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Info, including construction date and some specs, are above the images. Ponds in order by construction date, most recent on top. While most of our ponds serviced and built are in DFW, Texas, we do stretch the margins of the metroplex on both sales and construction. We cleaned, may have sealed concrete, limestone or sandstone that leached, changed a liner, redid a waterfall, basically gave these a face-lift.either built or re-built the featured ponds on this page. These are the ponds we had time to get pictures of, we clean a LOT of ponds.

Fall 2011 scheduling NOW. And drought changes coming.

The drought will be changing how we do cleanups. I received a card from the city of Fort Worth yesterday that says water cannot drain more than 50 feet from a yard. While this was doubtless aimed at leaky sprinklers, the fact is, when we drain a large pond fully we do waste a lot of water. Your flower beds and lawn will get as much as we can put there, since it is excellent for their health. But for large ponds in small yards, it is inevitable that if we drain the pond, some water will be going down the road to your nearest storm drain.

What kind of pond do you have? These diagrams are side views, looking through the ground at the layout of your pond. Crude sketches to familiarize you with the parts and function of your pond.

Everything Fishy builds ponds. We occasionally build a water feature, without a skimmer. We clean ponds and water features. We have changed the liner on ponds with a biofalls and skimmer, and re-attached the biofalls and skimmer. We have repaired leaks on biofalls and skimmers. We do not warrant the construction of your pond that we did not build. Everything sinks over time, including soft dirt walls under tons of rock, a particular problem for tall waterfalls with ledges built of soft dirt. We find and repair leaks. We offer options based on appearance and price, if your builder left us any options. You get to choose. When we build, we take into account certain things that happen. Like ground settling, rodents, runoff. We put raised perimeters on our ponds to handle settling and runoff. We do not count on interior stone walls to support the perimeter. We may put a facing ledge inside a pond, but it will not have stone running all the way to the bottom of the pond, so that one dog getting in can actually knock down the whole wall We put nonchewable stuff behind the waterfall liner to the best of our ability, to prevent leaks caused by rodents. Not every builder does. We didn't know to do this til the drought increased rodent damage. We learn from what we see. And we see a LOT of ponds.

But this page is about cleanups. When we clean we get the livestock out of the way - fish are moved to a stock tank. We pressure wash. If you have a water feature full of gravel, we flush the gravel and pump the dirty water out. A pond full of gravel never gets all the way clean, but we get it as clean as we can. We clean the filter, we clean the skimmer basket and skimmer pad. There are certain other filters that have limitations in how they can be cleaned, we follow their rules, and try not to break anything. We will look for limestone, mortar, concrete, things that grow algae, and remove them, with your permission. And you will understand the source of your algae problems if they are excessive. Some things require a sealant. Many times, water features are stocked with koi. One large koi needs 500 gallons of water to handle its bio-load and oxygen demand. You can keep 4 large koi in 500 gallons, but only until the first power outage. And the larger fish you have, the more fish you have, the more algae you will grow. We may suggest donating large koi to the botanic gardens. (please call them, there are rules regarding donations, to prevent the spread of disease.)

Algae growth on surface areas water contacts is normal. Whether it is a drip from watering the flowers that are in the pot on your porch, or the sidewalls of your pond, summer does paint them a bit green. Excessive algae growth, by our definition is string that has to be constantly removed, turf algae (about 3/8 inch tall, carpets rocks and liner), and green water. Certain water supplies are prone to problem and excessive algae. Haslet, Alvord, Decatur, Rhome, an area south of Denton and north of Fort Worth off I35, Burleson, and probably a few more. If we are asked to build the first thing I do is test the water, and let the homeowner know how difficult having a nice pond might be. Bad water isn't impossible, but it will require acid buffer, epsom salts, and a fair amount of tweaking. Still, the prairie ponds I saw today are HUGE, with large happy koi in them, and their owners love their ponds. That's a satisfying day. The prairie pond page is coming, I promise. No dainty little artificial waterfalls or filters to get blown to Oklahoma during the first storm..

This is a simple cleanup in Keller, Texas, but the stream is around 50 ft long, from end to end. The stream is in full sun, no plants, primed for algae growth (didn't get before pics on stream). We raised the stream wall in areas where it was leaking. Originally there were no plants, contributing to the algae growth, and no fish. We added plants and fish, tightened fittings on the waterfall output, and cleaned it up

When your pond builder or your brother-in-law or anyone wants to build you a pond with the cheapest local stone available, limestone, there is something you need to know: expect excessive plant growth and a LOT of algae. All species. Nature fills a void, you provide the food, she will provide the consumers. Turf algae, heavy string algae and green water. (the same holds true of concrete ponds by the way, but since they don't have liner, you don't have to worry about turf algae rooting in your liner and shortening its life, you just get green water.) Chemistry being what it is, lime, whether from limestone, concrete, mortar or in your water supply, is plant food. I did not build this pond, but we've cleaned it a couple of times, and we now have a sealant that can make limestone stop leaching plant food into the water. Unfortunately, we could only coat the faces on the limestone that we could get the sealant to, but anything to slow the algae down is going to be a big plus here. Turf algae cannot be scrubbed or pressure washed off liner. After it is pressurewashed it looks like clean astro-turf. Hence the nickname. We sterilize our equipment after working on a pond with this. Algae killers do not seem to affect it. Best way to remove it, remove or seal the offending stones and change the liner. This is not cheap. So we are sealing the stones, to cut off its food supply, and hoping it will die back. We've had fair results with this.