PONDGURU - Our fish pond

http://www.pondguru.co.uk Brief video of our fish pond. It was built 7 years ago and has become a wildlife haven. With terrapins.

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[gourami21]

Do you own any aquariums ??

[pondguru]

Only all the ones in the shop, none at home.

[12Achilleas]

that pond where there from before or you make it it's saw nice

[pondguru]

We put it in. There used to be an overgrown wood there.

[SealDogification]

awesome pond do you have sturgeons in it i think you should get some

[pondguru]

One or two. Unless some people have chucked more in. I do give open invitation for people to put unwanted fish in so sometimes when I'm feeding them, I look in and say "where the hell did that come from?"

[gourami21]

Shame i can only imagine what you could do with a large aquarium :) amazing pond btw

[blownable]

No wonder they didn't go on street protests against North Korea and Iran

[pondguru]

Nuclear missiles would be no good as according to scientists rats and cockroaches would be the only survivors after nuclear holocaust.

[blownable]

I've never tried shooting rats. They're size means they're fairly hard to hit even at point blank range. I just use more natual methods. Like mousetraps, pesticides, and nuclear missiles

[pondguru]

They used to come up from the river when I was feeding ducks quite heavily on the pond. I ended up trapping them or shooting them all. When they get shot with the .17HMR you realise that there's not much holding a rat together.

[blownable]

What are rats doing in your pond?

[pondguru]

Nah, its actually not too bad. There will be much more risk from a public swimming pool of picking up infections and diseases. Only thing you have to watch for in ponds really is Weil's disease carried by rats which has flu /pneumonia like symtoms.

[blownable]

Are you going along the lines of a parasitic infection or more towards the flu

[pondguru]

I have no real desire to swim outdoors anywhere in most of our country - you don't know what you will catch.

[blownable]

I'd like to go swimming in there during winter, with skivvies, of course. Perhaps I could jump headfirst into your pond and come up floating at the top oncased in an icecube

[pondguru]

My wife would never swim in the pond but you know what kids are like if there is water and muck they will find it.

[blownable]

Oh, now I know shes your daughter.

[blownable]

Who's Freya?

[pondguru]

Freya swims when we get the boat out in the summer.

[blownable]

HAve you or anyone gone swimming in there?

[pondguru]

Thanks, man.

[mrhepden]

so cool

[pondguru]

No, they stay out all year. There are reports of them surviving in central Scotland also (which is much colder) They'll never breed but out of the five in the pond, I've already seen two this year (last week) basking in the sun, before it got cold again. The pond is about 4m deep so overwintering isn't a problem. I live near Consett, about 12miles West of Newcastle.

[joeotley]

mate where in NE you live? I'm right up on the borders, built a heated indoor turtle pond (in the greenhouse)... surely you bring in the terrapins over the winter? Can't believe they're surviving our winters like?