Nitemare - oops its morning, so its a morningmare

[tucker]

This is not been a good week......everything has been happening and going wrong.
This morning, got up, and we had to go into town first thing......didn't look at the pond, but heard the waterfall running.
Just got home......and decided to go out and plant some flowers I brought last nite and looked at the pond, and saw nothing.......no lily pads, no lily blooms, no water .
I only had about 1-1/2ft of water left in my pond (and my pond is 15'x15'x3-1/2' deep - approx 5000 gals).....good thing my pump is off the bottom. Some of the plants were knocked over, and the hose leading to the filter was on the ground.
First thing......turn on the water - luckily, I have well water - lets hope I have a good supply, lol. Its going in slow as I have a nozzle on it to spray it in to give it some O2.
The fish seem ok.....I see my big ones, have no idea if some of the smaller ones are missing (I have alot), and don't have an exact count.
Now, my patience with critters is running thin (we have a beaver in the swamp next to us that I have spent a hour a morning breaking the dam down that is in the creek that runs my property line - he likes flooding my back yard), and if this is a raccoon, or other critter - he's dead.
Well, might as well clean the filters while this is happening, and figure out a way to keep that hose from being knocked out of the filter again.

[Cinnamon]

I would say that would definitely be Daymare nightmare or just plain scarey! I hope all your fish are okay. Good luck!

[Jackie Ramo]

Lucky that the pump was off the bottom!!! Been there done that!! a real adrenaline rush for sure!! My guess is raccoon as they have little hands that love to mess with things. I put a good solid rock on my hose, this was at the last house, this hose is buried.

[tucker]

I put the hose partly over the waterfalls, with rocks on both sides and a rock on top.
Right now, I am still adding water.......doing maybe a 1000 gallons at a time (don't want the well to go dry, lol).....but the water looks terrible.
With the hot sun and high temps....it killed and dried out all the algae that was starting to grow, and its all floating around in little tiny pieces. I was going to wait and shop vac the sides before I started adding too much water, but Gary decided while I was at work last nite, to start adding more water (he tried to be helpful). Besides my normal pump, I have a submersible in there, going thru a hose to my shop vac filled with batting......and it needs to be cleaned twice a day.

[Jackie Ramo]

It can cause a real mess!! Watch the water parameters as well as the dead algae can do a number on the water. Total Bummer! but at least the fish are all there.

That is how my old hose worked as well, found a good flat rock that they couldnot roll off the hose and rebuilt the waterfall... hard work but worth the nice sleep at night.