We're still waiting for the light fixtures for the roof as well as the fiberglass pots. I did fill the pond though and caught most of the fish - a bazillion guppies mainly - and transplanted some waterlilies. I have a problem with spiral snails, they are death on the pumps and their eggs are so small that they get through the netting I have around the pump. So, I removed all the dirt from the lilies and soaked them for a couple days in a copper sulfate solution to try and kill as many snails and eggs as i could. It's not good for fish at that concentration so it was a one time shot.
These are local tropical waterlilies, the pink is a NOID, the blue/white is Dauben, and the copper leafed one is a pink night bloomer. The copper didn't faze them, they kept right on blooming.
I have a plastic bucket in the waterfall right now because I was checking different ways to have the water fall. I like this sheeting style and that means I need to go to one of the many plastic stores here and find something that will sit over the pipe coming in and direct the water back down into the basin. Then I can add some filter material and perhaps a plant.
I wish the pond would stay this clean but I know it won't. Algae will grow on the sides and turn it dark green, black. It's pretty easy to clean though, it's a good height and easy to reach all parts of it. That's my tumbling composter in the background, I put the old lily dirt in it along with a lot of shredded newspaper and some brown leaves. I was going to say dry leaves but nothing is dry around here right now. It has rained every night for most of the night and on and off in the daytime as well. We are under a tropical storm watch for one that is brewing in the Gulf. It was supposed to pass over us today but they say it is moving very slow. We've had a lot of rain from it, and the humidity is high although the temps are cool. All the wooden doors in the house are sticking and the walls feel damp if you touch them. We can't get the roof walls painted until everything dries out which should be in about a month. I hope. Last winter was weird and it rained at least once a week through the whole "dry" season.
