According to many low-tech fish tank and riparian builds, a key feature of preventing algae growth and natural water filtration was using terrestrial plants and marginal plants without soil and only substrate (such as the akadama or expanded clay). This forces the plants to develop water roots in which they pull their nutrient needs directly from the water column. The lack of excess nutrients in the water column discourages algae overgrowth and keeps the water very clear. While water & floating plants help with this too, they are best at adding oxygen to the water. While terrestrial plants grown hydroponically are better at filtering the water and keeping algae at bay. Hope this helps someone ❤
Thank you for watching this long video. I have made a little indoor pond as well. This is easy DIY you can check 😉 ua-cam.com/video/Mdh3i0gPIR8/v-deo.htmlsi=SW6ordRiEOXzemGE
I just love the way you have experimented on natural and different ways of looking after your fish. They look so happy and content in their home. The plants are lovely too and everything looks so clean and fresh. Well done, keep the videos coming please.
@@livelovelaughdiy my shrimp, snails, and white cloud mountain minnows live in my patio pond year round. This winter I added an LED light to prevent a complete freeze over, and that started my pond breeding a full 6 weeks earlier this year. Your videos are so soothing, thank you!!!
Thats a lovely new pond ❤️ Live with nature and with the rhythm of life is a gift, most people lost that today. Thanks for sharing and keep enjoy life 🙏
Sensational job and still watching in 2024! ♥️♥️♥️🐟🐟🐟 so much love and labour and seeing it come alive. Just beautiful and peaceful to come along the journey. #Zen #garden it is!
I Simply was so taken by your beautiful natural approach & your gentle patient Japanese culture which comes through. Love that natural Ponds in Japan fish are not fed but rely on natural ecosystems based from (1700's in Japan). We loved Japan so very much ❤️ 2014 holiday. I sumply couldnot take enough photos. I had wanted to visit Japan since I was a very little girl. I loved it all so very much from Osaka to Kyoto Tokyo, Nagano, & Yaminuchi to see the beautiful snow Monkeys & I felt like I was walking & meditating at the same time. Love the Bamboo forest. Have always wanted to put together a Japanese style water garden with fish to keep my memories alive. I wanted a traditional approach Arigato goziamas 🙏❤
Arigato gozaimasu for your beautiful message and sharing the memories that you had in Japan! You visited many different places, that must’ve been wonderful experiences! I’ve never seen snow monkeys, but I have seen some beautiful bamboo forests. Glad you enjoyed this video. Thank you… 🙏
For algae overgrowth..especially string algae...if you make a small bunch ( tie with string ) of BARLEY STRAW ( buy in nurseries or produce shops etc... where you buy hay .... ) it works really well to kill or restrict the algaes. I always used it in my ponds. Beautiful video thank you .
Fill bucket with water. Let it sit out side in shade for two days. Chlorine will evaporate into the air out of the water. Better for fish. Lovely garden. Good info on pond soil.
Thank you for your advice 💕 yes I normally do the same method to dechrolinate tap water. In my area, tap water contains chloramine as well which doesn't evaporate easily, so I try to keep my bucket of water in a sunny area for a longer period 😊
If you can get barrel and collect rain water for your pond even better. Puts some buckets out when it rains or catch some from down pipe from roof but roof must be clean not dusty mouldy or dirty. Same with down pipe. Rice fish pretty and white.
Thank you so much, for sharing your pond with us, and how you put it together. It's so beautiful. I imagine it gives you such pleasure to look at, and take care of. I also love the spot it is in, with that lovely bushy plant that surrounds it, like a warm hug. Everything including the pond looks so neat and tidy. Very peaceful. I love all of it. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! The plant around my pond is panda grass. It looks like mini bamboo. When I installed my first pond there, I planted only a few of the grass but they grew so much!
I love your channel so naturally spiritual and the music is awesome. I enjoy watching the fry swimming together with the older rice fish. You give us all the information we need to start our pond. I hope someday to have a pond just like yours to enjoy.
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment! Watching little white fish swimming in the pond is therapeutic. I’m sure you will enjoy making your own pond 🐟
Magical! Without any techie bits of equipment you produce an aquatic oasis. There is something delightfully childlike in the way you combine all the techniques into something that is truly awe inspiring. The management of the water for the daphna is so well explained I live in the UK so I doubt if my ponds would overwinter, but I'm inspired to give it a try in an adapted format. Thank you :-)
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment from UK! This pond works in Japan where it’s quite cold in Japan and rice fish can survive under the ice. But if the entire water gets frozen, they die. Some people use a styrofoam bowl during winter because it gives better insulation. I don’t know how cold it gets in your area, but sending you the best wishes…💕
It’s so awesome to see the ponds growth and yours as well! Your channel is amazing and I feel like I’m watching a vid that should have millions of views, so well done 💕
Your videos filled me up with peace, I have a fish pond with two gold fish and one water turtle. Watching this makes me want to have a few more fish pounds.Thanks for sharing!
