Great info, Ed! That same principle is true for aquariums too. People don't understand that the beneficial bacteria needed to break down the nitrites and ammonia lives primarily in the filter media and when they throw the media away because it's "dirty", they're actually causing the aquarium to go through the nitrogen cycle again until the bb colony grows back large enough to keep the water from getting toxic. The only difference is, ponds are big enough that you can keep the water because there are enough plants growing in and around it that they're able to knock the nitrates down to a reasonable level. In an aquarium however, varying degrees of water changes are necessary every week to accomplish that same affect.
Ed! So good to see you on a video! I love how excited you get about the whole ecosystem, and I love how interesting you make the education and full of excitement! Be in more videos! 😊
Excellent Explanation Ed, thank you. I'm certainly on the right track for my ponds. As we are in Autumn, going into Winter, I've been cleaning out dropped leaves. Should I leave the Leaves?
Kim from New Zealand Remove the bulk of them, some leaves will not hurt anything and in fact are beneficial because it will provide food and cover for benthic organisms. But too many leaves in a small pond can cause a Dissolved oxygen drop and/or increase tannic acids in the pond. Do you get extended periods of ice cover there???
@@edbeaulieu5916 No ice ever where I am. In fact our Summer and Autumn have been very hot, with an overdue Winter. I'm slowing feeding down, but it doesn't get cold enough to stop completely. It was 17 degrees Celsius at 0530. Crazy high temps for this time of year. Ponds don't get too many leaves and are over filtered :-)
Kim from New Zealand Then you’re in good shape! Our weather patterns have been all over the place too! High precipitation and extreme high and low temps during a 48 hour period.
Team aquascape you all are doing great job!really appreciated!i got inspired by your art and even i am a nature lover!so looking forward to start a NGO! hope we all meet one day! greak and paul are also creative!and even BEAR! DS7 from INDIA
Thanks for this video. It answered some of my questions but not all. I need my pond re-done/renovated and have always been hesitant to go the Aquascape way because I worry about all the animals (frogs, insects, snails) that overwinter and think a spring clean will kill all these critters. Can you help me feel better?
Alyssa Martin I moved a couple years ago and I haven’t had a chance to build a new one yet..... My previous pond is used in a lot of our marketing materials.
Thanks Ed for all of Your wisdom, and knowledge that You share freely with Us. You are an Excellent Brother. I agree with everything You say, I could finish Your sentences. I Am a Vegetarian, and Organic Gardener. I dug My Koi, and Sarrasa Pond last summer. I make My own Baki trickle filters, and I utilize plants and beneficial bacteria to maintain The water quality. I plant to post a video of My project soon on My channel " Grow 4 Survival " I have the little 1st pond, and baki filter with biological stream bed that I did two years ago on a video on the channel now. My present pond is much better, and bigger. The fish have grown a lot, and are very healthy, and happy thanks to You, and People like You on UA-cam. . May The Most High Creator bless You with The Love, and Respect of all of Our People, everything that You need both Spiritual, and physically, and everlasting life through the seven levels of Heaven. You deserve it. Respect.......Joshua Seven Thunders///////
Really good stuff! Nature really is the greatest teacher of systems. I'm curious though...how could the filtration system be more passive? The idea of a person having to hose down the filters every season and reseed the pond with exogenous probiotics feels counter to biomimicry.
Ed, could you share some of your knowledge on how to settle plants in the gravel of an ecosystem pond? Do I leave the soil the roots are sitting in when delivered or do I free the roots from any soil at all and put them "naked" into the gravel? Do I use substrate? Do I have to plant them differently in the pond vs. the wetland filter? There's a lot of information on many areas around a pond, but I couldn't find anything about the planting yet.
The best business with mazing guys building with love from The heart to taking care of the pound so your fish and water will save to living in it Ed is the best guy to explain and put all of he love in this water so water will be save to drink it too! #ilovemyjobs
In point of fact, the ecosystem is everything but the fish --- the fish provide the food for all the bacteria, plants, and algae. I like thinking that I'm a bacteria farmer, and the fish are the food providers. 😄
That's not what biomimicry means. That's not what eutrophication means. It's not a closed ecosystem. Algae aren't "living plants". He gets an *F* for poor familiarity of the big words (and small) he tries to use.
Ignes Andros Please elaborate..... We’re not mimicking natural processes? The eutrophication process is the buildup of nutrients and sediments that when left unchecked will change the water temperature, total suspended solids will increase, dissolved oxygen will become lower due to a higher BOD. You are correct in saying it’s not a 100% closed system because it’s outdoors so we get outside inputs....
