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Sparkling Backyard Garden Koi Ponds
Sparkling backyard garden koi ponds are one of nature's most beautiful treats. Get the information you need to build and maintain your very own pond.

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Check here for the latest information needed to build and maintain your sparkling backyard garden koi pond.

Building a Koi Pond
Building a koi pond requires careful planning before you ever start digging. Check out these koi pond building tips before you start.

Pond Pumps
Your pond pumps can be compared to the heart in the human body. Selecting the right pond pump is critical to maintaining a healthy sparkling pond.

Pond Filters
If your pond pump is the heart of your pond, your pond filters are like the lungs, filtering the impurities out. Getting pond filtration right is critical.

Pond Aeration
Koi pond aeration is the most important thing you can add to ensure the health of your pond. Aeration for koi ponds puts oxygen back into the water.

Backyard Waterfalls
There is little that compares with sitting outside by your pond and listening to the sound of rushing water coming from your backyard waterfalls.

Pond Plants
Pond plants are a natural addition for a healthy pond. There are several categories of plants that you could add to your pond.

Pond Algae
Pond Algae may seem unsightly in your pond, but some forms of algae in fish ponds are actually beneficial and a sign of good pond health.

Pond Fish
Creating a koi fish pond can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life.

Koi Pond Care
Koi Pond Care starts with a few basic activities that when done regularly will guarantee a sparkling backyard garden koi pond.

Maintaining Pond Health - Seasonal Pond Care Guide
Each season brings new challenges to maintaining pond health - from fluctuating temperatures to algae blooms to leaves falling on the surface.

Pond pH level
Water pond pH level determines whether your pond fish and pond plants will thrive.

Pond Water Quality: Troubleshooting pond water quality problems
Maintaining optimum pond water quality is important in reducing disease in your koi fish.

Pond Liner Repair
Pond liner repair may be necessary if you find that your pond is not holding water. However, finding the leak may be tricky.

Pond Cleaning
Pond cleaning and its importance is hotly debated. Some people drain and clean their pond once a year. Others claim that you should not do it at all.

Pond Skimmers
Pond skimmers are an easy and effective way to trap large debris to keep it from settling in the bottom of your pond.

A Brief Koi History
Although the exact location or origin of the koi fish is unknown, it is a fact in koi history that the koi fish are descendants of the common carp fish.

Koi Breeding and Spawning in Your Backyard Pond
The first step to successful koi breeding and koi spawning is to maintain a healthy pond and offer proper nutrition for your koi fish.

Identify Different Koi Varieties
Identifying the different koi varieties can sometimes be difficult if you are unsure of what to look for in the characteristics of different types of koi.

Choosing Quality Koi Food and the Importance of Koi Nutrition
Proper koi food is essential to the health of your koi and can enhance their colors.

Identifying Koi Fish Diseases in Your Pond
Koi fish diseases can begin with organisms that exist in your pond water and the overall pond environment. Although koi fish are hardy they can still get sick if the pond ecosystem is not balanced.

Common types of algae found in your backyard pond
There are many different types of algae that live off the nutrients that are supplied by your pond's ecosystem.

Pond Algae Control That Will Not Kill Your Other Pond Plants
When considering a method of pond algae control for your backyard pond it is important to treat the cause of the problem instead of using a quick fix that might harm your plants or fish.

Algae Control with Barley Straw
Barley straw is suggested as a natural alternative to control algae.

Why Algae Treatment May Be Hazardous to Your Pond's Life
Algae treatment is hazardous to your pond's natural ecosystem and many algae treatments contain chemicals that are detrimental to your pond ecosystem.

How your pond ecosystem works to keep your pond water quality healthy
Next to careful attention to food choices and the health of koi fish, your pond ecosystem is the most important part of keeping your koi fish healthy.

Water plants suitable for koi ponds
Choosing water plants for your koi pond can be a challenge due to the fact that koi fish have large appetites and will eat all of your pond water plants if you don't plan properly.

