Water Plants For Garden Pond

WATER PLANTS FOR GARDEN POND -- Water plants are an extremely essential part of any garden pond. They help achieve a balanced ecology by using up pond nutrients and provide a safe surface cover to pond creatures like fish.

Types of  Water Plants For Your Pond
Basically pond plants can be classified into four basic categories - oxygenators, floaters, Marginals and Deep Water Aquatics. Though not a necessity, it would be great to have all these four varieties in your pond as each variety is useful in its own way as we will see below:

Benefit Of Waterfall In Koi Ponds

KOI POND WATERFALL -- One benefit of having a garden waterfall or backyard waterfalls is they increase water molecules and bring more oxygen to the pond water, creating an ideal habitat for Japanese Koi fish. Stepped falls have more surface area and turbulence than straight falls. This increases the air and water interaction that allows oxygen to be dissolved. Creating a natural oxygenators for your pond.

Koi Pond Maintenance

KOI POND MAINTENANCE -- Keeping Koi does not just put koi into koi a pond and feed them. But we must aware about koi pond healthty with routine maintenance. Once you have a koi pond in operation it is necessary for you to perform routine maintenance tasks on a regular basis. Koi fish are very sensitive and changes in their ecosystem can lead to poor health or even death. Maintaining your koi pond regularly will help your fish thrive.

How To Build Overflow For Koi Pond

For Koi Ponds, It is necessary to have an overflow in the system to prevent the water level getting above the designed level. This is usually fitted in the last bay of the filter. Fig shows a system that was very popular a few years ago mainly because it is fully adjustable, and so you can set it as you wish.

The photo on the left shows a method that is often used by local koi-keepers.