Pond Maintenance Tips and Guides

Tranquil garden pond with clear water, koi fish swimming, surrounded by lush greenery and vibrant plants like water lilies and ferns, featuring a small waterfall under soft sunlight.

Welcome to our pond care blog, your go-to source for expert advice, tips, and inspiration on all things pond-related. Whether you’re looking to maintain a healthy pond ecosystem, build a stunning water feature, or explore the latest in pond filtration technology, we’ve got you covered. Our comprehensive guides and industry insights will help you keep your pond beautiful and thriving year-round. Dive into our articles and discover the best practices for every season!

  • High-performance koi pond with professional fibreglass finish built by That Pond Guy in Sussex, designed for beauty, durability, and optimal koi health.

    How to Build a Concrete Block Koi Pond: Complete UK Guide

    A concrete block koi pond is a permanent construction project, not simply a hole lined with masonry. The shell, drains, returns, viewing window, filtration and maintenance access all have to [...]

  • Bespoke koi pond built and maintained by That Pond Guy

    Koi Health Guide: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Safe Treatment

    When a koi looks unwell, the safest response is not to choose a treatment from a photograph or list of symptoms. Start with water quality and oxygen, examine the fish [...]

  • Koi Feeding Guide: Food, Amounts and Seasonal Care

    Feeding koi well is not about giving the largest possible amount. It is about choosing a digestible food for the current water temperature and purpose, offering a quantity the fish [...]

  • Family garden pond designed for safe viewing and responsible fish care

    Pond Safety Guide for Families, Visitors and Fish

    A garden pond combines open water, slippery edges, electricity, chemicals, tools and living animals. None of those risks makes a pond a bad idea, but they do require deliberate design [...]

  • Established garden koi pond creating a peaceful outdoor focal point

    Benefits of a Koi Pond: An Honest Owner’s Guide

    A well-designed koi pond can become the part of the garden that people naturally gather around: a changing view, a rewarding hobby and a reason to slow down for ten [...]

  • How to Choose Healthy Koi: A Responsible Buyer’s Guide

    Choosing koi responsibly means looking beyond the brightest pattern in the sales vat. A suitable koi should be healthy, structurally sound, appropriate for your pond and bought from a seller [...]

  • A serene koi pond with crystal-clear water, vibrant koi, lush aquatic plants, and a small aeration fountain, showcasing ideal pond maintenance and natural beauty.

    What to Do When You Inherit a Koi Pond

    Inheriting a koi pond is an exciting, yet often overwhelming experience. What to Do When You Inherit a Koi Pond? These ponds offer a unique glimpse into a beautiful and [...]

  • That Pond Guy carrying out professional pond cleaning and maintenance

    Koi Pond Maintenance: Daily, Weekly and Seasonal Guide

    Good koi pond maintenance is not an annual drain and scrub. It is a calm, repeatable routine that removes waste while protecting the biological filter and avoiding sudden changes in [...]

  • Calculating Pond Water Volume

    Knowing your pond's real water volume is not just useful for choosing equipment. It is essential whenever a treatment, dechlorinator, medication, salt dose or water change is calculated from litres [...]

  • Evolution Aqua Nexus koi pond filtration system with pump and UV clarifier

    Choosing the Right Koi Pond Equipment

    The right koi pond equipment is not the longest shopping list or the largest number printed on a box. It is a complete hydraulic and biological system sized around the [...]

  • Keeping Your Koi Cool for the Summer

    Hot weather does not automatically mean a koi pond is in danger, but prolonged warmth reduces the margin for error. Warm water holds less dissolved oxygen while koi, filter bacteria [...]

  • How to Remove Algae from Your Pond

    “Pond algae” is not one single problem. Green water is caused by microscopic algae suspended through the water; blanket weed forms long filamentous strands; surface scum may be algae, duckweed, [...]

  • NT Labs PondLab water test kit used to check koi pond water quality

    Ideal Koi Pond Water Conditions: A Practical UK Guide

    Ideal koi pond water is not water that hits one “perfect” number. It is clean, oxygenated and biologically stable water whose important parameters are measured, understood and kept within a [...]

  • Healthy koi swimming in a clear garden pond maintained by That Pond Guy

    Keeping Koi Healthy: A Practical UK Care Guide

    Healthy koi are not produced by a cupboard full of treatments. They are produced by stable water, reliable filtration, plenty of oxygen, sensible feeding and an owner who notices small [...]

  • Ultimate guide to pond maintenance showing a clear, healthy garden pond with professional filtration and planting

    The Ultimate Guide to Pond Maintenance

    Proper pond maintenance is essential if you want your pond to remain healthy, clear, and easy to manage throughout the year. Whether you own a small garden pond, a koi [...]