Floating Pond Plants
Two types of floating pond plants: those with roots in the soil and leaves floating such as water lilies, and plants like water lettuce whose roots also float.

Marginal Plants
Marginal plants are those that do well around the margins of your pond. They like to have their heads waving in the breeze, and their roots in shallow water.

Bog Plants
Bog plants grow best around your pond's borders where splashing water helps keep the ground moist. These bog plants help camouflage the edges of your pond.

Submerged Oxygenating Plants
Submerged oxygenating plants grow submerged beneath the pond’s surface. They do not bloom and are rarely seen, but they are important to a balanced healthy backyard pond.

Edible Plants for Your Koi Fish Pond
Edible plants for your Koi Fish Pond are not really hard to find. Almost any aquatic plant will be safe for your koi to munch on.

Koi Pond Plants
Koi pond plants are important in helping maintain a healthy balance in your koi pond.

Water Lily
The beautiful water lily is the most popular pond plant. These plants are the main reason most gardeners decide to create a water garden pond.

Garden Pond Landscaping
Planning your garden pond landscaping is an important consideration when designing your backyard pond.

Garden Bridges
Garden bridges are more than just a way to cross the water in your backyard pond. Your bridge can become a beautiful focal point of your backyard landscape.

Pond Plant Containers
Pond plant containers are used for planting your pond plants in. Using plant containers is great, because if you decide you want to move the plant, you can.

Pond Weeds
Pond weeds also known as invasive plants are capable of clogging up ponds and waterways. The spread of some of these plants have clogged up water ways in warmer climates resulting in these plants being prohibited in many states.

Pond Plant Fertilizer
Feeding pond plant fertilizer to your pond plants will help them thrive. This handy guide will help you determine which pond plants should be fertilized.

Pond Insects
Where there is water, there are pond insects. Everything from spiders to mosquitoes to dragon flies. Many insects are fun to watch and are just part of maintaining a healthy pond.

Pond Snail
A pond snail does an important job in every backyard garden pond. Water snails will not eat any decorative plants in your pond, and will not leave the pond to munch on your garden plants.

Pond Turtle
A well-designed pond that fits into your landscape will eventually attract wildlife. A pond turtle may decide to make your pond their new home.

Designing a Garden Pond Waterfall
Although a pond alone is a beautiful addition to your landscape, eventually most people want to add moving water by designing a garden pond waterfall.

How to Build a Waterfall
Are you wondering how to build a waterfall? Building a waterfall poses some unique design challenges. The number one concern is waterproofing.

Build Your Own Pond Filter
If you decide to build your own pond filter, there are several designs that you can use, depending on the size of the pond and the amount of filtration needed.

Pond Volume Calculator
This handy pond volume calculator can help you calculate the volume of water in your pond.

Pond Excavation and Leveling
First step in building your pond is the pond excavation and leveling. Getting this right is key to the project's success.

Preformed Garden Ponds
Preformed Garden ponds can be a good option for a small space, however preformed ponds are somewhat limited in size. The main advantage to a preformed pond is that you can quickly have a nice pond in your backyard.

Pond Liners
Flexible rubber pond liners are generally easier for the do-it-yourself pond builder when building a pond.

Pond Liner Calculator
This pond liner calculator will help you determine the size of pond liner you will need.

Garden Pond Ideas
There are many garden pond ideas that you could pick from. When working on your garden pond designs during your garden pond planning, think about how the pond will fit within your overall backyard landscape.

Partially Above Ground Pond
This partially above ground pond is surrounding by a rock wall and has a waterfall.

Above-ground Koi Pond
Picture of an above-ground koi pond with a viewing window for the fish.

Pond Plumbing
When designing your pond, consider what kind of pump you will use and plan the pond plumbing accordingly.

Pond Safety
An important consideration when building your pond is the pond safety of the people who will enjoy it.

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