You have created a beautiful tsubo-niwa. Well done. As I watched your plant choices I knew that one plant you nestled along the rocks would get away from you but frequent pruning will keep it at bay. The fish will remind you.
Yes you are right about the plant! It’s covering more areas but at the moment, it’s in the green area. Once it starts escaping (?) from the area, I pluck them 😅
It's almost Summer here in Nova Scotia, Canada. I love keeping Guppies in a fountain pond on my deck and you are my new favorite person on the planet 😄.
It’s winter here now, and the water is cold, so my medaka fish are often sitting at the bottom of the patio pond. But some of them come up to the surface when I feed them. They are going well 😊
Love this! I have a passion for plants and ponds.I have several ponds, water features such as an oak barrel and Claw tub bathtub, hardshell ponds, goldfish and koi ponds. I love what you have created here. Lots of inspirational ideas and knowledge shared for creating a natural ecosystem, raising and keeping fish. Thank you for sharing.
Wow your ponds sound amazing! I am interested in the bathtub pond. Goldfish and koi fish are colourful and beautiful. Thank you for finding and watching this video 🙏
Witaj😊 piękny ten stawik z rybkami 🥰 urocze są te Twoje filmiki z przyjemnością je oglądam 🤗Bardzo mi się podoba ten Twój ogród zen 🎋Pozdrawiam Ewa z Polski❤
It seems to me that outdoor ponds cycle faster. I suggest adding a pot with plants from another pond into new pond to jump start the cycle, since a lot of the good microbes live in the pot that was sitting in an older pond. I also suggest giving away some of your medaka and adding some unrelated fish into your pond. It will help you produce more healthy fish in the future, since it will help increase the gene pool.
Thank you so much for your great suggestions. I always appreciate sharing knowledge and ideas! I have let some of the fish go away from the pond but haven’t put new ones in yet. I am hoping that the medaka community is growing in my area so that people can trade the fish easily. Transferring a pot from other pond is a great idea. Thank you for letting me know 😊
@@livelovelaughdiy hi LLL DIY, the medaka rice fish are becoming more popular as of recently, at least in the US. I’m sure in your country it’s growing in popularity too, since the niche for a perfect small, hardy, and colorful pond fish is something that is hard to find. I’m excited to see more from your channel.
Your pond is beautiful and you put so much work into it. I learned a lot. I want to start a pond but since I'm lazy, I want a relatively low-maintenance one. Thank you for sharing.
I think everyone likes low maintenance pond 😁 Japanese rice fish are great little hardy fish. Good luck with your new pond, and thank you for your lovely comment!
This is my first time watching your video, but I fell in love instantly! Love your diary-like narration, the natural shots, makes me feel like I'm there looking directly at your pond :')) Lovely!
Subscribed! Thanks for the inspiration. I've just set up my rice fish pond. I'm also in Australia so I found the same pot as yours at the local Bunnings (but I went with the larger 75cm size). I plugged up the hole with 2 part epoxy as your video suggested and it worked perfectly. No leaks! Thanks again for sharing, all the best with your Zen Garden!
Oh you got the bigger pot! That's better 👍 I wanted the bigger one as well, but there wasn't enough space in my Japanese garden. You will love your new pond and rice fish for sure! 💕
That pond looks absolutely stunning! I just stumbled upon your video and immediately hit the subscribe button. Watching it is so incredibly relaxing. I've been considering building a pond in my own garden, especially since I also have stray cats around, and your mesh solution seems both simple and effective. I'm thinking of adding guppies to my pond as well. I'll definitely be watching more of your videos to gather some inspiration and ideas. Thank you for sharing such wonderful content!
Awww 🥰 thank you so much for your lovely message! Guppies sound great, they will add wonderful colours! One of my cats loves to drink water from the patio pond. She used to try to catch the fish but she gave up now and just drinks water, but my other young one wants to play with the fish, and also I have cane toads sometimes jump in the pond. So I still need the mesh cover 😅
Wow! Your pond looks amazing! I made a pond when we lived in Japan and put goldfish and snails. Some of the fish were gone because there’s a cat in the neighborhood. Anyway, thank you for this video for inspiring me to make a better pond and how to take care/ maintain. Can’t wait for your next video.
