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Frequently Asked Questions about Water
Gardening:
Question: Can I leave the fish in
the pond during the winter?
Answer: Yes, as long
as you have a small circulating pump and/or pond heater. That is all you need
to keep a
“breathing hole” in the ice and oxygenate the water for your fish.
Question: Are water gardens
breeding grounds for mosquitoes?
Answer: Mosquitoes
breed in still, standing water. A well-designed water garden has moving water,
in which
mosquitoes do not like to breed. In addition to this, if you have fish, they eat
the mosquito larvae.
Question: Does water gardening
involve a lot of hard work and maintenance?
Answer: Not
necessarily. An ecologically-balanced pond is about as much work as maintaining
an established perennial border, minus the weeding and watering. Aquatic plants
water themselves.
A five-minute monthly cleaning of the filter and an occasionally addition of
some beneficial bacteria,
along with an annual spring clean-out are all that you’ll need to worry
about.
Question: Is maintaining a water
garden a constant headache?
Answer:
Ecologically-balanced water gardens lets Mother Nature do the heavy lifting.
Make sure your
water garden works with Mother Nature, not against her. Include a mechanical
and biological filtration,
lots of aquatic plants, fish, active bacteria, and plenty of rocks, all creates
an enjoyable water garden
experience and minimal work for you.
Question: Don’t ponds need daily
water testing and corrective treatment?
Answer: A pond is not
like a pool. If the pond is not chemically dependent, there is nothing to test
for.
Mother Nature never tests her water, and she doesn’t use any store bought
chemicals or pharmaceuticals, &
neither should you.
Question: Is it okay to have algae
in the pond?
Answer: Green algae,
in proper proportion, is beneficial for pond life. Fish eat it, balancing the
various aspects of pond life creating a living & healthy pond. Too much
algae has two simple causes: too much accessible nutrition and too much
sunlight. That is why a well-designed pond includes plenty of aquatic plants to
compete for the available
nutrition and the proper amount of fish.
Please consider going on our Parade of Ponds tour. You will meet other
homeowners who have all different types of water gardens. They can answer many
of the questions you have as well as speak from experience.
We have 3 water gardens at our location on
32
Miry Brook Road - Danbury, CT 06810
Danbury Airport South
Tel: (203) 790-6700
Fax: (203) 744-0611
Toll Free: (877) 421-0669
For Press, Marketing & Website Inquiries, please
email: Cooper's (Cooper Mulch)
We are a
distributor of Aquascape Designs & a dealer of Nursery Pro pond products.
