A backyard pond is something for you and your family and even visitors to your home to enjoy.
Most home improvement stores have kits you can buy to install your pond.Once you have it up and running, they are beautiful as well as providing plant and animal life a refuse.
A pond is easy and inexpensive to create. So,enjoy a pond and so will your fish and plants.
THE BASICS
Easier - A pond is a small, quiet, enclosed body of freshwater. Ponds are smaller than lakes.
Harder - Ponds are nothing more than depressions in the ground where water collects. They are quiet, shallow bodies of water that allow enough sunlight to reach their bottom. The sunlight supports the growth of rooted plants from shore to shore. Some pond plants grow entirely underwater or have parts that extend above the surface. Leafy plants may float on the surface. Other plants can grow along the pond edge. If left alone, ponds will eventually fill in with dirt and debris until they become solid land. It often takes hundreds of years for a pond to be transformed from a body of clear water into soil.
Ponds often support a large variety of animal and plant life. Wind and streams can carry in eggs, seeds, and organisms that develop into various life forms. Pond animals include birds, crayfish, fish, frogs, insects, and turtles. Microscopic organisms also thrive in most ponds.
Water temperature of ponds is fairly even from top to bottom and changes with the outside air temperature. There is little wave action in the water body, and the pond bottom is usually mud-covered. The amount of dissolved oxygen in the pond may vary greatly during a day. In cold climates, the entire pond can freeze solid.
Harder - Ponds are nothing more than depressions in the ground where water collects. They are quiet, shallow bodies of water that allow enough sunlight to reach their bottom. The sunlight supports the growth of rooted plants from shore to shore. Some pond plants grow entirely underwater or have parts that extend above the surface. Leafy plants may float on the surface. Other plants can grow along the pond edge. If left alone, ponds will eventually fill in with dirt and debris until they become solid land. It often takes hundreds of years for a pond to be transformed from a body of clear water into soil.
Ponds often support a large variety of animal and plant life. Wind and streams can carry in eggs, seeds, and organisms that develop into various life forms. Pond animals include birds, crayfish, fish, frogs, insects, and turtles. Microscopic organisms also thrive in most ponds.
Water temperature of ponds is fairly even from top to bottom and changes with the outside air temperature. There is little wave action in the water body, and the pond bottom is usually mud-covered. The amount of dissolved oxygen in the pond may vary greatly during a day. In cold climates, the entire pond can freeze solid.
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