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Is cricket wicket palletized lime?. Like lime for your lawn?
I am wanting to build a Koi pond. But I’m not too sure on what filter would be the best. I have a pump that would work just fine, but I want it to be an ecosystem pond. What filter would be the best?
Honestly love this Mark!! I just turned 25 and have a passion for aqua-landscaping and providing more habitit for wildlife, i'm about to leave my job of 5yrs with the ain of learning how to professionally creat/fit water features after making 7 wildlife and ecosystem ponds for friends/family!! Not enough people have been educated onon the way that certain types of aquatic/marginal plants *CAN* clean up the water in the pond so effectively!! Keep doing what you're doing mate.
Hi hope all OK. No videos for a few months?
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What about oxygenating plants ?
Great conversation. Even if this doesn’t come to fruition, it’s an interesting conversation nonetheless and awareness is improving significantly
Mark are you still building ponds. I’m between Stratford upon Avon and Birmingham and have an area I think I could have a pondless waterfall and would like to discuss and get a quote.
Sick Pond! I've a question, why did you have to take the turf away either side of the pond? It's something to do with the level but I can't work it out.
Hello Thanks for the video I am looking for a pool I don't want ro put fish in because I've had them taken before but just for water sound like river can tou recommend which pump to get please. Thank s
Hi, I’m having about one dead fish a month. I don’t know how old the said fish were. A lot have had no damage on at all but today I took out a dead fish which was covered in dark brown spots of all sizes. It smelt pretty bad too. I can’t find any help on you tube 🤷🏼♀️ Any ideas please? Thank you
You're a dream come true. Thank you. I appreciate your knowledge, and sincerity to help others.
I came to see algae eating a pond fish, but it's not as I expected.
I have Hayfever
I would like to use plants in gravel with the main purpose of removing nutrients from the water . I recently re-lined the pond with a butyl liner and an refilling it with rain water off a garage roof. It's about 5,000 litres. It is ominously going a little green. I have used barley straw extract and have put in some barley straw bales. Do you think i could use plants to take nutrients out of the water? If so any recommendations as to how to do it. There are no fish in the pond.
How much it costed the Japanese style pond?
Hey Mark, I really could do some help from you with my fountain pond. It's getting so much of elegy blanket. I really don't know what to do. I would really appreciate if you could make visit to us I'll be happy to take care of your cost. I'm in Stourbridge. Looking forward to hearing back from you
That was a wonderful learning experience for me as well! Charlotte you did fabulous and thank you for allowing me to join you on your learning journey!
How thick of a liner do you like and gph pump size?
hello...does water lettuce roots reach down into the pond bottom/dirt ? I
Can I seal cracks in my concrete pond with this foam? I tried silicon chalk ten years ago and the chalk is coming loose now. Can I trowel it flat over areas that may be leaking? Thanks for this information. I never heard about this product.
I have a pond without any fish that I'm struggling to keep clean. Just gets very dark and murky algae Etc. What would you advise on how to keep that clean because there are no fish I can imagine I can hit it with stronger stuff? Any products or maintenance that you can recommend. Thank you I really appreciate it. Do those small plug-in UV filters work? I don't have any major filtering installed. It's just a pond with a pump to keep the water circulating
I can not understand why each and every video or article on the matter adress only one side of the problem, which is from my experience a lot less common. More often you need to lowrer the Ph, especially when you trying to fight algee. And no, Ph 8,5 is not good.
Extremely detailed ❤❤❤❤
Sorry you guys talk way to much lol I wanna see more of the actual work 😢
Some of those are just stunningly beautiful.
Im working on a pond for my grandma's red eared slider (turtle) thats 6 foot by 9 foot and 3 feet deep with a shelf on the 6 foot side going an additional 18 inches back and 18 inches down for plants. Going to line it with 45 mil EPDM and was not aware i needed an underlayment. I have some 20 mil fiber reinforcement greenhouse plastic and was hoping it will work if I double it up.
Great video but i was wondering for us here in the States, where could i find an appropriate substitute for the Kaloam Cricket wicket loam because the product does not seem to be available here in south Florida in the U.S. Every turf type topper has peat, compost and alot of organics b
What soil would be used here in the US?
👏🏾 ok i get the idea now. Mark i am buikding a 3 metet round pound/pool well it will look like a pound but it will have a walk in entrace for those hot days for one to enter. I will also have a waterfall about the pound/pool which will bring water down into the pool and back out to the waterfall again. Looking at this video the eco wave sounds like the kid for me so can you give me some advice ? So i was going to make 3 large box's with one having the pump filtering the water into tye other two which then will swnd the water down onto the waterfall. Do i need a skimmer and do i need a bottom drain with this type of set up do you think ? Regards Sylvester
What a lot of working out to do. Well done 👍🏾
Hi Mark, could you recommend some waterlily varieties for a small container pond. The container is a round one 50cm in diameter
Well done girl, you tried and made it, better than most people will ever try. Great job.
Totally wastage of time. How KZread allowed to upload this type of useless videos. Gentleman first you've to understand about the basics of biology than record a informative video.
Great explaination, Your work looks great. keep the life.
What flow rate on the pump?
I didn't want a lot of goldfish in my pond but they are breeding like crazy. I'm considering getting a bluegill to help control the population.
Guys if have a pond just buy sodium bicarbonate. You can get it at pool stores. Its what the alkalinity booster is.
Did l miss the flow rates? Water is not free
is there anyway to use plants when you have koi? they eat everything
What are 4Ds ? I think I missed it .
Hi Mark, love your videos. Recently tested pond, everything fine apart from ph which is low at around 6. Pond is 4000 litres, filtered, aerated, trickle water feature. Sticklebacks happy, zooming about and nesting, but goldfish ( a few added a month ago) are hiding and really don't look happy. Lots of plants and I skim all the time to remove debris, but lots of blanketweed. Do I have a problem? Any non chemical solutions?
Hi Mark, can any of the filter boxes shown be used as bog filters rather than mechanical filters? Thanks.
Is it safe to plant flowers in a pond with a bottom drain?
My biggest concern iof foam s the effect on wildlife. Do they make spray foam that won't kill hummingbirds or make larger animals sick? That stuff can't be good for you.
Thank you so much
Another great video would it be a better option to use ceramic media or BHM in the waterfall
Thank you for the excellent video 👍🏼 subscribed. One question I’m about to set up 1000 litre preformed pond with a nice selection of goldfish & plants which, pressure filter would you recommend I’m thinking of the Hozelock Bioforce 6000 pressure filter would this filter be adequate, I would want the water to look clear. Thank you
Hey hope youre well, question about the Reedmace/Bullrush/Cat tail in the pond. Do you personally recommend planting them in containers for the spread or in the pond substrate or even planted further from pond a few feet, have a 5ft by 4ft pond and worried about spread