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Top 10 Native Perennial Plants For Your Water Garden
Our top 10 picks for winter hardy native water garden plants. Includes white, yellow, blue, purple, and red flowers and all kinds of different foliage shapes and sizes.
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Koi Pond Depth- The Underappreciated Dimension
The first thing we notice when coming up to view a pond is the water’s surface dimensions- length, width, and overall shape. And while it’s true that this viewing window frames the perspective and defines how the pond fits into the overall landscape, ultimately it is the pond’s depth that best reflects what we see…
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Herons, Ospreys, Eagles Oh My… If You Build It They Will Come
Here in the Mid Atlantic region, we are blessed with an abundance of big beautiful rivers, lakes, and other freshwater systems and over the last 50+years we’ve done an excellent job of cleaning them up. Fish populations have recovered and sometimes even exceeded historical levels, and with them our large native water birds including bald…
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The Organic Carbon Cycle And Your Pond… And Why You Should Care
New pond syndrome vs old pond syndrome. The nitrogen cycle vs the organic carbon cycle. Most pond owners are familiar with the importance of the nitrogen cycle in establishing a new pond with an appropriately sized biofilter to detoxify ammonia and nitrites. Far fewer fully understand the organic carbon cycle and how, if not properly…
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To UV Or Not To UV… That Is The Question
To answer this question, we must first understand what UV sterilizers do (and don’t do). UV sterilizers sterilize. A strong ultraviolet light is used to “burn up” everything living in your water that is directly exposed to it- most visibly planktonic algae (phytoplankton) but also all the associated zooplankton as well. Most zooplankton is harmless…
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Koi Pond Optimal Water Parameters
Alkalinity optimum range: 4-10 dKH, or 72-180 ppm. Water in the low end of this range is considered soft, while water in the high end is considered hard. Koi do just fine in either, provided your levels remain stable over time Optimal water temperature for maximum koi growth and activity level: 75 deg F. This is my…
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