You lived in Japan 🇯🇵when I was living with my parents in Japan,! I have had a similar experience. A cat from the neighbourhood took our koi fish from the pond. The fish was quite big, so I was shocked.😅 Thats why I cover my pond, I know it doesn't look good but certainly protects my fish. Glad you enjoyed my video, thank you so much for watching and your lovely comment!
Love your videos💖.. very relaxing and informative! You are the one who inspired me to set up three outdoor Medaka fish ponds, but now (when winter is over), I’m going to make a pond just like this one in the video! I’m in Melbourne so it’s very cold at the moment but my fish are still going well considering the cold 🥶. Thank you so very much, you are very creative! Best wishes 🙏
Thank you so so much for your lovely message from Melbourne. I’m glad to hear that your medaka are going well in your ponds in winter in Melbourne. I have some friends in Melbourne, and they say it’s cold often these days. Medaka is hardy! I’m sure you will end up with lots of new medaka babies in the large pond, and love them 😊💕
Thank you so much! I very much love my Medaka fish 💕. It’s very strange because I never thought I would love them so much lol!! And yes I can’t wait till they spawn, it will be the first time I’ve witnessed this! I have the red/orange Youkihi rice fish! All the best ❤️🙏🐠🌺🌿
Seeing the new baby fish is very exciting for me, so I tried to find the better way to breed my fish in the patio pond. Thank you for joining my channel 😊💕
I bought a ginormous half whiskey barrel from amazon, lined it with pondliner and keep it on the patio decking under a big awning and added 4 orandas. Pond going on 5 years now, fish were from my indoor tank and are 7+ years old. Very easy upkeep, but will need heavy duty pond filter, charcoal, clay, those plastic beads, uv etc, orandas are messy eaters and poop a lot (weekly half water change ofc).
Your patio pond sounds beautiful! My mum in Japan has a pond of goldfish. She doesn't change water regularly but has a powerful filter. Orandas are lovely💕 but yes! I can imagine their will poop more than rice fish!
I love the look if your finished garden. You worked so hard & then results are beautiful. Thank you for the rice fish video. I love on them Texas prairie (tornado alley). Unfortunately I can't do a full scale Japanese garden in my conditions but I can incorporate some elements here. Thank you for inspiration.
When the conditions are right, water fleas reproduce so fast. It’s winter here now, so I stopped growing my plankton. Thank you for your lovely comment 😊
The pond came out beautiful. I really like your Japanese-style corner. And thank you for putting the names of the plants on the screen, easier to find in the Netherlands using Latin names
Ive really enjoyed this video and I've also really enjoyed listening to you. I spent time in QLD and your manner of speaking is nicely peppered with familiar aussie euphemisms. Lots of good information, also appreciated you sharing the results good and less so. Now im toying with the idea of creating a little pond myself- im getting ahead of myself now though 😂. Ive subscribed and look forward to seeing what else is on your channel. Big l❤ve xxxx
Thank you so much! I like experimenting things. Sometimes I get good results and sometimes bad. Hopefully my experience is helpful. Thank you again for watching this video and subscribing my channel 😊
@@livelovelaughdiy it’s amazing how much Patience you have and caring for your Fish. I’m still working on my Pond. Building a walkway with a bridge over the pond so my 3 Grand kids can walk over and look at the fish. I have a 6 foot tall fence all around. But I have a problem with Stray Cats getting into my yard and eating my fish. I really want to buy Koi Fish. But need to figure out a way to stop the Cats. Hi 👋 from South Texas
Wow I would love to see your pond when it’s done! Sounds amazing!! Yes, sometimes cats are problem. My parents had a small patio pond with some koi fish but cats got them. Since then they covered the pond with wire mesh. It doesn’t look good but it protects the pond.
@@livelovelaughdiy sure 👍 I ll send you a Ticket to Fly over 😉 but I wonder if I decide to put a Wire Mesh under the bridge on both sides, will the fish move there when cats show up? 🤔 hi from South Texas USA
Your pond may be ok without the protection, because it sounds big enough that cats are not able to catch your fish. They don't want to fall in the water for sure! My parents' patio pond was small, so cats can easily touch the fish. Wishing you the best on your pond project!
You care your fishes a lot. Your fishes might be one of the luckiest creatures of the world 💝✨✨
Thank you❣️I love my fish so much, and emotionally attached to them now 😅
🙂👋
@@livelovelaughdiy 🙂🤗👋
According to many low-tech fish tank and riparian builds, a key feature of preventing algae growth and natural water filtration was using terrestrial plants and marginal plants without soil and only substrate (such as the akadama or expanded clay). This forces the plants to develop water roots in which they pull their nutrient needs directly from the water column. The lack of excess nutrients in the water column discourages algae overgrowth and keeps the water very clear. While water & floating plants help with this too, they are best at adding oxygen to the water. While terrestrial plants grown hydroponically are better at filtering the water and keeping algae at bay. Hope this helps someone ❤
Thank you so much for the useful tips!!
