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May 7
It has been a very busy Spring for us with all the pond openings. Our fish shipment came in last week and looks great - Over 300 Japanese koi ranging in size from 4 - 12". For those who we are holding fish for, we expect them to be ready for pickup in about 10 days

We have just begun construction, another rebuild of a small pond
April 1 2012
The homeshow was fun and we chatted to a lot of people. Also saw a few of our competitors and reaffirmed that our pricing, product and knowledge is still number #1

The weather has turned cold again but we are well underway with our pond openings. We are also getting a lot of product shipments in and hope to be fully stocked by mid April, waterplants should be in shortly too

We have updated our main 2K gallon tank with a bakki shower. The improvement in water clarity is noticeable. We are now selling these units. We open 7 days a week starting tomorrow





March 8 2012
Was just checking in with a new client I had met last Spring. He called us in regards to wanting to rebuild his pond. After having it a few years, he had realized the problems and knew what he wanted to avoid. After a consult, liner delivery and many emails back and forth, he came up with a really good result. And lucky for him, he told me his Dad loves to dig and that he powered through the excavation quickly




March 2 2012
Unfortunately I have had reports of 3 mink attacks this Fall/Winter from clients - 2 individuals lost all of their fish which is very sad. Mink have become a real serious problem over the last 2-3 years. We have had a very good success rate with electric fences. We can set them up for you, or can advise you on how to set it up yourself. The cost for a typical pond is about $170 for the parts

The home show will be on in 2 weeks. As I tweeted, I do have a limited number of free tickets and they are going fast. Stop in the shop, make a purchase and a pair is yours if you ask. Think I have 6 left

We have had an unseasonably warm Winter - this is good news for the fish, however, Spring is still a very dangerous time and it is advisable to do a good water change and add some salt. See more info on our seasonal care page. Of course, we are available to open your pond if you like
February 1 2012
I will be presenting at the Willowdale Aquarium Society on Wednesday Feb 15, 7:30. The topic is pond construction, and I will be showing a video of a complete build of a 10 x 20 foot pond

Well, the website has finally gone live. I started this process on Oct 30th and it has taken at least 200 hrs. Suffice to say it is done...for now...we all know these things are never done. To fully take advantage of this site [the web in general], you should not be using Internet Explorer [IE] as you browser. It is a nightmare to code for and does not support the rich experience offered by firefox, google chrome and opera. These browsers are free, take 5 minutes to install and are vastly superior security wise and feature wise

I'm off to Grenada for 8 days. Should be a fun getaway. Taking my underwater camera and will get some video of some saltwater fish
January 23 2012
The sale went great and I thank those who showed up. It was nice to talk fish and ponds in the off season

The new website is in the final stages. Working on more videos now. Most of the layout and writing are complete and I'm really happy with the new look and over haul of many of the pages
January 7 2012
Working frantically on the new website. It is really coming together but is taking a lot of work. Will be uploading a lot more video which I think is helpful. Revamping every page, updating information, chopping out a lot of superfluous verbiage as well

Also getting ramped up for our sale, it happens next weekend - 20% off everything both Sat. & Sun. 11 - 4

A client called and almost lost some fish because his air stopped - he has some nice big kohaku. Luckily he had a venturi and they came back, even though they were on the surface floating. This is strange - usually once they reach a certain point they don't come back...glad they did

December 2 2011
Almost finished the season, a greenhouse to put up on Monday and maybe a couple of other odds and ends and the year is done. Hard to believe, but some welcome relief

Went down to Ray Abel's in mid November, disappointed at the abbreviated harvesting but it was still awesome seeing some high end fish. I met up with Darren of Natures Touch Ponds in Washington and we drove down together from there
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