***The Pond Discussion Thread****

I have one job that needs doing at the end...Notice Moss rock? Well I found this in the garden under a clump of hedges...Apparantly what I can do is Take a bit of moss of it, put it in my magimix blender with some natural yogurt and paint the surrounding rocks with it and VOILA! Mossy rocks...

Ageing the waterfalls very quickly! :D

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Looking amazing, if I have the space in my garden I'd love to do something similar.

What exactly did you do with the expanding foam? I'm guessing a bed of foam with the rocks placed slightly squished into it so water can't go under the rocks and is forced to flow over them and give the nice waterfall and cascading?
 
valve90210 said:
Looking amazing, if I have the space in my garden I'd love to do something similar.

What exactly did you do with the expanding foam? I'm guessing a bed of foam with the rocks placed slightly squished into it so water can't go under the rocks and is forced to flow over them and give the nice waterfall and cascading?
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Cheers

Exactly that, you fill the voids in with foam meaning the water is forced forwards not behind the rocks.

I've done some projects but this has been , by far, the most Epic !

Once you start you don't realise just how much is involved. :)
 
Hedge said:
Thats one hell of a pond.

Do you mind giving a general idea of how much a project like this costs? We want a pond ourselves but it will be more modest than that lake youve dug :D
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I've probably spent about £1100

The liner was the biggest cost EPDM think it was £550

Filter was £239

Pump was £120

The plants I got for 50 p each so around 40 quid....

Valve-£29

Other bits...40mm flexi pipe , O rings...stuff

Rocks were £70

Chuffed to bits with it...:D

EDIT: with Top soil and underlay it probably creeped to around £1300
 
That's a very nice filter easyrider, I'm guessing no uv unit? Are you planning to put one on?

The pond looks stunning so far.
 
Aero said:
That's a very nice filter easyrider, I'm guessing no uv unit? Are you planning to put one on?

The pond looks stunning so far.
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Thanks mate,

No UV at the moment, But If I get Algae problems when the weather warms up I can add one...:)

I got the filter as now I can add more fish, it gives me options. Plus I didnt want to be pumping dirty water down the waterfall making a cloggly mess..
 
easyrider said:
I've probably spent about £1100

The liner was the biggest cost EPDM think it was £550

Filter was £239

Pump was £120

The plants I got for 50 p each so around 40 quid....

Valve-£29

Other bits...40mm flexi pipe , O rings...stuff

Rocks were £70

Chuffed to bits with it...:D

EDIT: with Top soil and underlay it probably creeped to around £1300
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I noticed you used a digger, is this yours or was it a freebie to use?
I wouldn't want to dig that by hand :eek: so would factor this in the cost.
 
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The filter has been running now for around 3 weeks.

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The glass on the right was week 2

The glass on the left week 3

Looks like I'm getting tannin build up. Do you think its worth adding some Activated Carbon to my filter outlet going into the waterfall reservoir?
 
I don't know about your particular filter but it takes a month or so I believe before all your biological filters mature so it's a fairly slow process. It's the bacteria that eat all the rubbish in the water to clean it up. That's why you should never wash biological filters out with tap water because it'll kill them and set you back to square one, hence why they recommend using a bucket of pond water :).

It looks like it's getting cleaner from your photos though.



I've a pond with lots of fish in and upgraded to a proper filter a few months back. With my old filter the water was murky and horrid but now I can see right to the bottom of the pond.. and I've been lazy and not cleaned the filters for a few weeks either! KC Fibreglass Combo 12000 multi-bay filter (very nice owner - he personally dropped it of after a delay, and it's cheaper than the Kockney Koi alternative too). I then filled the first chamber with Black Knight Pond Filter Brushes to remove solids, the second with Jap Mating as a high-surface area biological filter and Alphagrog (inside onion sacks so it's easy to remove) as a final high-surface area / polishing filter.

I also ran a cheap Jebao uv filter for a few months to clear up any green algae which seemed to help. I've a Jebao pump and they seem to great quality for the price to be fair.
 
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