I came here to see how I could make a little indoor pond- got a whole education instead,😅, love it!❤
Thank you for watching this long video. I have made a little indoor pond as well. This is easy DIY you can check 😉
ua-cam.com/video/Mdh3i0gPIR8/v-deo.htmlsi=SW6ordRiEOXzemGE
I know right? Me as well ! So informative
Loved this video so much I didn’t even notice it was 21 minutes long!
Wow thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
I just love the way you have experimented on natural and different ways of looking after your fish. They look so happy and content in their home. The plants are lovely too and everything looks so clean and fresh. Well done, keep the videos coming please.
Thank you for your beautiful comment mum. Love ❤️
@@livelovelaughdiy my shrimp, snails, and white cloud mountain minnows live in my patio pond year round. This winter I added an LED light to prevent a complete freeze over, and that started my pond breeding a full 6 weeks earlier this year.
Your videos are so soothing, thank you!!!
I have never seen anyone breed water fleas to feed fish....this amazing
Thank you! Live food is the best treat for the fish 😉
Thats a lovely new pond ❤️ Live with nature and with the rhythm of life is a gift, most people lost that today. Thanks for sharing and keep enjoy life 🙏
Thank you 🙏 Yes, I couldn’t agree more! I always appreciate living with nature. It’s such a beautiful thing🌿
Sensational job and still watching in 2024! ♥️♥️♥️🐟🐟🐟 so much love and labour and seeing it come alive. Just beautiful and peaceful to come along the journey. #Zen #garden it is!
Awww 🥰 thank you so much. I just got emotionally attached to my fish by looking after them.
The combination of your voice, the content and the music selection.. sublime!
Wow thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
I Simply was so taken by your beautiful natural approach & your gentle patient Japanese culture which comes through.
Love that natural Ponds in Japan fish are not fed but rely on natural ecosystems based from (1700's in Japan).
We loved Japan so very much ❤️ 2014 holiday. I sumply couldnot take enough photos. I had wanted to visit Japan since I was a very little girl. I loved it all so very much from Osaka to Kyoto Tokyo, Nagano, & Yaminuchi to see the beautiful snow Monkeys & I felt like I was walking & meditating at the same time.
Love the Bamboo forest.
Have always wanted to put together a Japanese style water garden with fish to keep my memories alive.
I wanted a traditional approach
Arigato goziamas
🙏❤
Arigato gozaimasu for your beautiful message and sharing the memories that you had in Japan! You visited many different places, that must’ve been wonderful experiences! I’ve never seen snow monkeys, but I have seen some beautiful bamboo forests. Glad you enjoyed this video. Thank you… 🙏
For algae overgrowth..especially string algae...if you make a small bunch ( tie with string ) of BARLEY STRAW ( buy in nurseries or produce shops etc... where you buy hay .... ) it works really well to kill or restrict the algaes. I always used it in my ponds. Beautiful video thank you .
Wow what a great tip! I’ll definitely try. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
Fill bucket with water. Let it sit out side in shade for two days. Chlorine will evaporate into the air out of the water. Better for fish. Lovely garden. Good info on pond soil.
Thank you for your advice 💕 yes I normally do the same method to dechrolinate tap water. In my area, tap water contains chloramine as well which doesn't evaporate easily, so I try to keep my bucket of water in a sunny area for a longer period 😊
If you can get barrel and collect rain water for your pond even better. Puts some buckets out when it rains or catch some from down pipe from roof but roof must be clean not dusty mouldy or dirty. Same with down pipe. Rice fish pretty and white.
I see! Rain water in my area is very clean, I'll definitely do that 👍Thank you again for your kind advice, I always appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much, for sharing your pond with us, and how you put it together. It's so beautiful. I imagine it gives you such pleasure to look at, and take care of. I also love the spot it is in, with that lovely bushy plant that surrounds it, like a warm hug. Everything including the pond looks so neat and tidy. Very peaceful. I love all of it. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! The plant around my pond is panda grass. It looks like mini bamboo. When I installed my first pond there, I planted only a few of the grass but they grew so much!
I love your channel so naturally spiritual and the music is awesome. I enjoy watching the fry swimming together with the older rice fish. You give us all the information we need to start our pond. I hope someday to have a pond just like yours to enjoy.
