Viewing post #1640959 by EscondidoCal

MoonShadows said:Wow, that's a lot of ducks! Nice pics.

Thanks!
re: Your pond & video......very nice job!

There was an overflow crowd this morning of ducks AND crows......I couldn't even crawl into the hallway to
turn on the furnace as the crows would split, and probably all the ducks.....a lot of newbies that have a flock mentality,
though there are some Elites aka Uber ducks there to show teach them how to look cool.
Anyway, always fun to watch & study them......verrrrrry cool ducks. ;)

Looks like unless you can get the water tested to find out the composition of the TDS, you'll have to dump most of the water. I don't know if such a test is expensive or not. Also, I know in some areas of CA, there are strict water restrictions and high costs, right. Would you re-fill from your household water source or have it trucked in by tanker?

TDS is easy to check, but haven't heard definitively if the current level is toxic. A pond place here didn't think so. The ducks seem to be thriving, too.
So am not going to stress about it, and we've started adding hyacinths, duck weed, and miscellaneous small floating plants.
I ordered 3 nice lotus (tubers) from PondPlantsRUs, too.

Ah, I'm just a pond novice. I only put in our garden pond this past Spring. It's a small 425 gallon raised pond. I was going to damn up a natural spring on our property that runs through a deep depression behind our house, but the 4 inches of paperwork and fees from the State of Pennsylvania put an end to that. (Endangered species study, historic building study, 100 year flood study, run-off study, site survey, relocating "wet land", etc., etc., etc.!)

I still may just dig a hole in our back field and put a well in to feed it. They can't stop me from doing that.

Go for it!