jwstewar
Elite Member
Looking good Danny. I had somehow missed this original post, but I found it last night and looked at it this morning. I remember you and I had the same pond set from Wal-Mart. Looked good, but like you said couldn't keep it in the ground. We finally gave up last year and did basically what you did. Except we moved locations and took it from beside the house and made it an attraction in the wifes flower garden. Ours ended up being about 8X13. Ended up kind of squarish, but looks good done the less. We've redone our water falls 3 or 4 times to get a look we like and not have too much of a fall that causes the water to splash out - Guess I can't forget the leak we had too that required removal of the rocks and replacement.
I need to post some updated pictures of ours, but our current setup is a submersible pump with 2 outlets producing a total of 4300 GPH. One feeds the external filter (purchased), the other feeds a UV Sterilizer in turn feeding the waterfall. One problem we are having is floating debris & floating algae the submersible won't pick up. Monica joined a pond forum and did some research (sound familiar? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) and ordered a Salvio skimmer system from a guy on the Internet that everybody on that forum recommened. Should be here later this week. She even met a later on their that gave her 3 different types of plants including a garbage back full of Water Hyacinths and 5 fish. Can't remember what the fish are, but they are Koi or normal gold fish - begins with an S. We still need to get a water heater to keep some surface are open for the little fisheys this winter.
BTW, we have one of those residents too. We drained it earlier this year for cleaning. Made the frog mad. He left for a little while, but once it was refilled and operating he came back. I like him there, but my wife hates him - she is afraid he'll touch her. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I need to post some updated pictures of ours, but our current setup is a submersible pump with 2 outlets producing a total of 4300 GPH. One feeds the external filter (purchased), the other feeds a UV Sterilizer in turn feeding the waterfall. One problem we are having is floating debris & floating algae the submersible won't pick up. Monica joined a pond forum and did some research (sound familiar? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) and ordered a Salvio skimmer system from a guy on the Internet that everybody on that forum recommened. Should be here later this week. She even met a later on their that gave her 3 different types of plants including a garbage back full of Water Hyacinths and 5 fish. Can't remember what the fish are, but they are Koi or normal gold fish - begins with an S. We still need to get a water heater to keep some surface are open for the little fisheys this winter.
BTW, we have one of those residents too. We drained it earlier this year for cleaning. Made the frog mad. He left for a little while, but once it was refilled and operating he came back. I like him there, but my wife hates him - she is afraid he'll touch her. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