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment! Watching little white fish swimming in the pond is therapeutic. I’m sure you will enjoy making your own pond 🐟
Magical! Without any techie bits of equipment you produce an aquatic oasis. There is something delightfully childlike in the way you combine all the techniques into something that is truly awe inspiring. The management of the water for the daphna is so well explained I live in the UK so I doubt if my ponds would overwinter, but I'm inspired to give it a try in an adapted format. Thank you :-)
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment from UK! This pond works in Japan where it’s quite cold in Japan and rice fish can survive under the ice. But if the entire water gets frozen, they die. Some people use a styrofoam bowl during winter because it gives better insulation. I don’t know how cold it gets in your area, but sending you the best wishes…💕
so glad i found this to watch today. thank you for insperation
Thank you for finding and watching this video!
素敵な庭素敵な人ですね💓紅葉を植えたらきっともっと和っぽくなりますね🍁
ありがとうございます！紅葉🍁見つけたら植えたいです♪
How lovely your pond is. You work hard and patient so these little swimmers can exist. Thank you for sharing and God Bless You
Thank you so much for your blessing🥰 It’s winter here but my fish are happy here.
Such concerned and delicate care you provide. love it!
Thank you! Every time I see new baby fish, I want to give them a good care…
It’s so awesome to see the ponds growth and yours as well! Your channel is amazing and I feel like I’m watching a vid that should have millions of views, so well done 💕
Awww thank you so much! Your comment made my day! This video took a long time to make, but my effort paid off now 🙏
Oh i agréé absolutely....never Seen anything liké this....Fab u lous
I could watch your videos forever. So we’ll done, I’m inspired!
It's so nice of you, thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for making this beautiful video and for sharing your light with the world! 😊
Thank you for watching this video. I love my little fish 😊
Your videos filled me up with peace, I have a fish pond with two gold fish and one water turtle. Watching this makes me want to have a few more fish pounds.Thanks for sharing!
Your comment made me smile 😊 Thank you so much 🙏
You have created a beautiful tsubo-niwa. Well done. As I watched your plant choices I knew that one plant you nestled along the rocks would get away from you but frequent pruning will keep it at bay.
The fish will remind you.
Yes you are right about the plant! It’s covering more areas but at the moment, it’s in the green area. Once it starts escaping (?) from the area, I pluck them 😅
I love it... I love watching your videos by taking care of your fish. Thank you for sharing your videos. keep up the good work.
Thank you. I was getting emotionally attached to my fish, and tried to do the better things for them. :)
Peaceful, calm, tranquil and very well done 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such a special space you have created. With great care to the health of your fish.
Thank you 🙏 My fish are happily swimming now.
It's almost Summer here in Nova Scotia, Canada. I love keeping Guppies in a fountain pond on my deck and you are my new favorite person on the planet 😄.
Awwww 🥰 so nice of you! I am thinking of getting a guppie pond as well.
Thank you for such a beautiful indepth video of the pond. Its stunning.
I prefer the shape of this new pond so much better
Thank you, I like the new pond too!
This was truly delightful to watch. Your pond is sooo charming.
Thank you so much! I enjoy looking after my fish.
So great, full of great information. I like the way narrates everything she does!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Thanks for showing all your steps and missteps in setting up this pond. Very helpful.
Thank you for watching this video!
very relaxing to watch... and beautiful little pond.
Thank you so much 😊
Fantastic...in awe of your work, care and creativity ...
Thank you so much ☺️
Would love an update on your gorgeous pond and stunning Medaka rice fish. Hope all is going well. 😊
It’s winter here now, and the water is cold, so my medaka fish are often sitting at the bottom of the patio pond. But some of them come up to the surface when I feed them. They are going well 😊
this video was very informative and relaxing
Glad you enjoyed my patio pond 😊
Love these ideas. You are such a great fish parent. I wish we fed farmed Salmon as logical as you do your fish.
Thank you 🙏 Farmed salmon would love organic live food for sure
Suka deh pas percobaan memperbanyak kutu air pakai matcha 👍.
Matchanya mantap 😁😁😁
I will also make such a small pond. Learned a lot of things from your video. Thank you from🇧🇩
Thank you for watching! I love having a mini pond. It’s not hard to set up and it is so peaceful!
So gorgeous and ingenious! I can’t wait to see your next video!
Thank you so much !🙏🙏🙏
My new video is going to be published tomorrow night (Australian time). Hope you enjoy it too 😊💕
Love this! I have a passion for plants and ponds.I have several ponds, water features such as an oak barrel and Claw tub bathtub, hardshell ponds, goldfish and koi ponds. I love what you have created here. Lots of inspirational ideas and knowledge shared for creating a natural ecosystem, raising and keeping fish. Thank you for sharing.
