Bog Pond For a Bigger Pond Project

Hello,
With the warm weather starting today, I got the itch to do some outdoor landscaping. I am redoing the area around our larger pond, and I am installing a smaller bog pond. The bog pond will be functional as well as attractive. It will be heavily planted with some of my aquarium plants that grow well, as well as seeded with daphnia. This will create a natural filter to help fend off the greenwater we have had in years past. I will post pics either today or whenever I get around to plugging my camera in ^_^. Before Pictures!

NorthcoastGirl said:

Bog ponds are so awesome. They attract so many cool critters! I was thinking of creating a vernal pool in a corner of my yard to help boost the amphibian population. Vernal pools are similar to bog ponds, but more temporary. =)

Definitely keep us posted on the progress. Don't forget the flowers! Maybe some pretty yellow and blue flag iris?

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Those sound great! It was kinda just randomly I wanted to ehance our pond set up and then I thought a bog pond connected to the bigger one would be great. Deffinately lots of plants.

I dug the hole to put thenpond itself in. Also working on a way to transfer water from the bog pond to th big pond. Any ideas? Will post pictures today!

frigginchi said:

Here is an idea.

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/pic/article.cfm?c=5163&articleid=2153

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That is a pretty good idea the only problem is I am using a preformed plastic pond (we had it lying around). I'm thinking about using bulkheads and a plastic garden hose valve attached to a waterfall made from PVC, pond liner and rocks. I am going to use the bog filter idea though. I think that will work well.

Okay, I am finally getting some pictures up today. I will also include pics of the area where I am hoping to install the bulkhead, circled with blue. If anyone has any ideas for what kind of bulkhead to use let me know. I used the rest of the dirt to build up around the pond, soon I will go get rocks to line around it

Today I am gonna go look at rocks with my father. Hopefully we will find something nice. As far as planning what is going in here, I'm thinking of putting blackworks in here too. Any thoughts on this?