When most people think of Chicago, they think of politics, the film & music industries, art, history, skyscrapers and cement. They do not think lush green neighborhoods and countless acres of forest. This video is one of many I have here to help make the point that you people need to do a little research into a city (or anything else for that mater) before making assumptions based on what you happened to see on Kolshack The Night Stalker, Blues Brothers and the Batman Movies. A surrounding garden is key to a successful pond, though we do not limit our videos to the garden directly around the pond. We love gardening as much as we enjoy fish and ponds, so we take video of our garden in its entirety. We recycle as much as possible. By this I do not mean pop cans and plastic bottles. We bury and / or burn yard waste (and bury the ashes in the garden). We also burn non-toxic paper junk mail and office shreddings, as well as the abundance of bush and tree branches. We sprinkle grass clippings into our garden. We bury the leaves that drop in the fall so that the worms can turn them into new dirt. We bury the litter from the cat boxes so that the litter can store water as a temporary reservoir and the fecal mater can be processed by the worms into new fresh soil. Also note: if you are going to bury anything like this, make sure the hole you dig is at least 2 feet deep! Also note that if you are going to burn anything -- make sure you have a legal, safe, contained fire pit and make sure you are burning only organic non-toxic wastes. Do not burn plastics, man made chemicals or anything dangerous. Most people throw all of this natural waste away not realizing that it harms the Earth turning to methane in a land fill and that they sabotage their land by removing the nutrients from it! Nature recycles the dead leaves, grass and other plant materials through the decomposition process to keep the land fertile and healthy. When you throw this stuff away, you are constantly removing fertility from the land and its not very smart!!! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nge1gw2Lrg

Velvet Red Swordtails are TROPICAL FRESH WATER FISH (Xiphophorus hellerii in family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes). A live-bearer, it is closely related to the southern platyfish or "platy" (X. maculatus) and can interbreed with it. It is native to an area of North and Central America stretching from Veracruz, Mexico, to northwestern Honduras. Show Guppies are a FRESH WATER TROPICAL FISH. They only differ from regular guppies by being more colorful, beautiful, larger, more healthy and with more elaborate fin structures and cosmetic traits -- due to the careful intervention of humans. No chemicals or other harmful elements are used in producing show guppies. (Poecilia reticulata), also known as the millionfish, is one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. It is a small member of the Poeciliidae family (females 46 centimeters (1.62.4 in) long, males 2.53.5 centimeters (1.01.4 in) long) and like all other members of the family, is live-bearing. Guppies are native to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, East Timor, Guyana, Mayotte, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela, and Vietnam. However, guppies have been introduced to many different countries on all continents, except Antarctica. Sometimes this has occurred accidentally, but most often as a means of mosquito control, the hope being that the guppies would eat the mosquito larvae slowing down the spread of malaria. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzLCCwigpg