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Setup and Care of Garden Ponds
This functional book contains information on creating, stocking, and maintaining garden ponds of all sizes, and offers advice on issues like pond and plant maintenance, species selection, and health care. Useful tip boxes in each chapter show every member of the household how to make the most out of setting up a garden pond.
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Setup and Care of Garden Ponds
This functional book contains information on creating, stocking, and maintaining garden ponds of all sizes, and offers advice on issues like pond and plant maintenance, species selection, and health care. Useful tip boxes in each chapter show every member of the household how to make the most out of setting up a garden pond.
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Setup and Care of Garden Ponds

Setup and Care of Garden Ponds

by Terry Anne Barber
Setup and Care of Garden Ponds
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Setup and Care of Garden Ponds

Setup and Care of Garden Ponds

by Terry Anne Barber

Overview

This functional book contains information on creating, stocking, and maintaining garden ponds of all sizes, and offers advice on issues like pond and plant maintenance, species selection, and health care. Useful tip boxes in each chapter show every member of the household how to make the most out of setting up a garden pond.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780793847945
Publisher: TFH Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 08/01/2007
Series: Animal Planet Pet Care Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Terry Anne Barber has been keeping fish since childhood and has spent years dedicated to studying-and loving-all aspects of growing aquatic plants in the aquarium and small ponds. The author of several fish- and pond-related books, she is dedicated to helping support and advance the aquarium and pond hobbies for beginners and experts alike.

Table of Contents


Why Do You Want a Garden Pond?     5
A Part of History
Ponds are Beautiful
Soothing Sounds
Safety Concerns
Relax!
Ponds Great and Small     13
Container Gardens
Small Ponds
Building a Liner Pond
Choosing and Planting Plants For Your Pond     29
Invasive and Banned!
Submerged Plants
Floating Plants
The Lily and the Lotus
Marginal Plants
Choosing Animals For Your Pond     7
Goldfish
Koi
The Rosy Red Minnow
Catfish
Mosquitofish
Tropical Fish
Animals That Move Right In
Keeping Your Pond Water Healthy     71
Change the Water
The Nitrogen Cycle
How to Cycle Your New Pond
Filters For Your Pond
Clean Up
Keeping Your Pond Plants and Animals Healthy     83
Plant Problems and How to Fix Them
Fish Problems and How to Fix Them
Fun and Care For Every Season     93
Join a Pond Club
Have a Party
Take a Swim
Feed the Fish
The Four Seasons
Resources     106
Index     107
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