@@edbeaulieu5916 It's modelled on natural processes, sure, but that's not biomimicry. Biomimicry refers specifically to modelling your design based on a biological process or biological formation. You described eutrophication, in the video, as the build-up of nutrients over time, faster than they can be broken down. That's nutrient build-up which is tangential to eutrophication. While this can cause eutrophication, this specific process itself is not technically eutrophication. What's more, there's no point in him describing it (inaccurately) as eutrophication since he failed to expand on why it's unwanted or bad, namely surface algae and subsequent anoxic conditions and fish die-off. It's not remotely a closed system. It could not function as a closed system. Your explanation of eutrophication in your reply is also incorrect. Sediments are a separate, though aggravating, factor from eutrophication. Also, oxygen becomes lower not just from higher biological oxygen demand, but also due to decreased free oxygen production by subsurface algae and plants and, to a lesser extent, due to increased surface tension (due to algal esters and lipids) diminishing natural gas exchange at the water / gas interface. Algae ≠ plants
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This is by far the best video on this channel. Good job! Could listen to Ed chat for hours...
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Every pond owner should watch this video. Good stuff, Ed!
Great info, Ed! That same principle is true for aquariums too. People don't understand that the beneficial bacteria needed to break down the nitrites and ammonia lives primarily in the filter media and when they throw the media away because it's "dirty", they're actually causing the aquarium to go through the nitrogen cycle again until the bb colony grows back large enough to keep the water from getting toxic. The only difference is, ponds are big enough that you can keep the water because there are enough plants growing in and around it that they're able to knock the nitrates down to a reasonable level. In an aquarium however, varying degrees of water changes are necessary every week to accomplish that same affect.
Ed makes boring science lesson fun and interesting.
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It's amazing too watch and listen to Ed talk about a subject that he is truly passionate about. Oh Chris good job filming and saying uh-huh ! lol
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Ed! So good to see you on a video! I love how excited you get about the whole ecosystem, and I love how interesting you make the education and full of excitement! Be in more videos! 😊
Valerie M Thanks Valerie!
Always a wealth of information...TY Ed!
Linda Leslie My pleasure!
I'm really glad I've seen this, I believe that ponds should be as natural as possible, it reinforces my opinion regarding our own pond.
Awesome video, thank you Ed!
Thank you for class ed!! I think I like your informational videos best! Hope to see you in Strongsville tomorrow!!
Brad Shantz Thanks Brad, sorry, I won’t be there, working with Brian.
Dang you brain!!
Brad Shantz Have fun with the Pondguy and Chris!
I had a blast!!!
Great info. Great video!
Michael Hammer Thanks!
So many new words! Great video guys. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion
Pondscapes Az Never stop learning! Periphyton.....
Ed I hope you can do a fall cleanup early in September so people understand the process. This video was very helpful. Thanks
Brad Parker Glad it helped!
Sharing video's as informative as this in the UK trying to change the "stones are bad for ponds" mentality here
Excellent Explanation Ed, thank you. I'm certainly on the right track for my ponds.
As we are in Autumn, going into Winter, I've been cleaning out dropped leaves. Should I leave the Leaves?
Kim from New Zealand Remove the bulk of them, some leaves will not hurt anything and in fact are beneficial because it will provide food and cover for benthic organisms.
But too many leaves in a small pond can cause a Dissolved oxygen drop and/or increase tannic acids in the pond.
Do you get extended periods of ice cover there???
@@edbeaulieu5916 No ice ever where I am. In fact our Summer and Autumn have been very hot, with an overdue Winter. I'm slowing feeding down, but it doesn't get cold enough to stop completely. It was 17 degrees Celsius at 0530. Crazy high temps for this time of year. Ponds don't get too many leaves and are over filtered :-)
Kim from New Zealand Then you’re in good shape!
Our weather patterns have been all over the place too!
High precipitation and extreme high and low temps during a 48 hour period.
Thank you Ed!
Your videos are amazing
Rachel Le Glad you enjoy them.
Team aquascape you all are doing great job!really appreciated!i got inspired by your art and even i am a nature lover!so looking forward to start a NGO!
hope we all meet one day!
greak and paul are also creative!and even BEAR!
DS7 from INDIA
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this is so awesome!!
