FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

AOU: Building a Pond
Home gardener offers tips for building a pond, with details on pond construction materials, filters, and waterfalls, with diagrams to illustrate.
http://www.swedesdock.com/pond.sht

Building a Pitcher Plant Bog
Article by Ron Determann at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on the construction of a bog garden: materials, choosing the site, step-by-step instructions, and planting.
http://www.plantdelights.com/Tony/pitcher.html

Do You Want to Build a Pond?
Using personal pond construction experience and photos, the author offers advice on how to build a pond with pumps and above-ground filter.
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/7793/

Greg's Goldfish and Koi Farm
Design details of a large pond in which koi are raised, including some tips specific to larger ponds not found in most basic information sources.
http://bickal.home.mchsi.com/

Half-Barrel Pond Page
Covers the basics of half-barrel pond construction and maintenance.
http://www.jeffcook.com/hbpond.shtml

IHeartMyPond.com
Directory of links to on-site and off-site articles and related businesses, arranged by water gardening topic. Also offers user forums.
http://www.iheartmypond.com/

Justin's rec.ponds FAQ
A good collection of frequently asked pond questions and answers from rec.ponds newsgroup.
http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html

Koi Pond Fever
Contains information on building Japanese Koi ponds, pond equipment, Japanese Koi predators, Japanese Koi varieties, and plants for the Koi pond.
http://www.koipondfever.com

Perfect Pond Keeping
Information covering all important equipment and care aspects of keeping fish in ponds. Includes set of 12 free Excel pond calculators.
http://www.perfectpondkeeping.com

Pond Construction and Maintenance
Provides pond videos, and information about filtration systems, lighting options, and pond design.
http://www.naturestouchponds.com

Pond Doctor Dave
Arizona pond professional offers advice and information, with online question form and newsletter signup.
http://www.pond-doctor-dave.com

The Pond Lady
The resource section of this site offers instructions and tips on many aspects of pond construction and maintenance.
http://www.pondlady.com

Pond Life
Koi and sturgeon specialists offering friendly help and advice on all aspects of pond and fish keeping. Includes forums and photos.
http://pond-life.me.uk

Pond Life Identification Kit
Guide to small and microscopic pond life, with brief tips on collecting, and overview of life forms from bacteria to small insects, with brief articles on many of them.
http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/

The Pond Professor
A selection of articles covering koi and goldfish in ponds. Aimed at beginners and advanced fishkeeping enthusiasts.
http://www.thepondprofessor.com/

Pondfun.com
Provides information for the construction, maintenance and enjoyment of backyard ponds and water gardens.
http://www.pondfun.com

Pondinfo.com
Directory of water gardening information. The questions and answers and News and Notes sections contain useful information of general interest to the water gardener.
http://www.pondinfo.com/

Pondkeeping Answers
Information and advice on ponds aimed at fish pond keepers. Extensive articles, including encyclopedic reference section.
http://www.pond-doctor.co.uk/

The Real McKoi
Beginners guide to building a pond and keeping koi carp and cold-water fish.
http://www.therealmckoi.co.uk/

Selecting a Method for Sealing Ponds in Florida
Specific information detailing how to seal a pond. From the University of Florida Extension.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_WI012

Small Change Garden Pond
Step-by-step information on how to build a pond on a small budget.
http://pw2.netcom.com/~wandaron/gardenpond.html

Water Gardeners International - For Beginners
Articles covering planning, location, design, materials and components, and filtration systems for water gardens and Koi ponds.
http://www.watergardenersinternational.org/beginners/main.html

Water Gardening
Provides basic information on choosing, designing, and building a water feature, and plants to complement it.
http://www.waterplants.ca/

Water Gardening in Texas
An overview of topics in constructing and maintaining a water garden. By the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/homelandscape/watergarden/

The Wildlife Pond
Home ponder tells about creating a pond, and provides some information about the lifeforms within.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamie.bajer/

Wildlife Pond Building
Information on building a pond to attract wildlife such as frogs and birds, with additional pages on gardening for wildlife outside of the pond. Photos from the author's own pond and garden.
http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/pond/pond_pages.htm

World of the Water Garden
Basic information on building and maintaining water gardens for wildlife, by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council.
http://www.ipcc.ie/watergarden.html