spoon Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Nearly 5 years ago I purchased my first house, one of the first things I did was dream of having a pond. The pond came up at the right time at an unbelievably low price from friends. It's a custom built fibreglass pond quite large (couldn't get it up driveway on trailer) it originally had a large water fall to match but the original owner decided to keep that part. Looking at the hole I was going to have to dig and how accurate I needed to get it to fit the contours, I thought bugger that and flattened off a site and infilled around the pond making it raised slightly instead. I ended up taking 20-30cm off the edge of the pond with a jigsaw so it would comply with local council rules concerning fencing. Had all the river rocks already in a another part of the garden and over a few years planted it slowly with a semi Japanese theme. I also built a small waterfall. I don't know how many fish I have in there but a couple of them are original fish from my goldfish tanks years ago in the forum, returned by friends that I had given them to. Here are photos of progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 fishyNZ, Silverdollarboy2 and Caryl 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJWooble Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Love the planting, very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Nice ghostfish in the first pic. spoon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Haha, it's a reflection of clouds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Looking good. How deep is it now? If it has no shade you may have trouble with algae and over-heating in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Maybe 45cm in deepest part, it gets the morning sun but is shaded during most of the day so haven't had to much algae problems. There are a lot of plants in there too and a 12000lph pump and pondmate filter so it all helps Caryl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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