what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you on a
Sunday baby how's everybody doing I hope you're doing well
so last week I got a little woowoo Wikia talking about the back to nature video
now we need to get back to nature thanks for the love on that video had a good
time making that get that off my chest today I want to show you guys my new
slice of nature here in the backyard got a bunch of nice garden pond koi pond
tips for you today but it's Sunday it's specie Sunday I've got all kinds of
plans in here to show you as well but first I want to start and I want to take
a step back and kind of talk about some of the things that have gone right in
this garden pond the first thing is everyone's very critical about it being
a rock tin cons I love the fact that it's rockin I think it looks fabulous
and also the beneficial bacteria growing on this rock is doing us some good I
know a lot of like pure koi keepers would prefer to have a entirely blind
bottom or just like a black line or bottom not the case here I like the way
it looks rock and when I do the next addition down here I'm going to rock it
in as well it's going to be significantly deeper but that's another
story in another project a couple of things that have been going on this
summer that I want to make you guys aware that I'm going to give you a tour
around the pond my original design for this is to be in Folsom this is full
freaking sunlight there is no shade and it was something I was a little bit
concerned about because I was worried about high temperatures the pond is is
overly deep but some of the things I'm doing to reduce temps are as follows
I've got a heavy plant load in here I would like to lilies to have gotten a
little bit bigger but it is what it is but one of the things I've done and I've
ran basically all summer is I've run an airstone
see the inner stone right here that gives me a lot more oxygen when I when
temperatures rise oxygen levels decrease so I have that concerned about temps in
here it has gotten to about 80 degrees with some of the hot streets we've been
having the air stone helps and makes me feel better the fish seem to like it the
other thing I want to point out people always come to me and ask us and I got
problems with algae in my pond this lesson can be applied to your aquariums
as well when you're dealing with algae you want to have a lot of plants that
can simply out-compete the algae I talked about this a couple of weeks back
with the aerial advantage this holds especially true in a garden pond the
more plants you have the more nitrogen they're removing and the less ultimate
food there is for the algae and they're going to starve them out okay so I've
got a lot of plants growing above the water again plants that grow above the
water have all a full sunlight they can handle and they have all the readily
available nutrients from the water they can pull so they can grow real hard well
this was a risk for me because I wanted to run it in full Sun but I knew the
full Sun would give me a tremendous plant growth and pull all that nutrients
out of the water that's why I have such clear water here I've also got good
aeration I've got a nice big waterfall behind me that's getting it rolling but
it's Sunday it's species Sunday I want to show you guys around some of the
plants here particularly one of the plants that's actually taller than me
we're going to get to that one in a second I've got some imperial Toros
behind me I'm loving these these will not survive the winter I'm going to have
to pull them in this is a parrots feather right here I recommend this for
any pond even if you're just doing like a little Bowl in your backyard put some
bears feather in there grows like crazy this will survive the winter I've got
some candies here that should survive the winter I've got some other cannons
over there but I want to show you this plant right here actually before I get
to the big boy I want to show you this I've got over here
this is lobelia cardinalis and then this is some type of a mallow the lobelia
cardinalis will survive I'm not sure what this is but the mallow probably
will not but check this out this is where it gets fun this is a red stem
Valley I'm six what okay look at this plant alright
just plan is so legit when I got it you can see the old clip here when I got it
it was like this big and had like one little weak thing alright so this plant
has taken off tremendously I'm really excited about it red stem salia this is
the first draft Kappa so I don't have detailed knowledge I can tell you God
here the problem is it's probably not going to survive the winter
so I'm going to have to take this out of here don't worry when we put another one
back this is one of the umbrella palms this is the taller variety and I think
I've got the shorter variety down there this also is not going to survive the
winter but I'm good with that this plant is not exactly going to make it in the
winter that's okay the umbrella foam I'm going to take them down I'm actually
going to bring some of these aquatic experiences do it above the rim tag some
other plants that are not going to survive the winter are the water
hyacinth which is invasive in a number of states and then I've got the water
lettuce also these particular plants are your workhorse plants I have been to
Peru I've seen how the highest and grows like crazy tremendously in the Amazon
they grow they multiply my man Brandon behind the camera I hope you can catch
this right here we got this flower going so I'm absolutely loving them another
species to show you about I've got the rush right here this is a type of rust
this over here is the horse tail rush now I will tell you this is an
alteration in the design my original design was to have all this rush back
here come up and make like a big fence well d'italia took Haughton it is what
it is I love the red stem I love looking at it from my kitchen but I originally
wanted this to go this stuff's growing just not as fast as that I also want to
point out the red mallow all these are now going to survive the winter they're
going to go into the greenhouse and then these are some of my personal favorites
right here the Taro's over there I showed you the Imperial this is the
black magic taro and this is the mojito and this is another type of mallow for
some reason this mallow is not done not flowering nearly as well as ever so
here's the problem here's the rub this this pond right here has an oversized
fish load in it okay there's simply a lot of fish in it I got a koi problem if
you could see the fish in there there's too many fish in here what am I going to
do this winter I'm going to leave the quarter here the problem is that in the
winter time I'm not going to have all of this nitrogen nitrate removal from the
plants working for me okay so I got to not feed the koi in the winter and I'm
not going to have all these plants so I am concerned that comes spring time I'm
not going to have this heavy plant load working for me so that's something that
I am mildly concerned about going into it because I'm going to have to remove
all these plants out of here that aren't going to make it in the winter time and
roll like that and some more species for you I got this is the ng variety from my
supplier down to Florida named after her awesome looking not hearty Lily sadly it
will not survive the winter but named after my girl hands love you Angie and
we got this little white when you're not exactly sure what type of nymphaea
that is but that is a hardy Lily that is I believe is going to survive the winter
but last and certainly not least you know all of the creamy and all of the
wu-tang how about random right here that's right this is a variety of Krenim
growing up out of the top of the water thrilled to have some Krenim in the pond
green babe you know how so that's what's up and then your Boise
just sit right here like this in the morning
drinks his coffee sitting here he just fish puts the kids to bed come out be
the fish if I told you how many hours I spent sitting here you would I be
disgusted so that's what's up drop me a comment on what you want to know about
some plants in this drop me a comment on what you think of this time if you like
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