Re: [GSAS-Member] water gardens?

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

I think EVERYBODY should send in a photo of their pond or water garden - kind 
of an
end-of-summer thing (the newsletter comes out at the end of this month so act 
quickly).

Clay- I've got a bunch of koi that range up to 3 inches, and then a few 
oddballs up to
twenty inches.



--- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:

> I really really would love to see what others have done. I want to put a
> largish (bigger than anything else I have right now) above-ground water
> garden in where I can do some of the larger hardy waterlilies.  I'm
> thinking something built out of 6 x 6" timbers. Rectangular.
> 
> I'll send Steev a photo of one of my current water gardens taken back at
> my old house about 3 years ago. Back then it was mostly parrot feather
> (not the red-stemmed kind) and duckweed. And breeding goldfish. In the
> photo, you can kinda see one of the orange goldfish but I really was
> taking a picture of Barr (my Siberian). I got the black half-barrel at
> DeYoung's in Woodinville about 10 years ago....wish I'd gotten MORE than
> the 3 I bought at the time.
> 
> Betty Goetz
> 
> > I think a presentation on outdoor ponds would be a fantastic topic.
> >
> > Clay
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steev Ward [mailto:steevward@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:04 PM
> > To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
> > Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] water gardens?
> >
> > Traditionally our club has always included outdoor interests as well,
> > and there are certainly people who keep outdoor aquariums in addition to
> > water gardens and ponds. I can't really draw a line between my outdoor
> > and indoor aquatic lfe - it goes back and forth too much. I've got koi
> > babies indoors in a 55 gallon, a 75 gallon, and outdoors as well. The
> > weather loach goes outside for the summer, and so do a few water plants
> > and daphnia.
> >
> >
> > Steev
> > P.S. If anybody is interested in some koi let me know.
> >
 



       
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