Pond Life...
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A Beginner's Guide to Fish Breeding
If you’re a fish-fan, then sooner or later the prospect of breeding your own is almost certainly going to appeal – always assuming your fish haven’t already beaten...
A Beginner's Guide to Keeping Koi
Few cold water fish can compete with Koi, whether that’s in terms of their variety of patterns and colours, their long history and cultural traditions, or just their...
All About Pond Dipping
Pond dipping can provide hours of education and entertainment – offering children all the fun of rock-pooling without the need to drive to the sea-side – but like...
Choosing the Right Fish for Your Pond
For many people, a pond without fish is an impossible idea and choosing them can often be one of the most rewarding aspects of water gardening....
Dealing With Pond Pests and Predators
Pests are a feature of the pond just as much as they are in the rest of the garden, but keeping them under control calls for a slightly different...
Encouraging Wildlife to Your Pond
With natural lakes and wetlands disappearing from the countryside at an alarming rate – over 70 per cent of the UK’s ponds have disappeared in the last hundred years or...
Fish Diseases and Ailments
Just like us, fish suffer from their share of health problems and there are few things more alarming than noticing that some of your prized pond life is looking ill...
Frogs and Frogspawn
Frogs have a special place in the hearts of most wildlife pond-keepers if only because they seem so very willing to reward our efforts by using our ponds so readily....
Growing Water Lilies Successfully
With their lush floating vegetation and elegantly showy flowers, water lilies are probably the best known and most instantly recognised of all aquatic plants and make...
How Wildlife Friendly is Your Pond?
Natural wetlands have been disappearing from the British countryside at an alarming rate over the last fifty years or so, which makes it hardly surprising that...
Looking After Your Fish
Around 90 per cent of the health problems and deaths in fishponds can be put down to poor husbandry. Having taken the trouble to select your fish carefully avoiding any...
Newts and Toads
While frogs have almost made the garden pond their own, the other British amphibians have generally fared less well faced with the rapidly dwindling availability of...
Pond Life - Dragonflies and Their Relatives
A brightly coloured dragonfly zipping across the surface of a pond is one of the iconic images of a British summer - though in some parts of the...
Pond Snails in Your Pond
Few issues divide the ranks of pond-keepers quite so readily as the topic of pond snails. To some they are nothing more than an aquatic version of an all too...
Preventing and Treating Plant Eating Insects and Other Pests
Water gardens like all gardens; suffer from the attentions of plant eating insects and other pests. Although the closed nature of the pond e...
Protecting Your Pond Life From Predators
There are probably few things quite so disheartening than having established your beautiful fish or wildlife pond only to see its inhabitants...
