Posts Tagged ‘Pond’

Hello,
I have a very small pond, maybe 70 gallons. . . It is in the middle of our patio and has 3 large waterfalls going into it with a small stream with another 3 small waterfalls. . .
To help keep it clean, I am putting tube socks over the intake valves on the pumps. . . While we never plotted on any wild life, a frog went in, and we want to make sure he is healthy.
The water gets a small stinky because he eats a ton. . . I am considering putting in some plants. Will this make the water dirtier or cleaner? I have been changing the water weekly and adding some of the stuff from my aquarium to de-chlorinate it. .
Are Plants a excellent or terrible thought?

The pond is 6ft x 10ft x 5ft deep with a ancient filter gravity fed

Let us say that you have chose to build a pond in your back garden and it seems simple enough, all you need to do is dig a hole and fill it with water. Well, not quite, there are a lot of things involved and it needs plotting before building a pond in your back garden, also you will have to reckon about maintenance. If the pond is too close to your home water infiltration can harm the foundation of your home. You need to be careful. What about pond filters and pond pumps which are required if you want to keep your pond clean? Many people who are looking for a pond pump will see that pond pumps are usually divided in two categories: external pond pumps and submersible pond pumps. You will need some vital lake supplies when you choose to build a lake in your back yard. At Garden GB Limited you can buy pond pumps, pond filters or pond lights for this purpose. External pond pumps are required for supplying water for large water features like a large fountain or waterfall. No matter if your pond will need an external pump or submersible pump, the main rule for selecting the appropriate size is the same, to have enough power to circulate the water from the system. Make sure your pond or lake is practical. You do not want to have it full of cool things, just to make it look incredible, make a pond or a lake, but be sure to use your pond supplies, pond filters, pond pumps and or pond supplies and pond pumps. If you have an empty garden to play with, let us say that you delight in plants and you choose to make a garden. This is where the fun starts. You will need to find out how you want your garden to look like. At Garden GB Limited you can choose to decorate your garden as you want, you can add garden lights and filters also ornamental urns, terracotta planters and many other water features so you can make it unique and relaxing. You can also choose to include pond lights and garden lights in your modern garden. So if you want to take out the rubbish at night or to play with your pet, you might like to light the walkways around your house and garage with garden lights. All of these are fantastic reasons to invest in garden lights. Now after you have thought of everything, what will you do with the rest of your garden, you cannot just leave it as it is if you have a cool pond right in the middle, you should plant a few trees, a few flowers and make it look like a sort of getaway, so that when you get home after work you can take a drink outside next to your pond and listen to the water as it passes through your pond pump, is this fantastic or what?Take your time and choose wisely because this relaxing place will become your part of heaven.

Do you waste your money on lottery tickets? Feed your hard earned money to the one-armed bandits in the casinos? Drive without a seat belt? Then a pond liner is for you. You obviously like taking chances and are not too concerned about the outcome. Well, when someone spends thousands of dollars on a liner pond, they are playing the odds. Will their liner pond leak or not. From my 26 years experience in the pond business, I can assure you that the odds are not in your favor. This is an article the liner pond dudes don’t want you to read. If you weren’t giving my industry such a terrible name, there would be no need for this writing.

The liner pond gurus such as the “Liner messiah” with his own magazine and catalogue, recruits unsuspecting followers with a “Build a Liner Pond Day”, and shows how simple it is to get something for next to nothing. Here’s what these liner pond guys do:

• Lay out the pond with a garden hose

• Remove the sod and dig the hole

• Drop in our guaranteed liner

• Fill with water

• Drop in our pump

• Run our pipe

• Throw a piece of our liner on the pile of discarded dirt

• Stick in our filter

• Cover pile of dirt with loose rock

• Turn on our pump

• Throw in your fish

• Collect your money and split.

Does this sound a bit harsh on the pond liner industry? Well, here’s “the rest of the tale. ”I’m going to add a few more items that the liner pond guys omitted:

• Ground squirrels

• Gophers

• Mice

• Rats

• Chipmunks

• Moose

• Sharp rocks

• Heavy rocks

• Falling rocks

• Sharp objects

• Tree roots

• Plant & weed roots

• Leaky drain seal

• Leaky skimmer seal

• Kids with sharp or pointed objects

Did the liner pond guy offer you a discount if any of the above occurred in your pond? Here is what you would have had to do if any of them happened in your newly-built liner pond (and I know the Liner Guy didn’t give you this list):

• Take out the fish

• Turn off the pump

• Take out the loose rock (hope you didn’t use too many)

• Pump out the pond

• Take out the pump

• Take out the liner

• Spread out the liner on the lawn

• Clean off the dirt and algae

• Inspect every square inch of the liner for holes.

(Sure, there are small cuts, but if you assume you’ve fixed the problem after patching a hole, place everything back and then learn there was more than one hole, you might be a tad irritated. Remember this rule of thumb: one pinhole and you can lose five gallons of water every 24 hours!)

• Patch the hole or holes

• Repeat the whole process over again, only in reverse.

Hey, sound familiar? It should, with the exception of laying out the garden hose and digging a hole, you have just built another water feature!

If it had been done the professional way to start with, all this time to tear it apart and place it back together could have been used to design and build another permanent project with steel and concrete.

Can you imagine if this scenario was referring to a project involving large boulders that were set in place with heavy equipment such as an end loader or crane? Not to mention lawn sprinklers, flower gardens, trees and shrubs that were growing there, and sidewalks and hardscapes installed! It can cost 30% more to tear out a liner pond and replace it with a professional one made with rebar and concrete. Where as if they had built a professional waterfall and pond in the first place it would have only cost about 20% more. Does the term pennywise and pound foolish mean anything to you?

Look before you leap and research before you weep. Pleased koi, peace and joy.

The plasic outlet which my hose attaches to on my new pond filter just broke and i need advice on how to fix it. I have the piece that broke off and i reckon i can reatach it but, i’m not sure what is the best product for this job. It will have alot of water running through it so i need it to be water tight. Please if anyone know how to bond the broken piece back together so i can still use it i would appriciate the help.