Paul_MTS
MAD
We're finally planning my dream pond!
A litle different from what I first wanted being a seperate semi raised pond. But what we're doing is taking out the fibre glass pond on the lower level and digging out about a 12x7 pond in a kidney shape, coming down to about 4ft wide at the nearest end, I'm thinking of going about 3ft deep.
this has all happened because we started having problems with the old filtration (which was crap basically) unfortunately we had a few fish die because of it. So i got us a Ecopower 9000 and a Aquamax 4000 pump to get the job done.
I fitted it up had it running and over night we lost alot of water because of a blockage in the water fall.
so in a rush job the top pond (we have 2 ponds flowing into each other) was emptied out all fih dumped in the bottom pond with the filter running double time!. We lined the top pond added another row of bricks on top for a bit more depth, although haven't had suitable weather to put the topping stones back on.
Hopefully there will be weather for dad to finish it over the weekend so we can get them running again properly.
I'm aiming for just under 2000 gallons on the new pond which will have a Eco power 9000 running for the top pond and the flow that goes to the top pond then I will have a Clover leaf F20 D running on the bottom pond.
The only problem being I bought the Aquamax 4000 thinking we were building a seperate pond now there both together I'm not sure if I would of been better off going for the 6000 now as with the extra depth and volume it's got to do a bit more work.
then after all thats done i can finally have my albino sturgeon!
well hope I didn't bore you too much, naturally i'll have progress pics. oh and i bought a 961gallon swimming pool to house all the fish when we get to work on it.
A litle different from what I first wanted being a seperate semi raised pond. But what we're doing is taking out the fibre glass pond on the lower level and digging out about a 12x7 pond in a kidney shape, coming down to about 4ft wide at the nearest end, I'm thinking of going about 3ft deep.
this has all happened because we started having problems with the old filtration (which was crap basically) unfortunately we had a few fish die because of it. So i got us a Ecopower 9000 and a Aquamax 4000 pump to get the job done.
I fitted it up had it running and over night we lost alot of water because of a blockage in the water fall.
so in a rush job the top pond (we have 2 ponds flowing into each other) was emptied out all fih dumped in the bottom pond with the filter running double time!. We lined the top pond added another row of bricks on top for a bit more depth, although haven't had suitable weather to put the topping stones back on.
Hopefully there will be weather for dad to finish it over the weekend so we can get them running again properly.
I'm aiming for just under 2000 gallons on the new pond which will have a Eco power 9000 running for the top pond and the flow that goes to the top pond then I will have a Clover leaf F20 D running on the bottom pond.
The only problem being I bought the Aquamax 4000 thinking we were building a seperate pond now there both together I'm not sure if I would of been better off going for the 6000 now as with the extra depth and volume it's got to do a bit more work.
then after all thats done i can finally have my albino sturgeon!
well hope I didn't bore you too much, naturally i'll have progress pics. oh and i bought a 961gallon swimming pool to house all the fish when we get to work on it.
