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Hardy Water Lilies Pond Plants – Pond Predator Protection For Goldfish

Hardy Water Lilies Pond Plants - Pond Predator Protection Goldfish
Hardy Water Lilies Pond Plants - Pond Predator Protection Goldfish

Sooner or later wildlife will soon visit your goldfish pond and hardy water lilies and pond plants are great pond predator protection for your fish. The more places your goldfish have to hide the better chance at survival. Hardy water lilies, floating aquatic plants and other water plants are a must for any garden pond. This gives your goldfish, koi or other fish plenty of places to hide. When having an outdoor pond you need to think of ways to protect your goldfish from pond predators.

Attraction Red Hardy Water Lilies - Pond Plants & Pond Predator Protection
Attraction Red Hardy Water Lilies – Pond Plants & Pond Predator Protection

With hardy water lilies the goldfish will be able to hide under the lily pads. This won’t be a for sure way to protect your pond fish but it will make it more difficult for them at least. When there are no hardy water lilies or other pond plants in your water garden it makes it pretty easy for a bird to swoop down and snatch up a goldfish for example. Water lilies are a great pond cover for fish. There are also other water plants that add protection such as floating aquatic plants like water hyacinths, water lettuce and parrots feather. Pond plants are a great natural way to protect your pond fish and have many benefits too.

Pond predator protection is a must for the overall safety of your goldfish. When caring for goldfish in a outdoor pond you can also think of buying pond predator protection decoys. A combination of hardy water lilies, pond plants and pond predator protection devices or decoys will help in the care of your goldfish.

I hope you don’t have any issues with any pond predators. If you do though, now you know a few ways to protect your goldfish. When building a pond always have some underwater caves built with rocks. Do as much as you can as you don’t want to go out to your pond one day to find out all your fish are gone. I’ve heard many stories and it’s sad to see your prized fish gone. Check out my other blog posts to on pond predator protection that can help you.

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
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How To Grow Duckweed Aquatic Floating Plants For Goldfish Feeding

How To Grow Duckweed Floating Aquatic Pond Plants For Goldfish Feeding
Duckweed, Floating Aquatic Water Plants, Pond Plants, Great For Feeding Goldfish

If you’re looking to cut down on cost for feeding your goldfish you should learn how to grow duckweed, floating aquatic plants. Duckweed is small tiny plants that goldfish, koi and other types of fish love to eat. Duckweed is very easy to grow and you can feed it to your goldfish, koi fish in ponds or aquariums.

Feeding Goldfish Duckweed - Pond Fish Eating Duckweed
Feeding Goldfish Duckweed – Pond Fish Eating Duckweed, Tiny Floating Aquatic Plants

How To Grow Duckweed To Feed Your Goldfish

  1. The first thing you’ll want to do is buy some duckweed from your local pet store. Most pet stores should have some available. If not a friend that has a pond and is in hobby might have a scoop to give you. It grows quick, a scoop is all you’ll need.
  2. Once you have your duckweed, grab a bucket from your house and fill it with water. If you have a pond, grab the water from there. Place the bucket in full sun.
  3. Place the duckweed in the container of water.
  4. Add some Miracle Grow fertilizer. I like to add some to the water to help with the duckweeds growth and faster reproduction. Plants need nutrients to grow and multiply.
  5. As the duckweed grows, scoop out some to feed to your goldfish.

That’s all there is to it! It’s pretty easy to grow duckweed. It’s not hard to learn how to grow duckweed and you can be feeding your goldfish these tiny floating aquatic plants in no time. Your goldfish will love it! Feeding goldfish duckweed and a variety of different foods is recommended as it will help keep your goldfish healthy. I hope you decide to grow your own duckweed for your goldfish.

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
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“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Feeding Goldfish Duckweed – Plant Food For Pond Fish or Aquariums

Feeding Goldfish Duckweed - Pond Fish Eating Duckweed
Feeding Goldfish Duckweed - Pond Fish Eating Duckweed, Tiny Floating Aquatic Plants

There’s nothing better then feeding goldfish duckweed whether it be for pond fish or aquarium fish. Duckweed is tiny floating water plants and helps keep your goldfish healthy with good digestion. Goldfish can easily digest duckweed and offers some fresh green plants to a goldfish diet. It’s always good to feed a wide variety of goldfish food that will help towards the overall health of your fish. Plant food for pond fish or aquarium fish is an excellent food source.

