I finally started my pond

[bindian]

Hope you get some rain soon!!!!! It's starting to look like we're in for a long, hot summer this year.

Eddie

Eddie,
Yeah, if it doesn't rain soon, I will have to add a longer rope to the PVC pipe feeding ring floating in front of the pier/deck.

I let the last of the slack out yesterday morning on the existing rope!
hugs, Brandi

 

[scoutcub]

My pond is down now about 5 feet. In the photo, Booger is on a ledge about 3-4 feet down trying to catch frogs. We need rain, but if it does not come soon and the pond level goes down another foot or so, I plan on expanding the shallow end of the pond and decreasing the slope.
hugs, Brandi

Brandi -

I've just read the last few pages, including the finished pond and dock, beautiful pond/setting!
Just curious, did you add something in the water to get this color, or just water/soil type? I have a similar size pond that was created after strip mining, and it has a very unwelcome color......


Frank

 

[bindian]

Brandi -

I've just read the last few pages, including the finished pond and dock, beautiful pond/setting!
Just curious, did you add something in the water to get this color, or just water/soil type? I have a similar size pond that was created after strip mining, and it has a very unwelcome color......


Frank

Frank,
Thanks! The pond is a natural muddy to a muddy/clear color. I added the blue pond dye to help with algae. It is the stuff TSC sales by the gallon. I add about 7 ounces at a time. It could go to a deep blue, but I am leery of doing that after killing all my blue cats last year. Now that the level is low, I am hesitate to add more dye.

I also use cornmeal in the water.:thumbsup: These two items keep the algae at bay.
hugs, Brandi

 

[scoutcub]

Frank,
Thanks! The pond is a natural muddy to a muddy/clear color. I added the blue pond dye to help with algae. It is the stuff TSC sales by the gallon. I add about 7 ounces at a time. It could go to a deep blue, but I am leery of doing that after killing all my blue cats last year. Now that the level is low, I am hesitate to add more dye.

I also use cornmeal in the water.:thumbsup: These two items keep the algae at bay.
hugs, Brandi

OK, thanks! I didn't know TSC carried that stuff. Think I'll try it out on my and my Dad's ponds. I've also heard that throwing chunks of drywall will clear up water, but has a bad side effect....now I can't remember what!

Frank

 

[bindian]

OK, thanks! I didn't know TSC carried that stuff. Think I'll try it out on my and my Dad's ponds. I've also heard that throwing chunks of drywall will clear up water, but has a bad side effect....now I can't remember what!

Frank

I heard the drywall can make it smell funny.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Since we are in an "exceptional" drought, my pond level was low enough to move my fish motel and "plant" a new pallet for fathead minnow spawning. The pond was down over 6 feet now, but right after I took these photos today, it came a down pour and raised it about a foot and a half.................with just 1.62 inches of rain. It is so dry here, nothing soaked in and everything ran off.
hugs, Brandi

 

[tony Cecil]

Is that the natural color of the water? even though it is low.....I think the drought is over here in S C , but this is the second year with very little rain after March....and really hot earlier than normal....Tony ps I only ask asI think you put some sort of chemical in the water, and it killed the catfish??

 

[bindian]

Is that the natural color of the water? even though it is low.....I think the drought is over here in S C , but this is the second year with very little rain after March....and really hot earlier than normal....Tony ps I only ask asI think you put some sort of chemical in the water, and it killed the catfish??

Tony,
I am using Aquashade as a color filter to keep sunlight from the algae. That and Cornmeal is all I use now to combat algae blooms. I am slowly increasing the amount to get a blue shade.

I used too much Algaecide and killed all my Blue Catfish a year or so ago.

We got another 1/2 inch of rain today. That still puts us about 16 inches short (since last fall) of our normal rainfall.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I found a good "before" photo of the pond with my daughter and her new to her truck back in 2008, a year before I started on the pond. So here is a before and an after photo of the pond.
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

Nice before and after pics!!!!! If fits in there like it's always been there and looks very natural. You did a great job of it.

Eddie