WhatPond made some changes over the winter, mainly the website new looks and the shopping cart is new. This has been almost a 4 month project building the shopping cart out and removing the old shopping cart. I am still working on removing and upgrading products to the new cart...
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Floating Pond Plants
Water meal is actually a small plant that can be a 1/64 of an inch up to 1/16 of and inch. If you suspect you may have Water meal pick some up out of the pond and rub between your fingers, it will feel rough.
Pond Weed
When we start to manage our first problem plant or weed and started to get it under control, the new open space (open water) allowed a new problem to come into our almost perfect pond.
Herbicide Treatments
As the title eludes to more a plural word, more than one, more on that in a little bit Then again why would we use a pesticide or herbicide in our ponds?
Pond Wildlife
The calendar says spring has been here but the snow on the ground and cold temperatures says different. The snow is melting in what sun we do get and the above freezing temperatures at times helps as well.
Overgrown Pond Project
Ponds are a great way to relax by, fish and observe the wildlife the pond attracts. But we need to remember that ponds and lakes are always trying to return to what they once were.
Recent Posts
Pond Aeration Compressors
This quick article is more like a review of the different compressors I’ve used and or rebuilt over the years. I’ll cover the Linear diaphragm, piston and rotary vane compressors. I get questions like, “how long will they last” How much cost to run them and how noisy are they....
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Why Ponds Go Bad
I guess we should start with why they go bad and what bad really means. Once your pond is finished and filled up its goal is to fill back in and become a swamp or grassy meadow once again. Many circumstances are involved in this process. From uses of the...
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