Instant Pond

[bindian]

What is a read ear slider ?
Do you use the pond for irrigation or just for the duckies? My pond isn稚 as big as yours but works slick for watering. I have the 1 1/2 Honda pump and have poly pipe throughout the property with hose bibs every few hundred feet. Almost all our watering for vegetables and landscaping is done from the pond even though I have well water run to the garden as well. One of these days I will get around to treating with Bentonite to hopefully stop the leaks!

Uh...the pond is mainly for catfish. The ducks just add color to it and the surroundings. Dad raised Mallards when I was little, so the ducks have a special place in my heart. The pond is really for everything God created to enjoy. A pond is clearly therapy.

Red Ear Sliders are turtles. Little ones (50 cent size) used to be sold in dime stores and pet stores. Brady will one day have his garden going and we might pump off of it for irrigation.
hugs, Brandi

 

[groundcover]

No wonder they are hard to shoot from that distance !

 

[bindian]

No wonder they are hard to shoot from that distance !

Oh, now I see what you are talking about. The Red Ear Sliders seem to have good vision. They flip into the water when they see movement 60 or so yards away. So if they are sunning, you have to either make a long shot, or sneak in from behind his blind spot. If there are lots of sliders sunning, they "park" at different directions and when one flips into the water, they all do. It is great sport trying to sneak up on a slider, or even a logger head turtle.

When I get really big logger head turtles in the pond. I get the extension ladder out and raise the Mahindra's loader bucket to full up, then put the ladder up to the bucket and climb in with some cushion pads. Then I wait for mister logger head to stick his huge beaked head out of the water. But now I am using the shotgun. No more logger head. Gotta protect the fish you know.

Right now, there are only 3 Red Ear Sliders in the pond. They are about 3 inches in diameter and try to eat the floating catfish food.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Our area was in moderate draught mode. The pond was down about 4.5 feet. This morning, with a 1.5 inch rain gully washer, it was back full and overflowing in an hour. Thus the name..................Instant Pond.
hugs, Brandi

 

[MickeyDBC]

Oh, now I see what you are talking about. The Red Ear Sliders seem to have good vision. They flip into the water when they see movement 60 or so yards away. So if they are sunning, you have to either make a long shot, or sneak in from behind his blind spot. If there are lots of sliders sunning, they "park" at different directions and when one flips into the water, they all do. It is great sport trying to sneak up on a slider, or even a logger head turtle.

When I get really big logger head turtles in the pond. I get the extension ladder out and raise the Mahindra's loader bucket to full up, then put the ladder up to the bucket and climb in with some cushion pads. Then I wait for mister logger head to stick his huge beaked head out of the water. But now I am using the shotgun. No more logger head. Gotta protect the fish you know.

Right now, there are only 3 Red Ear Sliders in the pond. They are about 3 inches in diameter and try to eat the floating catfish food.
hugs, Brandi

When we have rain our tank is about 2.5 acres. Right now it is under 1 acre because of the drought. When we bought the place it was pretty much a handful of big bass and a thousands of turtles. Took me and a couple of buddies two years to thin them down to a more manageable level, now we have bullfrogs back and I am starting to see some smaller fish but I think I am going to have to stock some bluegill for the bass to eat. When you get too many of them I would find them with the mower wandering around in the pasture looking for a place to lay eggs. A few are good, thousands, not so much.

Really like how your tank turned out. Should get years of enjoyment from it.

 

[bindian]

When we have rain our tank is about 2.5 acres. Right now it is under 1 acre because of the drought. When we bought the place it was pretty much a handful of big bass and a thousands of turtles. Took me and a couple of buddies two years to thin them down to a more manageable level, now we have bullfrogs back and I am starting to see some smaller fish but I think I am going to have to stock some bluegill for the bass to eat. When you get too many of them I would find them with the mower wandering around in the pasture looking for a place to lay eggs. A few are good, thousands, not so much.

Really like how your tank turned out. Should get years of enjoyment from it.

Hehehe. Thanks. When livestock drink out of them, we call them tanks. This is a pond. When I was little, Dad bought 78 acres somewhere near Blue. Wish he could have kept it. I think now, that area was reclaimed after coal mining. All I remember of were it was..........it backed up to a two lane road with a sign that said.................Austin 40 miles.
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

Your pond looks really good. Do you have two ponds?

 

[bindian]

Yep. Small pond is about 30x60 and a stone's throw from the back deck.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Here is a photo of both ponds, today, from my back deck.
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

Here is a photo of both ponds, today, from my back deck.View attachment 678387
hugs, Brandi

Thanks for the picture, that really shows how the ponds fit together on your land nicely. Do you still have the ducks?