Wow your ponds sound amazing! I am interested in the bathtub pond. Goldfish and koi fish are colourful and beautiful. Thank you for finding and watching this video 🙏
I am just starting with Medaka, learning so much with your videos.. loving it.
Thank you 😊 and congratulations on your new medaka! I've just visited your videos. You have beautiful aquarium! I love your koi bettas😍
Witaj😊 piękny ten stawik z rybkami 🥰 urocze są te Twoje filmiki z przyjemnością je oglądam 🤗Bardzo mi się podoba ten Twój ogród zen 🎋Pozdrawiam Ewa z Polski❤
Dziękuję za ponowne przybycie do mnie i moich rybek 😊
Wow! I had no idea I was going to learn so much! Beautiful and amazing! Thank you! 🙏🏻🥰
Thank you so much for watching 🙏💕
It's absolutely beautiful and brings peace to mind
Thank you 😊 I love watching my little fish swimming in the pond, it's therapeutic.
What a great, well put together video. Very informative with so many useful tips. Thank you for that. ❤
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!
You have done amazing Japanese garden i hope mine turns out as good thankyou
Thank you and enjoy making your Japanese garden 😊
It seems to me that outdoor ponds cycle faster.
I suggest adding a pot with plants from another pond into new pond to jump start the cycle, since a lot of the good microbes live in the pot that was sitting in an older pond.
I also suggest giving away some of your medaka and adding some unrelated fish into your pond. It will help you produce more healthy fish in the future, since it will help increase the gene pool.
Thank you so much for your great suggestions. I always appreciate sharing knowledge and ideas! I have let some of the fish go away from the pond but haven’t put new ones in yet. I am hoping that the medaka community is growing in my area so that people can trade the fish easily. Transferring a pot from other pond is a great idea. Thank you for letting me know 😊
@@livelovelaughdiy hi LLL DIY, the medaka rice fish are becoming more popular as of recently, at least in the US. I’m sure in your country it’s growing in popularity too, since the niche for a perfect small, hardy, and colorful pond fish is something that is hard to find.
I’m excited to see more from your channel.
Awww thank you so much 😊 😊😊
Thank you for sharing all this information and these beautiful relaxing videos 💖
Hope it was helpful for you. Thank you for watching this video 😊
This was soooooooo relaxing to watch! Such dedication and knowledge....All the best. Thank you!
Awwww thank you so much! I just love my fish! Thank you for watching 😊
Absolutely fabulous, one of the best videos I've seen. And I've seen a lot.
Wow thank you so much! Your comment made my day 🙏
Lovely pond set up; I learnt from your video how to create natural food for my Endler fish, thank you!
Endler fish are beautiful! Glad my experiment was helpful for your fish 💕
Thank you for sharing how you made your pond. I shall try this, probably just plants for now to see how it grows in colder climate.
Glad you liked this patio pond. Hope you can find some plants that do well in your area 😊
GREAT BUILD....THANKS
Glad you like it, thank you 🙏
Your pond is beautiful and you put so much work into it. I learned a lot. I want to start a pond but since I'm lazy, I want a relatively low-maintenance one. Thank you for sharing.
I think everyone likes low maintenance pond 😁 Japanese rice fish are great little hardy fish. Good luck with your new pond, and thank you for your lovely comment!
Being "lazy" is a choice, you don't have to be. Make the choice to be more active🙂✌️
You are amazing and love your beautiful work there ❤🎉 and thanks for sharing
I’m happy to hear that you liked my pond. Thank you for your lovely comment!
Your kitties are so cute 😻😻 love your Zen garden
Thank you 💕 I love cats 🐈
This is my first time watching your video, but I fell in love instantly! Love your diary-like narration, the natural shots, makes me feel like I'm there looking directly at your pond :')) Lovely!
Thank you so much for finding this video. I love my fish so much, and feel attached to them. Glad you enjoyed seeing my pond!
@@livelovelaughdiy yeahh i can feel your love for the fishies ❤✨ have fun always and i wish you the best with your fishies and greeneries projects!
Awww 🥰 thank you!!
Subscribed! Thanks for the inspiration. I've just set up my rice fish pond. I'm also in Australia so I found the same pot as yours at the local Bunnings (but I went with the larger 75cm size). I plugged up the hole with 2 part epoxy as your video suggested and it worked perfectly. No leaks! Thanks again for sharing, all the best with your Zen Garden!