Feeding Goldfish Duckweed Live Floating Aquatic Plants
Feeding Goldfish Duckweed Live Floating Aquatic Plants

Duckweed is very easy to grow and your goldfish will love eating it. Feeding goldfish duckweed is something all goldfish keepers should do. First off goldfish love it and second duckweed reproduces very quickly. This will help cut down on your cost for goldfish food too. You can feed your goldfish duckweed in both fish ponds or aquariums. Feeding goldfish duckweed in the summer is very easy to do. Simply have a small container outside and as duckweed grows simply feed a small portion to your goldfish. They will love it! As you can see in the photos the goldfish love eating duckweed.

Feeding Goldfish Duckweed Fish Pond
Feeding Goldfish Duckweed Fish Pond

If you haven’t tried giving your goldfish some duckweed to eat you should. They love eating these tiny floating aquatic plants. Next time you’re at your local pet store or local nursery buy duckweed for your goldfish. Feed your goldfish some live aquatic floating water plants such as duckweed in their diet. Trust me, they’ll devour it in no time!! Duckweed is very easy to grow and care for too.

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
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“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Check Pond Water Temperature When Feeding Goldfish In Fall

It’s September now and are you checking the water temperature of the pond when feeding your goldfish? You need to start checking the temperature as you should be now feeding your pond fish a wheat germ based food as it’s easy to digest. You need to stop feeding your goldfish a high protein food like you did in the summer. If you don’t this could lead to goldfish health problems, diseases or illnesses.

Once you start noticing colder nights and the leaves changing colours you know that the pond water temperature is changing. I know that last few nights here have been colder so I went to check the water temperature in our ponds today and it’s 62 degrees fahrenheit or 16.67 degrees Celsius. We even have a risk of frost tonight that will lower the water temperature in the pond.

You should stop feeding your goldfish when the water hits 55 degrees. When you see your goldfish slowing down or not as active as normal, you know they are getting ready for hibernation. You must pay attention to the water temperature as what you do could impact the health of your goldfish.

Have you checked your water temperature in your goldfish pond yet? If not please do! Feeding goldfish in the fall is different then summer.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Garden Repeller Protects Goldfish From Pond Predators, Herons & Raccoons

We all know that pond predators like the heron and raccoons can be a nuisance when we have a garden pond in our backyard. I know for myself we live in the country and we have all sorts of wild life visiting our ponds on a daily basis. It’s frustrating and aggravating but you can do something about it to protect your pond fish with the garden repeller.

The garden repeller helped stop pond predators from eating their fish. I tried it too and it worked very well!

Garden Repeller Motion Activated Sprinkler System For Pond Predator Protection From Regal Gifts
My wife and I are a Regal Gifts Independent Representative and this summer they had an excellent product called the Garden Repeller that came out and it works great. Every morning I had a heron stop by about 6am every day. Pond nets only work so well so I decided to buy the garden repeller for myself to protect my goldfish and koi from predators. I hooked it up, the heron stopped by the next morning and the heron didn’t know what hit him. It shoots water up to 32 feet away. As soon as the bird or animal goes in front of the motion detector its sprays water at them. It’s basically a motion activated water sprinkler system. If your having a problem with herons, raccoons and other birds eating your goldfish then you should give it a try. It definitely works and it doesn’t hurt the animal in any way. You can keep them away with this garden repeller from Regal.

If you are having problems with birds visiting your pond you can go to our Moncton Gift Shop blog and learn about the garden repeller. You can also visit our Regal Website directly by going to http://gifts.shopregal.ca create an account and you can buy the garden repeller. For your reference it’s Item # HC3200.

Are you having pond predators visiting your pond? Tell me what you do to protect your pond fish from being eaten?

