Pallas Athena,
Sorry, can't talk to you yet...no good pond pics!!! :nono:
The plant in the fountain is a creeping jenny,
lysimachia munnularia. The kind they sell in the regular garden store is exactly the same kind they sell in the pond shops, for about half the money. It was in a 2" pot, and maybe 4" long when I got it, and now it is trailing down into the water, and coming back up again! It is a perennial when out in the dirt, and does a GREAT job planted next to a pond, where it trails down into the water and hides odd edges or plumbing. I don't know if this one will make it, since it is barely in the water, and may freeze solid this winter, but I will take some cuttings and keep them in a jar on the window sill til spring, and have new ones for next year just in case.
I may get shot for this by other pond people, but when I first joined this forum, I had just left a healthy happy pond, with no special filtration, never added chemicals, never tested water, fish plopped in about thirty seconds after the pond was full...and everything did just fine. That pond was up and running for 4 years before we moved, fishies had babies, plants flourished, never had a problem, except with racoons, and a test kit won't help there
. I asked if I needed all that stuff, and water changes, gravel vaccing, etc that I had been reading about here, and was pretty much told you don't really do all that stuff in a pond. That being said, and being only from my own experience, I think your fishies will be fine. They have alot more water to trash now, and if you get plants in there pronto they will do an amazing job of helping to keep your water in good shape, too.
I love my shubbies, too! I had actually planned on plain pond comets and sarassas, but fell in love with them when I went to the LFS! And now I have a whole herd of little polka dotted fishies!
Jen
Sheesh!! What would this post look like if I WAS talking to you?!
