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Produce => Ponds 'n' Stuff => Topic started by: Admin aka Dan on September 03, 2003, 23:47:44
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Maggie.
Here you are, play to your hearts content.
Glad you managed to register after your troubles. I'll take a look at the process, and see if we can make it easier.
Thanks and welcome !
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Thankyou very much.I am an"online" friend of Teresa as you may have guessed;it was she who told me of this board.Great to have this forum.I assure you it will be well used.Ponds and fish are the love of my life and I hope I can convert others,or at least help with the experience I have had over the years.Thanks again for granting my request so quickly.
Maggie.
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Hi Margaret
Well, you are going to be a busy bee with two boards of fish queries! Best of luck :)
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Thanks,suze.How come so many from the "other" site are here? I think it is going to be a much more friendly and easy to use board.I'm hooked already! Maggie
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I think there are about 10 or 12 of us - but don't neglect old Auntie, still want to keep that going!
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Hi Maggie,
That was quicker than the other side and no bickering I told you Aka Dan was good ;). I got my hand slapped by Aunti to day :( so not to happy with her I put this web site in full oh did she have a wobbley :o. I could mention any beeb site but no other all messages of mine will be checked from now on hey I did not even swear ;D Teresa
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Teresa
I have mentioned this site in full twice today in front of Auntie and no spanky spanky wrists for me! I notice ower rose bud is lurking in the shadows again :)
Wot's the matter rose - cat got your tongue!
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Hi Suzo,
you lucky devil, :P my hands are still stinging ouch. :o ha ha yo rose bud come out to play no hand smacks on this board ;D. Have you noticed they have wiped loads of messages out to get extra space half of the pond messages have gone. Teresa
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No, hadn't noticed, not having a pond (although I have a frog!) don't orfe-ten visit pondlife. Rose bud has now broken her vow of silence :)
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Ah Suze,
you have a frog and no pond for him to play in or bring girlfriends around :o shame on you. You dont have to have a big one but to see a damsel fly or a dragon fly now thats wildlife in the garden gives me a buzz everytime. Teresa
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Hi Teresa,
I am mad about ponds. I have two on my allotment. I have a web site dedicated to my ponds :) I have only had ponds for two seasons now and am totally hooked as you say the wonder of a dragonfly. I actually had a dragonfly hatch out on one of the pond plants, and took loads of photo's of it drying it's wings out. I have loads of frogs and I saw newts too, this year. To say nothing of my fish. Nice to have an expert on board as I always want to know and learn more about the pond.
At the moment I am watching about 20 baby goldfish, changing colour. Well, will be soon, as am off to the allotment for the morning.
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Hi, you have babies oh how great I would love a baby but time will tell. Whats your web page? we will have to start posting photos of our ponds/pools. It always amases me if you leave a bucket of water alone for a few weeks what insects find it wild life is wonderfull. Have a good morning on the lottie I am off this afternoon have to cut the marrow then its marrow whisky or rum ah well in twelve months will let all know how its turned out. :-X Teresa
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Hi teresa
Yes I have Mr. frog living in garden. Always puzzled me where he was situated, found out he lives down drain from gutter overflow! He is real cool and likes to sit in pot which houses clematis. We often sit in the garden together and share thoughts ..... I have lived here 20 years and always been a frog here, although whether same one - dunno how long they live.
Also have Parsley the toad (cos he lives in the parsley pot) and Jeremy (the hedgehog) so hardly any nasty slimey snailey sluggy damage!
Live near a river though - if that makes a difference ..
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Hi, Teresa,
I will try to put the link on here to my photo gallery and then you can see my babies. Caught Tinker Bell, yesterday, from the small pond as, I want to try and get them all into the big pond before winter comes. Had a magical day yesterday, watching them all :)
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Chloe's Photo's (http://chloesphotos.fotopic.net/show_collection.php?id=47504)
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I haven't done that right but it will take you there :o In the random album you will see my carrots and marrows, I have donated for our charity collection. I am quite proud of them :)
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Hi Chloe,great photo's, I can see I'm going to have to have some PC lessons.I've got some wonderful photo's of the ponds at Logan Botanical gardens,Stranraer,Scotland that I'd love to show yoy all,I'll have to0 get my kids to show me how !!!!
What is the proper name of that pond weed on your photo' (the curly one) ? I was given some for my pond by a neighbour but don't know what it is called.
Best wishes Ruth.
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Hi Chloe,nice to meet you.Enjoyed the photos.They have reminded me that i was given an underwater camera,more as a joke really,for xmas.I must get out there and take some photos while the pond is clear and the fish are still active.Any tips on how to line them up and say smile? Though with the number I've got there's a good chance i'll get at least one !
Hubby has threatened to get me a snorkel and flippers this year.I think he's joking.Love the site.We've had lots of visits already. Still playing about with all the icons and messages so goodness knows what will come out!
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Hi Chloe, the pictures are great will send some of mine to the pond board 8) if I can work it out, Saw the marrows and carrots also the waitrose bag you sure them from lottie :-/ha ha your right great fun watching them playing maggie is right underwater camera. I keep saying to hubby a vidio camera under water and a tv connected in the house you could see them it would be a extra channel when nothing else to watch :D he thinks I am mad Teresa
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If anyone has looked at my photo's of the babies. I would like to tell you how I got them. When I first dug a pond, in May, last year. I never intended to have fish, it was meant to be a wildlife pond. Being impatient and I know it's wrong to do so, a plotholder brought me some frog spawn from his pond at home. I watched with fascination as the spawn turned to taddies and I watched them grow into frogs. But all this watching, of the taddies, I would see this little black thing flashing about and on three occasions I would say to anyone who would listen, ' I am sure there is a fish in there'. Anyway to cut a long stor short and to get back to the babies. I watched this little black fish grow into a big black fish, who's name is Sunny and the love of my life :) My friend had a pond and her fish had babies so I took 3 of her babies to keep Sunny company. I lost tiny, then I lost Romeo but Tara survived out of the three. In April this year I decided to dig another pond, this one just for wildlife, no fish. On Good Friday, my friend phoned me and said would I like some plants from her pond as she was clearing it out and replacing them. I went galloping round there and put the plants, well most of them, into my new wildlife pond............. have you guessed yet???????? Her fish had spawned and lo and behold I ended up with the babies. So wildlife pond numebr 2 ended up with about 30 babies, which over the weeks I have transfered to my big pond. I don't know how many of them will survive, as it is a wildlife pond and I have boatmen in there, as I saw him earlier in the year and they have to survive all the other perils of life in a pond.
Sorry if I have gone on but do talk a lot about my pond :o
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Oh Chloe what a lovely story Teresa
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Hi Ruth, thank you for looking at my photo's.
The oxygenators are ceratophyllum and elodea, they both look a bit curly to me, so not sure which but I have more elodea.
If you go to that site that I have my photo's on you could do the same and start your own album and put a link on this site to it. It really is easy as I am not that good at doing things :)
Hi Maggie, Thank you. Yes, it's easy to get them to smile. You have to name them first then call, like this example, 'Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Mummies here :) He comes like a gooden and poses for me. Mind, sometimes I have to tickle under the fin. Well, you did ask ;D
If. your mad Terresa then I am too. What a great idea about the underwater video camera.
Thank you all for looking at my photo's. It made my day.