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How To Calculate Water Volume In Goldfish Pond? Pond Volume Calculator

You should know how to calculate your pond water volume for your water garden. You should know how much water is in your pond not just for the purpose of knowing how big of a pond pump you should buy but you should know in case your goldfish in your pond ever get sick. Sooner or later it’s inevitable that you will come across goldfish diseases and parasites that you will need to treat with fish medication.
Here’s how you figure out your pond volume simply by taking three measurements:

Always Know How To Calculate Pond Water Volume For Water Treatments or For Treating Goldfish Diseases

Length x Width x Average Depth x 7.49 US Gallons

1 foot x 1 foot x 1 foot = 1 cubic foot

1 cubic foot of water is equal to 7.49 US Gallons

To give you an example of calculating the pond water volume of my pond I’ll show you.

65 feet (length) x 22 feet (width) x 4 feet (average depth) = 5720 cubic feet
5720 cubic feet x 7.49 US Gallons = 42,842.8 gallons

The pond in the photo below is one of my parents, I’ll calculate their pond water volume as I forget now how much water their water garden holds.

10 feet (length) x 15 feet (width) x 3 feet (average depth) x 7.49 US Gallons =
3370.5 Gallons

Koi Fish & Goldfish Pond - My Parents Water Garden
You should always know how to calculate your pond water volume for your goldfish or koi pond. Sometimes you will need to treat your pond for diseases or to do water treatments. I hope that your goldfish stay healthy and live free of fish diseases but in case they get sick now you have your own pond water volume calculator formula here for you.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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Feeding Goldfish & Koi Trout Feed Pellets Bad For Health Care of Pond Fish

Many people have probably fed their goldfish and koi fish trout pellets in their ponds or even aquariums but please don’t. Feeding goldfish and koi trout feed is really bad for the health of your fish. Taking proper care of your pond fish involves feeding them a well balanced diet that is nutrient rich. Your fish also require being fed different fish foods not the same one day after day. Feeding goldfish and koi fish a variety of foods is highly recommended for the overall health of your fish.
Feeding goldfish trout feed pellets is not recommended at all. Trout feed contains high levels of oils, high on fat content and is a poor choice of food for your fish. Yes many of you will say it’s cheaper to feed your goldfish and koi that then other brand name foods. Your right, it is! I myself can buy a 50 lb. bag of trout feed for roughly $20 where I live but is it worth it? I’ll be honest when I first got in the hobby I fed my goldfish and koi fish trout food before but once I started doing research on it I stopped. I noticed that by feeding fish trout food it was leaving an oil film on the water surface and was affecting the water quality and was a health concern for fish. Fish food such as trout pellets that is high in fat and oil can contibute to fatty liver disease in fish.

Feeding Goldfish & Koi at Country Koi Fish Farm

Lets think about it this way, imagine if we ate at McDonalds everyday. You can get a value meal pretty cheap! Think of the amount of fat that your consuming on a daily basis, would this be good for your health? Feeding trout food to your goldfish and koi is about the same. I’m not going to say that McDonalds food is not great as we all like to have a treat every so often. Who can say no to a BigMac? :)With trout food you may be getting more for your buck in terms of quantity but you are lacking on quality. When feeding your goldfish and koi please think of their overall health as they need a nutrient rich food low in fat, high in protein. Feed your fish the right food and they’ll love you for it and live a longer happier life.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy

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Goldfish Pond Made With Hypertufa Mixture On The Side Walls of Pond

Do you know what hypertufa is? Don’t worry many people don’t but check out this goldfish pond we created in my parents backyard. We built this pond simply using wood but two summers ago we were experimenting quite a bit with hypertufa and decided to spice up their pond. This unique mixture of perlite, peat and cement gives the sides of the pond that aged look. Moss grows well on it and adds some cool character to any landscape.

What’s nice about using hypertufa is that there are so many things people can do with it. We decided to use the hypertufa mixture on my parents goldfish pond but we’ve done pillars, stepping stones, walkways, flower planters, fountains and more.

Goldfish Pond Made Using Some Hypertufa - Created A Nice Finish

Maybe you can get some ideas on what you could use hypertufa with around your water garden. I thought I’d share this with my readers here so they may get some ideas from it. I know I like working with hypertufa and love the results I got from adding this mixture to the above ground pond as seen above. Start off small and build some stepping stones leading to your pond that would look great in your yard!

