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Big Fish, Little Fish

For many pond keepers, fish play an essential part of the pond experience. Although a variety of species can be kept in ornamental ponds, koi and goldfish remain very much the fish of choice. Because it can be rather expensive to buy adult fish, the vast majority of pond owners purchase juveniles.

 

Given time to grow, these coolwater fish become big in length and overall size. What was an understocked pond when the fish were young can become overstocked as the fish grow and the bioload increases.... Read full article »

NEWS

Most Lotus Growers Seek Beauty First  

About 53.5 percent of lotus growers (including hobbyists and businesses) reported beauty as the main reason they grow lotus, followed by 17.8 percent who grew for resale and profit (the exact number of growers that identified themselves as commercial lotus growers), 6.9 percent for water improvement, 5.9 percent each for religious uses and cut flowers, and 3 percent for a food source, according to AboutTheLotus.com’s first monthly “Nelumbo-holic Lotus Survey.”

Slightly more than half of the respondents were pond owners, with the others being commercial growers, hybridizers, garden center owners or something else. Overall, respondents preferred full-size (35.3 percent) and semi-dwarf (18.3 percent) lotus; were not particular about color (23.5 percent reported no preference, followed by 22.1 percent for red and 16.2 percent for white); and preferred single petal (44.4 percent) and multi-petal (peony) (30.2 percent) to other flower forms. «See All News» 

CALENDAR SPOTLIGHT

FEBRUARY 12-15, 2009
San Diego, Calif.
28th Annual Associated Koi Clubs of America Seminar and 22nd Annual Koi Club of San Diego Koi Show
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    ZContain This  
        Easy ways to contain water plants and house fish without a full water garden commitment.

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