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How Big is My Pond?

How Big is My Pond?

Guesses and wrong calculations are often more than 100 gallons off! A hundred gallons can mean the difference between a healthy dose or an overdose of medication and, in turn, the difference between life and death of pond inhabitants.
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Preventing and Treating Ich in Your Pond

Preventing and Treating Ich in Your Pond

To treat Ich, you need to add pond salt to the water. You add salt to provide essential electrolytes to help fish reach peak coloration and vitality. It also helps gill function, reduces stress, improves osmoregulation, and speeds disease recovery. 
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Basic Pond Fish Needs

Basic Pond Fish Needs

It is best to think of pond fish in the same way that one would think of fish in an aquarium. Both are in a synthetic environment that is on a closed circuit, meaning the same water is simply recycled within a designated area.
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Preventing Anchor Worms on Your Pond Fish

Preventing Anchor Worms on Your Pond Fish

Anchor worms to fish are much like ticks to dogs, they embed themselves and feed! despite its name, it is not a worm, but a large, parasitic crustacean of the Lernaea species. Although this parasite can infect any fish, pond fish are most susceptible.
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What U.V. Sterilizers can do For Your Pond

What U.V. Sterilizers can do For Your Pond

Ponds are one of the most creative ways to add distinction and diversity to your landscape. Ponds can also be a huge headache once the warmer weather arrives and the algae start to take over.
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Controlling Pond Fish Predators

Controlling Pond Fish Predators

You have designed and set up your pond and stocked it with Koi and other pond fish. One of the first problems you will encounter is how to control nuisance wildlife or birds from eating your fish and destroying your pond.
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Pond Fish Hibernation

Pond Fish Hibernation

Pond fish need a break too! During the winter months, it is an absolute truism that pond fish do in fact hibernate. When the fish in a pond reach this time in the season, their metabolism slows with the cooling of the pond water.
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