have it ...

Or 7.5 gallons/cu ft. Or , for really irregular shapes : measure how long it takes your garden hose to exactly fill a 5 gal or other exact size container. Then measure how long it takes to fill the pond, and do the math.

I have used a lot of Eastern Red Cedar from limestone areas; It makes interesting stumps in reasonable sizes. Get stuff that has weathered a few years. The final step is critical; take the garden hose and wash off dirt and bugs; I hope nobody tells me this won't work because I have been doing it...

Your photos give me goose bumps. The lowest water temp I measured is 54F, but I believe my 1000 g pond got to about 50F. I float house sheathing foam panels on it during cold spells ( air got to +18F for a short time). I have about a 70 watt pump and I occasionally used a 150watt heater in...

Summer in ND; what is that ? The second week in July ? I grew out several young angels in a 110 Rubbermaind here in the tropics ( I have a lot of shade),They were in for about 4mos, I don't remember any problems. My biggest problem for fish smaller than one ft long are water snakes; I guess you...

There are coating materials availabe as this has been done for oilwell pipe for 40yr, with various degrees of sucess. Like conventional coating; 95% of the problems come from surface preparation. I think you would be better off to use some industrial coating/paint. Try Carboline, Ameron...

Kingfishers or cormorants would also be an interesting in a very large paladurum. :ROFL:

Let me check my FINKS index for X-ray diffraction patterns. By golly , "dolomites" are a series of specific minerals with different "D" spacing depending on the amount of lattice distortion depending on the amount of Mg substituted for Ca ( not considering the Ba, Sr, or Ra present). My point...