Last night and this morning, I have seen the biggest dragonflies hovering around the pond. I don't mean, "Oh, that's a big dragonfly." I mean, "This thing is as long as the palm of my hand and looks dangerous!"
There was one bright orange one, one blue one, and a silver one this morning. They are so, so lovely.
I need to add in some perching sticks for them so they'll stick around and eat the mosquito babies that just came out of the water. I don't get how the fish missed those but I suppose with only 13 fish they can't cover the whole pool so some got through. Now with 50+ fish, I'm hoping they'll do the job better.
I do love those fish. They are getting so big - the originals I put in there that were only about an inch and a half long have now doubled in size. How cool is that?! Timmy hasn't eaten them all for once.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Feeshes
Oh yeah, I also put in 20 more large-ish goldfish and 20 more smaller ones. I know Timmy will eat some of the smaller ones, but I'm hoping it'll be enough to keep him away from the bigger ones for a little while.
Timmy is still kind of surprised by the whole thing, it seems, because he's staying on the bottom of the pond. He's alert, though, and looks at me when I come by or get in, but he doesn't swim around or move much. I did pick him up and he squirmed, so I know he CAN be active, but the girl at $petstore said that's normal when they have to adjust to a new place.
Timmy is still kind of surprised by the whole thing, it seems, because he's staying on the bottom of the pond. He's alert, though, and looks at me when I come by or get in, but he doesn't swim around or move much. I did pick him up and he squirmed, so I know he CAN be active, but the girl at $petstore said that's normal when they have to adjust to a new place.
Minty
Got my water mint yesterday. I've never had plants shipped to me before, so I was really excited and really anxious; I had stuff to do until 11:00am and then I raced home to check the mail. The plant wasn't delivered until about 3:00pm but it was dropped off right to my door.
The two water mint plants were HUGE compared to what I had thought they'd look like. I put them into six inch pots (the only pots I had enough soil for) and used organic potting soil (which prevents me from putting them into the pool). Then I soaked them with the pond water until it ran out the bottom and I set them in partial sun.
A few hours later, they didn't look so great. I then took a plastic bin and put the pots inside it and filled it up with pond water. Later that night, they had perked up quite a bit. Yay plants!
With the soil in them, I know I can't put them along the side of the pond because any water runoff is brown and I don't want that in the pond. What I plan to do is take some cuttings once they recover enough from their travel and the new environment and start the cuttings in water. I hope to be able to put them in pots of sand and submerge the pots a few inches into the pond. We shall see; I have been learning patience and I know I can't rush into everything. I do hope they recover sufficiently by next week, though.
The two water mint plants were HUGE compared to what I had thought they'd look like. I put them into six inch pots (the only pots I had enough soil for) and used organic potting soil (which prevents me from putting them into the pool). Then I soaked them with the pond water until it ran out the bottom and I set them in partial sun.
A few hours later, they didn't look so great. I then took a plastic bin and put the pots inside it and filled it up with pond water. Later that night, they had perked up quite a bit. Yay plants!
With the soil in them, I know I can't put them along the side of the pond because any water runoff is brown and I don't want that in the pond. What I plan to do is take some cuttings once they recover enough from their travel and the new environment and start the cuttings in water. I hope to be able to put them in pots of sand and submerge the pots a few inches into the pond. We shall see; I have been learning patience and I know I can't rush into everything. I do hope they recover sufficiently by next week, though.
Shade Made
Put up a shade tent across one side of the pool. Set up two sunning areas. Released the turtle.
The water temp in the shade was around 80 and it's 100 outside now, so I think the turtle will be ok even if it goes up a little. I will be closely monitoring him the entire day, though, to make sure he's ok. And to make sure he doesn't eat all my surviving fish.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Bikini Bottom
I can see the bottom of my pool / pond as of this morning. All of the bottom. It's covered in algae, but hey, I can see it.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Survivor Fish
Released the surviving feeder fish from Timmy's aquarium into the pool today. I couldn't stand to see them just swimming around unhappily in the tank. They survived Turtle Island, so they get the reward of Pool Paradise.
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