My little work in progress

[kyryah]

I am working on my patio pond. I still have work to do, I am going to pile more rocks around it to cover the sides of the liner and add some stability. I need a new filter pump, the one I had died so I am using a smaller one for now so that my filtration was not a total loss. There are not fish yet, so it is working fine. I also need to get the lights hung over it, as it does not get any natural sunlight.

I also decided to take the cement tub and turn it into a planter for some marginal plants. I may add more smaller pots around the front in the future, I have some window boxes that could be used too.

I have guppy grass, red foot floater, water lettuce, anacharis, pennywort and lilies, and a cattail and two arrowhead plants.

What do you think so far?

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Kristina

[jackiomy]

IMO you should probably get bricks of some sort to build an enclosure around the tub. If that is one of the preformed ponds I am afraid that you might be looking at a collapse somewhere down the line.

[kyryah]

The rocks should be enough once I get all of them piled up there, I am putting more around it than you think, lol. I have used one of these for years to keep turtles in above ground and never had a collapse. The end of the pond with the shallower shelves are already blocked up with bricks.

Kristina

[kyryah]

I am hoping to start working on the cement tub tomorrow. I have decided to make it into a bog type overflow, with water going in one end and out the other. I will make a false bottom out of egg crate and pvc.

Kristina

[fballguy]

Very nice! Do you plan on having fish?

[kyryah]

Yup, probably a school of minnows and a couple of fanttails, not too many because I will have to overwinter them.

Kristina

[Sunshinessmile]

wow! that great! im excited to see what it will look like with all the rocks piled up! i love rock design

[jackiomy]

I didn't mean to criticize, we had one of ours bend in the middle and spill almost all the water out. But I think one of the dogs or maybe a racoon helped it along.

[PallasAthena]

Neat! I love all the plants! Makes me want to add another to my pond. I can't wait to see finished pics.

Where do you get those pretty rocks?

[kyryah]

One of the benefits of living in MI, lol, they are all over :) Being a farm girl more or less I can get them out of the farmer's rock piles for nothing. Otherwise they charge a premium for the darn things :D

Kristina

[kyryah]

I didn't mean to criticize, we had one of ours bend in the middle and spill almost all the water out. But I think one of the dogs or maybe a racoon helped it along.

Not a problem :) The rocks are going to go out quite a ways and up to the rim of the pond, it would take quite a bit to move all of them. I think the support will be adequate.

Kristina

[kyryah]

Found some more free rocks on craigslist today, going to pick them up tomorrow, whoo hoo! lol

Kristina