Spring Pond Maintenance Done Right

Most of us leave our ponds neglected over the winter, of course, but once warmer weather rolls around there is so much opportunity to bring the beauty back to our ponds. Doing certain maintenance tasks regularly can help prevent problems from arising throughout the pond season, and whether you do it yourself or hire a professional service, it is important to make sure the utmost care is given to your beautiful pond. Here are our tips for exemplary spring pond maintenance.

Over time, you may find that your pond pump starts to become slow, or may even completely stop doing its job. It can get tricky trying to fix a pump without compromising the quality of the water or health of your fish, but before immediately picking up the phone to call a professional, you can do a simple diagnosis on your own. Here is a checklist of items you can check out which might just be enough to solve your pond pump problems.

You put in so much effort into designing, planning and building your beautiful koi pond – and now all that’s left is to find some even more beautiful koi to populate your pond. But before you go out and splash the cash on the best koi money can buy, a word of caution. If you are new to raising koi, there is a learning curve involved and mistakes will be made. Hence, you don’t want to take all the risk at the start while you are still figuring things out. We advise you to start with koi which are lower priced, and also very resilient and hardy, so that they can weather through your experimental phases while you learn to become the best koi parent there is. Here are our suggestions for the perfect koi for your first pond.