How to Enhance Your Dock or Landscape
Searching for ideas to beautify your dock and enhance landscaping along the shoreline of your lake home? Consider water lilies or a floating island. Lilies are available in spectacular colors. ...
Archive for June, 2011
In Spring and Summer Ponds Develop A Thermocline
During spring and summer months, ponds develop a thermocline. The thermocline occurs at varying depths where there is a rapid change in temperatures between the surface and bottom zones. As ...
The Spread of Lily Pads
If left unmanaged, lily pads can spread rapidly and limit use of your pond. They reproduce by horizontal tubers that run through pond mud, usually in water less than three ...
A Fish Can Breathe Out Of Water For A Short Time
A fish can breathe out of water about as long as you can hold your breath. Carefully handle catches, especially during summer months. When releasing a fish, hold it in th ...
Are You Considering Stocking Fish?
Are you considering stocking fish? Schedule now to maximize growth in the current season. By July, waters temps in many regions also heat to levels that can stress young fry ...
Water Quality Issues May Develop As Temperatures Rise
Water quality issues may develop as pond temperatures rise. Reduce risks by insuring fish consume all pellets at each feeding period. Uneaten food consumes valuable oxygen as it decomposes. If yo ...