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Outstanding
Looks amazing
Kamila Crawford Thanks!
I remember i seen ed on hdtv about 20 years ago, he was building a pond and waterfall in Arizona.
David J Yes, it was on a TV show called RockSolid
Thanks for this video. It answered some of my questions but not all. I need my pond re-done/renovated and have always been hesitant to go the Aquascape way because I worry about all the animals (frogs, insects, snails) that overwinter and think a spring clean will kill all these critters. Can you help me feel better?
Not a problem
Ed, can we see your pond?
Alyssa Martin 😂
Yes I'm agree for this idea!!
Alyssa Martin I moved a couple years ago and I haven’t had a chance to build a new one yet.....
My previous pond is used in a lot of our marketing materials.
@@edbeaulieu5916 "Amazing Backyard Pond for a Marine Biologist!!!" Sounds like a great video to put on the channels to do list ;)
Brandon Ho it’s filmed
Thanks Ed for all of Your wisdom, and knowledge that You share freely with Us. You are an Excellent Brother. I agree with everything You say, I could finish Your sentences. I Am a Vegetarian, and Organic Gardener. I dug My Koi, and Sarrasa Pond last summer. I make My own Baki trickle filters, and I utilize plants and beneficial bacteria to maintain The water quality. I plant to post a video of My project soon on My channel " Grow 4 Survival " I have the little 1st pond, and baki filter with biological stream bed that I did two years ago on a video on the channel now. My present pond is much better, and bigger. The fish have grown a lot, and are very healthy, and happy thanks to You, and People like You on UA-cam. . May The Most High Creator bless You with The Love, and Respect of all of Our People, everything that You need both Spiritual, and physically, and everlasting life through the seven levels of Heaven. You deserve it. Respect.......Joshua Seven Thunders///////
Ivan Quin Thanks Ivan!
Great vid
Rob Zapata Thank you!
Really good stuff! Nature really is the greatest teacher of systems. I'm curious though...how could the filtration system be more passive? The idea of a person having to hose down the filters every season and reseed the pond with exogenous probiotics feels counter to biomimicry.
Ed, could you share some of your knowledge on how to settle plants in the gravel of an ecosystem pond? Do I leave the soil the roots are sitting in when delivered or do I free the roots from any soil at all and put them "naked" into the gravel? Do I use substrate?
Do I have to plant them differently in the pond vs. the wetland filter?
There's a lot of information on many areas around a pond, but I couldn't find anything about the planting yet.
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The best business with mazing guys building with love from The heart to taking care of the pound so your fish and water will save to living in it
Ed is the best guy to explain and put all of he love in this water so water will be save to drink it too! #ilovemyjobs
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In point of fact, the ecosystem is everything but the fish --- the fish provide the food for all the bacteria, plants, and algae. I like thinking that I'm a bacteria farmer, and the fish are the food providers. 😄
Yooo
That's not what biomimicry means. That's not what eutrophication means. It's not a closed ecosystem. Algae aren't "living plants". He gets an *F* for poor familiarity of the big words (and small) he tries to use.
Ignes Andros Please elaborate.....
We’re not mimicking natural processes?
The eutrophication process is the buildup of nutrients and sediments that when left unchecked will change the water temperature, total suspended solids will increase, dissolved oxygen will become lower due to a higher BOD.
You are correct in saying it’s not a 100% closed system because it’s outdoors so we get outside inputs....
@@edbeaulieu5916 It's modelled on natural processes, sure, but that's not biomimicry. Biomimicry refers specifically to modelling your design based on a biological process or biological formation.
You described eutrophication, in the video, as the build-up of nutrients over time, faster than they can be broken down. That's nutrient build-up which is tangential to eutrophication. While this can cause eutrophication, this specific process itself is not technically eutrophication. What's more, there's no point in him describing it (inaccurately) as eutrophication since he failed to expand on why it's unwanted or bad, namely surface algae and subsequent anoxic conditions and fish die-off.
It's not remotely a closed system. It could not function as a closed system.
Your explanation of eutrophication in your reply is also incorrect. Sediments are a separate, though aggravating, factor from eutrophication. Also, oxygen becomes lower not just from higher biological oxygen demand, but also due to decreased free oxygen production by subsurface algae and plants and, to a lesser extent, due to increased surface tension (due to algal esters and lipids) diminishing natural gas exchange at the water / gas interface.
Algae ≠ plants
My fish eat All Plants
Aren't you the to catch a predator guy