Oh you got the bigger pot! That's better 👍 I wanted the bigger one as well, but there wasn't enough space in my Japanese garden. You will love your new pond and rice fish for sure! 💕
This is so cool! Thank you for producing, making and sharing! I'm commenting from Minneapolis, MN USA.
Thank you for your lovely comment from Minneapolis. Actually I have been to Minneapolis long time ago. I loved it!
Such a calming and enjoyable video. I love your methods, such a beautiful garden and fish pond 🤗
Glad you liked my Japanese garden and fish 😊💕
Beautiful container pond. Lovely video.
Thank you so much 😊 it’s a nice shaped big bowl.
You take such good care of the fish.loved the video.thankyou.
Thank you so much. I am getting emotionally attached with my fish...😅
so nice and beautiful...hope to see more ❤❤❤
Thank you so much!!
That pond looks absolutely stunning! I just stumbled upon your video and immediately hit the subscribe button. Watching it is so incredibly relaxing. I've been considering building a pond in my own garden, especially since I also have stray cats around, and your mesh solution seems both simple and effective. I'm thinking of adding guppies to my pond as well. I'll definitely be watching more of your videos to gather some inspiration and ideas. Thank you for sharing such wonderful content!
Awww 🥰 thank you so much for your lovely message! Guppies sound great, they will add wonderful colours! One of my cats loves to drink water from the patio pond. She used to try to catch the fish but she gave up now and just drinks water, but my other young one wants to play with the fish, and also I have cane toads sometimes jump in the pond. So I still need the mesh cover 😅
1:40 Your orange boy is so handsome! I have one of my own, and they are just the most charming little gentlemen around. 🥰
Found another cat lover 😻😻😻 Orange cats are friendly aren't they?
japanese style best pool. awesome guys.
Thank you!
Wow, I miss having a garden. But, really enjoyed your video.
Thank you, it’s so nice of you ❤️
Wow! Your pond looks amazing! I made a pond when we lived in Japan and put goldfish and snails. Some of the fish were gone because there’s a cat in the neighborhood. Anyway, thank you for this video for inspiring me to make a better pond and how to take care/ maintain. Can’t wait for your next video.
You lived in Japan 🇯🇵when I was living with my parents in Japan,! I have had a similar experience. A cat from the neighbourhood took our koi fish from the pond. The fish was quite big, so I was shocked.😅 Thats why I cover my pond, I know it doesn't look good but certainly protects my fish. Glad you enjoyed my video, thank you so much for watching and your lovely comment!
Love your videos💖.. very relaxing and informative! You are the one who inspired me to set up three outdoor Medaka fish ponds, but now (when winter is over), I’m going to make a pond just like this one in the video! I’m in Melbourne so it’s very cold at the moment but my fish are still going well considering the cold 🥶. Thank you so very much, you are very creative! Best wishes 🙏
Thank you so so much for your lovely message from Melbourne. I’m glad to hear that your medaka are going well in your ponds in winter in Melbourne. I have some friends in Melbourne, and they say it’s cold often these days. Medaka is hardy! I’m sure you will end up with lots of new medaka babies in the large pond, and love them 😊💕
Thank you so much! I very much love my Medaka fish 💕. It’s very strange because I never thought I would love them so much lol!!
And yes I can’t wait till they spawn, it will be the first time I’ve witnessed this! I have the red/orange Youkihi rice fish! All the best ❤️🙏🐠🌺🌿
Your video is lovely and loving when you present your techniques. You have a new subscriber and fan. Thank you.
Seeing the new baby fish is very exciting for me, so I tried to find the better way to breed my fish in the patio pond. Thank you for joining my channel 😊💕
@@livelovelaughdiy I look forward to your videos.
I really enjoyed this post. Inspired to go make my own pond now! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you so much 😊 Glad to hear that you enjoyed my pond！
your so in tune with nature, bless you
I love nature…💕 Thank you 😊 🙏
Awesome very cute
Thank you! 😊
Love your videos. So relaxing to watch. Thank you
Thank you so much for watching this video!
i’m so glad you uploaded more about your pond :) i recently got some medaka myself!
Congratulations on your new medaka! You will love them :)
You are a scientist!
Hahaha, thank you
I really have enjoyed your video and your beautiful pond. It turned out just gorgeous! 💜
Thank you so much. Glad you liked my patio pond!
I bought a ginormous half whiskey barrel from amazon, lined it with pondliner and keep it on the patio decking under a big awning and added 4 orandas. Pond going on 5 years now, fish were from my indoor tank and are 7+ years old. Very easy upkeep, but will need heavy duty pond filter, charcoal, clay, those plastic beads, uv etc, orandas are messy eaters and poop a lot (weekly half water change ofc).
