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Pukin's Pond Pics (Part 3 of the saga of Pukin Dog's Koi Pond)
Pukin Dog
Posted on 12/30/2004 9:15:47 AM PST by Pukin Dog
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To: Pukin Dog
That plant you can't Identify looks like "DOLLAR WEED" a noxious and fast spreading plant. Pull up every piece of it! Don't leave so much as a tiny piece of root, as it will sprout anew from pieces as small as 1/8"! My yard is infested and i have spent hundreds of dollars and hours trying to defeat it. My neighbors yards are infested and they have given up. It will kill your grass and choke out every other plant.......if in fact that's what it is......
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:04:10 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
To: Red Badger
Oh, and BTW, great pond! We have one too and worry about Blue Herons also. A man here lost a bunch of Koi a couple of years ago to them. I think he used a garden net streched across the pond, almost invisible. We have lost a few fish to CATS in the neighborhood.........
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:08:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
To: Pukin Dog
Koi=Carp=Yum
Muttly wholeheartedly encourage your wonderful hobby.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:12:13 AM PST
by
PoorMuttly
("The sword is not the cause of murder, and there is no sin upon him who made it.")
To: Tax-chick
"A blue heron ate my friend's koi"
Typical Marxist-Democrat. A Conservative heron would have earned their own.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:13:05 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(REMEMBER THE ALGOREAMO--relentlessly hammer on the TRUTH, like the Dems demand recounts)
To: Pukin Dog
Great hobby - and great job at creating the pond.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:19:08 AM PST
by
TruthNtegrity
(I'd be working in the Intel community if Clinton hadn't killed the clearance process. RIP OSIS/OBU.)
To: Pukin Dog
Beautiful pictures! I also have a pond but only one Koi. The rest are goldfish. It's a wonderful hobby. I'm a member of JB's Pond Chat and you are welcome to check it out. If interested, let me know. Here are a couple of my pictures:
![](http://photos.imageevent.com/shegen/sherriespictures/watergarden/websize/MVC-675F.JPG)
![](http://photos.imageevent.com/shegen/sherriespictures/watergarden/websize/lilies.JPG)
I have a webpage with more here:
Sherrie's Pond & Watergarden
This is the kind of sensitive crap that retired Tomcat pilots do on their days off. Don't go readin' anything 'gay' into it. Its only a hobby.
LOL, no way. There are a lot of he-man types that are into watergardens and fish ponds. It's a wonderful hobby no matter who you are!
To: Blurblogger
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:20:57 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.)
To: Pukin Dog
Pukin, that plant you can't identify is habuscus frantila. It is incredibly rare and worth a fortune in the Korean black market. I recommend you sprinkle a little Miracle Grow on it, and let it spread throughout your garden.
But then again. I could be wrong.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:21:06 AM PST
by
Rokke
To: Pukin Dog
Pukin Dog, the plant you can't identify is Pennywort. It is very invasive but I grow it in my filter. My filter is 100 gallons and the top is open. I put Pennywort, Aquatic Mint, Parrots Feather and Hyacinths in the top to add veggie filtration to the filtered water before it goes into the stream.
To: Pukin Dog
I have has a pond for several years. I started with a small, preformed hardshell pond of about 150 gallons. My latest is about 700 gallons with 15 Koi, Comets and a High Fin Shark (bottom feeding carp).
Pond...
![](http://images.snapfish.com/342765%3B923232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E2325%3D%3B2%3C%3D%3B26%3DXROQDF%3E2323734%3C33%3B%3C7ot1lsi)
Koi...
![](http://images.snapfish.com/342765%3B923232%7Ffp7%3Enu%3D3234%3E%3A3%3B%3E%3A35%3EWSNRCG%3D3232825%3B38%3C94nu0mrj)
I lost 6 Koi to Great Egrets, so I took drastic measures. My first step didn't work out so well...
![](http://images.snapfish.com/342765%3B923232%7Ffp7%3Enu%3D3234%3E%3A3%3B%3E%3A35%3EWSNRCG%3D3232825%3B43%3B27nu0mrj)
So I kicked it up a notch...
![](http://images.snapfish.com/342765%3B923232%7Ffp7%3Enu%3D3234%3E%3A3%3B%3E%3A35%3EWSNRCG%3D3232825%3B3%3B%3C79nu0mrj)
Actually, through landscaping and placement of some rocks, I denied the Koi eating b*st*rds a place to "fish" from. They have yet to wade in to take the Koi.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:24:17 AM PST
by
socal_parrot
(Go Blue!!! Beat Texas!!!)
To: Pukin Dog
This is one of the two Scarecrows installed at my pond, which protect my fish from Herons, Racoons and other animals that might want to make a meal of my fish.
That is so corney, you might not be a gay guy but I'll bet you the person who talked you into buying that thing was..........
With all the free time you have, can't you just hide in the weeds with a shotgun?
All kidding aside, I bought my brother-in-law an artificial heron for his pond and it worked. he was losing his koi to a heron that actually would land on the roof of his shed before dropping down into the pond....
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:28:00 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Michigan's last great flock of penguins left for the west coast in 1823 never to be heard from again)
To: Pukin Dog
Did you install a tsunami warning system in case of an earthquake? : )
How do you control mosquitoes from using it as a breeding ground?
Living on the Bay in the PNW we would be over run by the little suckers. It is bad enough at dusk and dawn getting bombed when walking. Hence we don't come out that time of day.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:28:33 AM PST
by
oceanperch
(2005 is going to be an Awesome Year, IMO)
To: sticker
"Do you have enough open water to find out if koi will take a dry fly?"
Try a black ant, hook size 14 or 16. Koi are good fighters with lots of powerful runs. 'Fought one six pounder for a good 20 minutes before landing it.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:29:08 AM PST
by
TexanToTheCore
(Rock the pews, Baby!)
To: Pukin Dog
If you were a real man, you would install a live webcam. ;-)
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:30:36 AM PST
by
Pylon
(R)
To: Pukin Dog
Hey! Scarecrows are great! Our original pvc pond form developed a crack, so we got rid of that and now use black rubber sheeting. Our Koi will come up and eat out of our hands. The sound of water helps make it seem cooler during our 104 degree Sacramento afternoons.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:32:28 AM PST
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: socal_parrot
![](http://rikkor.home.comcast.net/backyard.jpg)
![](http://rikkor.home.comcast.net/backyard110303.jpg)
Mine.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:33:39 AM PST
by
Pusterfuss
(You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. LBJ)
To: Hu Gadarn
Welcome to fr from another confirmed fisherman.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:39:49 AM PST
by
keysguy
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: Melinda in TN
Is that Tom Dashhole's new home in the background there?
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:41:40 AM PST
by
keysguy
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: Pusterfuss
Very cool. I like the snow shot.
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posted on
12/30/2004 10:43:37 AM PST
by
socal_parrot
(Go Blue!!! Beat Texas!!!)
To: keysguy
:-) My daughter was going to get rid of my granddaughter's playhouse so I confiscated it for a pond tool shed.
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