Natural Spring

[Wippit Guud]

Missy has a spring on her property (which happen to dump into her basement too often), and we wanted to set up a pond eventually, anyone know if using a spring to constantly replenish a pond is a bad thing? Might be a little worried about temperature...

[aquariumfishguy]

Yes, that would be my only concern. Do you know about how cold this spring water is? I know many people who use springs for a pond, but not the ornamental kind most aquarists have in mind. Springs are good for fairly large ponds. In fact, thats how some start, by naturally flowing spring water.

[Shekoi]

the temperature would be the only problem. if the pond was dug deep enough, and the spring didn't disturb the deeper parts it would be fine. :rolleyes:

[aquariumfishguy]

Well yeah but you'd still have to worry about flooding then. I mean you'd be talking about having a HUGE pond if you dont want the spring to mess with the overall temperature of the water.