Your patio pond sounds beautiful! My mum in Japan has a pond of goldfish. She doesn't change water regularly but has a powerful filter. Orandas are lovely💕 but yes! I can imagine their will poop more than rice fish!
I love the look if your finished garden. You worked so hard & then results are beautiful. Thank you for the rice fish video. I love on them Texas prairie (tornado alley). Unfortunately I can't do a full scale Japanese garden in my conditions but I can incorporate some elements here. Thank you for inspiration.
Thank you 🙏 I really appreciate people find beauty in Japanese culture.
Growing that micro organisms for your fish surprised me. 👍🏼👍🏼 over here people buy from aquarium shops and it can be quite expensive
When the conditions are right, water fleas reproduce so fast. It’s winter here now, so I stopped growing my plankton. Thank you for your lovely comment 😊
So peaceful. ❤
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for sharing! I love this video.
Wow thank you ‼️
This was really good
Thank you 🙏
Very peaceful and enjoyable program. Keep up the good work 🎋🍀🎍🐼
Thank you so much 😊
oh hermoso tu estanque, gracias por compartirlo y gracias por la traducción al español, besos desde ARGENTINA
Muchas gracias por ver este video. Me alegra que te haya gustado 😊
Loved the video guide gave me some ideas to add to my food garden to add a water feature in my backyard!
Adding a water feature make big difference. I got excited to read your comment!
This is impressively informative.
Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching this video 😊
The pond came out beautiful. I really like your Japanese-style corner. And thank you for putting the names of the plants on the screen, easier to find in the Netherlands using Latin names
Thank you so much for your comment from Netherlands 🇳🇱! Some of the plants I used in this pond are weed, hope you can find them in your area too!
Great video with lots of information. Thanks.
Thank you, I love experimenting things.
Thank you for sharing I really enjoy watching 🫶
Glad you enjoyed this video, thank you for watching!
very educational nicely done!! thank you from milwaukee i am planning to try this in my backyard
Thank you for your lovely comment from Milwaukee 🇺🇸 I would love to see your patio pond when it’s done 😍
I love this information...fabulous😊i am seriously gobsmacked, knowledge is amazing...you are brilliant
Awww 🥰 thank you so much. I just tried to find the better way to look after my fish.
Awww 🥰 thank you so much! I just tried to find the better way to look after my fish because I didn’t do well last time.
Ive really enjoyed this video and I've also really enjoyed listening to you. I spent time in QLD and your manner of speaking is nicely peppered with familiar aussie euphemisms. Lots of good information, also appreciated you sharing the results good and less so. Now im toying with the idea of creating a little pond myself- im getting ahead of myself now though 😂. Ive subscribed and look forward to seeing what else is on your channel. Big l❤ve xxxx
Thank you so much! I like experimenting things. Sometimes I get good results and sometimes bad. Hopefully my experience is helpful. Thank you again for watching this video and subscribing my channel 😊
Lovely informative video. Thank you ❤
I enjoyed this content very much
Thank you ☺️
Great video.i enjoyed looking how you experimenting until you got best result.
I will use rain water instead tap water.Thank you
Glad you enjoyed my experiment 😁 Rain water is good 👍 but it’s not recommended if you live in a big city or where air pollution is the issue.
A very entertaining and informative video! 😄
Glad you enjoyed it!
❤ Great job on your new pond. ❤ hi from South Texas , USA
Thank you 😊 I’ve got so many fish in this pond, and I enjoy watching them 😉
@@livelovelaughdiy it’s amazing how much Patience you have and caring for your Fish. I’m still working on my Pond. Building a walkway with a bridge over the pond so my 3 Grand kids can walk over and look at the fish. I have a 6 foot tall fence all around. But I have a problem with Stray Cats getting into my yard and eating my fish. I really want to buy Koi Fish. But need to figure out a way to stop the Cats. Hi 👋 from South Texas
Wow I would love to see your pond when it’s done! Sounds amazing!! Yes, sometimes cats are problem. My parents had a small patio pond with some koi fish but cats got them. Since then they covered the pond with wire mesh. It doesn’t look good but it protects the pond.
@@livelovelaughdiy sure 👍 I ll send you a Ticket to Fly over 😉 but I wonder if I decide to put a Wire Mesh under the bridge on both sides, will the fish move there when cats show up? 🤔 hi from South Texas USA
Your pond may be ok without the protection, because it sounds big enough that cats are not able to catch your fish. They don't want to fall in the water for sure! My parents' patio pond was small, so cats can easily touch the fish. Wishing you the best on your pond project!
Love the shishiodoshi sound!
I do too. Very relaxing sound...