Our Ponds

[cheesy feet]

Last summer i took the project on of referbishing an old concreate mess of a pond.I had to relay all the concrete slabs(with the occasional help of my muml), lay the lino ,underlay and everything but it was worth it Neverthelsss i gotta say using a slegde hammer & crowbar on it was pretty fun 8) The part i find most fun is cleaning out the filter every 2 weeks when i go to visit tho lol(pump usually gets clogged with leaves from bushes)

It was stocked with 6 goldfish but these were already ill when given to us (by a relative) with abseces and god knows what else.'Amazingly' every fish in his pond was fine .Anway i have moved all ill fish out into the natural ponds (muddy bottom, merky water but massive!) at the front of my mums (this concrete pond is also round my mums) house to see if they can survive (i was treating them to no effects).The pond atm has 1 small koi and 2x goldfish and is filtered by the smallest, or second smallest green genie filter with a UV.I think i made it out to be 1200 gallons.It's just under 2ft deep so not very good for the winter but it wasn't very harsh this winter so no probs.It's completely shaded by plants which means no algae aswell!

I'll get some pics of the 12000 gallon pond if it's sunny tommorow when all the fish are up and feeding

O and the water is murky there because we had been refilling it with freshwater to get rid of the fish illness (hopefully) + it was the day i cleaned the filter lol.

If you look very closely you can see the whiter coloured concrete around all the slabs which i smashed up and relayed

 

[adamgreen240]

nice pond


wel done
adam

 

[paul_219]

Very nice pond u got.

 

[kewskills]

you did a nice job there looking good

 

[stang1]

Great job!
When you popping round to do mine?

 

[cheesy feet]

Very nice pond u got.

you did a nice job there looking good

Great job!
When you popping round to do mine?

Thanks!....^lol

O yeh i will get soem pics of the beast pond this week lol.

 

[FishHobbyist1564]

thats a beautiful setting and any goldfish would be glad to live there!

 

[Peter!]

We had a pond, in a figure of eight shape. Was about 5-6ft long and about 3 foot wide. We looked after my uncles fish in it, had VERY cloudy water, was a pain to clean the filter but now my uncle has buolt a pond in his new house he has had the fish back in his above ground crystal clear pond It is really cool.
Shame the sturgeon died though

 

[cheesy feet]

Sorry keep forgetting to post pics of the big one.Have soem in a sec!

 

[Iron Man]

I like the square ponds better than the round ones. It reminds me of my grandma's old house. She lived in a historic part of our capital city and there was a square goldfish pond that took up the whole front yard on her lot. Very unique and haven't seen anything like it since but like I said yours reminds me of it.

 

[cheesy feet]

I got them on the 29th but forgot to post...Again!
Finally, Here.The little grey bit at the bottom of the picture is the shed i'm standing on lmao.

.Over grown and green haha, get some of the fishies sometime!

 

[kewskills]

nice been waiting a while for the pics, need more especially the fish, looks cool though

 

[cheesy feet]

I got some pics of fish, put up later!

 

[cheesy feet]

Pretty koi

Well you can see how murky water is (basically 6 inches in and you can't see anything!) but when it gets really hot all the fish just bask in the warm.Theres hundreds of little brown babies and gold/blakc goldfish + a few white goldfish and orange ones !The big orange fish i posted alot of was a golden awf (i think, is atleast 4 years old).There is 2 golden koi, 1 random coloured 1 and a big gohst one, they came up alot unfortunately as soon as i got the phone back out they woudl dive back down.We bought them last year.

 

[mcdanielnc89]

very nice.. this is interesting!