Goldfish Pond Made With Hypertufa
If you want to learn more about hypertufa you can visit our blog at www.HypertufaGardening.com

Hope you enjoy the site and the photos above of the goldfish pond made with hypertufa. You wouldn’t be able to see the pond in the backyard today with the blizzard we just got dumping between 40-50cm of snow in Moncton. Hopefully spring will be around the corner so we can all enjoy our ponds once again and that winter soon comes to an end.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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How To Prevent and Control Algae Blooms In Goldfish Ponds? Get Rid Of Algae!

Does your goldfish pond suffer from green water? If so then you need to read this article and learn how to prevent and control algae blooms. Green water in ponds can be frustrating but there are simple things that can be done to help control algae from occurring.

In spring and summer different things need to be done such as maintenance, using the proper equipment and using the right pond supplies.
Here are some simple things that can help you prevent, control and get rid of algae or green water:

Water Lilies, Water Lettuce, Water Hyacinths will help control and prevent algae blooms!

1. Clean your goldfish pond and remove any dead or decaying leaves from trees, water lilies etc.. If you don’t this helps feed algae and causes algae blooms.

2. In spring add in a bag of barley which works well towards algae control. If your looking to have crystal clear water in your goldfish pond then you need to buy some barley. I use this every year and it works amazing!

3. Add water plants! By adding water plants such as water lilies, water hyacinths, water lettuce etc.. will help shade your pond preventing sunlight from entering your pond therefore slowing the growth. Pond Plants also feed on the same nutrients as algae therefore starving it.

4. Use a UV Sterilizer to control algae. A UV sterilizer basically zaps algae cells with its ultraviolet light and prevents it from growing.

5. Stop over feeding your pond fish! By feeding your fish too much food it can contribute to algae growth. The more fish waste there is equals more natural fertilizer in the water, therefore more algae. Feed your goldfish less and they will search and eat algae in the pond and help control algae.

6. The last thing you can do to eliminate or get rid of algae is through the use of algaecides. This is one method of algae control that I will never recommend. It’s an option but I don’t recommend using it. The above methods of preventing and controlling algae work just fine. Algaecides are too risky in my books!

I hope that these above methods helps you to prevent and control algae in your pond. This will help you get that crystal clear pond water you’ve always been looking for! Stop algae once and for all and enjoy the water garden you’ve always dreamed of.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy
“Helping Goldfish Owners With Advice, Fish Care and Fish Medication Treatments for Goldfish Diseases, Illnesses and Parasites”

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How To Prevent and Control Mosquitoes in Goldfish Ponds and Backyard Ponds?

If your looking at building a goldfish pond in your backyard you should know how to prevent and control mosquitoes. Many people are not aware but controlling mosquitoes starts right from the building process of your new water garden and planning where you want your water plants, what type of aquatic plants and what type of fish.

There are many ways you can control and prevent mosquitoes in a goldfish pond and here are just a few examples:

Pond Mosquitoes - Learn How To Prevent Them

1. Have good water circulation in your fish pond using the proper size pond pump. Did you know that a pond should circulate 1 time every hour? Stagnant water is where mosquitoes are bound to lay their eggs.

2. Potted plants flush with the water level are perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Your goldfish are not able to eat the mosquito larvae inside the potted water plant and it’s still stagnant water perfect for breeding mosquitoes.

3. Have enough goldfish in your pond that you are able to accommodate. The more fish you have in your pond the more mosquito larvae they can consume.

4. Buy mosquito dunks! You can place them in your pond, they are safe for fish and plants and help controls the mosquito population. It releases a mosquito larvicide that mosquito larvae eat and kills them. Works for 30 days! Kills mosquito larvae in ponds, birdbaths and standing water.

5. Stop feeding your goldfish in your pond! Did you know there is enough food in your pond that you don’t really need to feed your goldfish. The hungrier they are the more mosquito larvae they’ll search for an eat.

6. Want the perfect fish pond with no mosquitoes? Buy some mosquito fish! Mosquito fish will eat mosquito larvae in the pond as well as eat mosquitoes flying in the air by shooting water at them. The mosquitoes will land on the water surface and the mosquito fish will eat them.

I hope these above suggestions gives you some insight on how to control and prevent mosquitoes in your goldfish pond so that you can enjoy your water garden for years to come.

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