Awesome ponds! I have 1 30 gallon pond and 1 150 gallon pond, currently with just a bunch of rotting leaves and bugs, but when it warms up I hope I am planning on installing a waterfall, add some fish, plant it up a bit, etc..., and hopefully it will be as georgous as all of yours! I love those frogs (or are they toads?) red, I wish I had some around my pond, what kind are those?
Who has a pond?
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Nice!I have a 1500 gallon Koi Pond but the koi are shy in this picture. I'll try to include the koi and the waterfalls in future photos(Wilmington, Ohio).
Here are a few pictures of my pond, also. They are a few years old, and it is definitely going to get a full rework this Spring. Then I have to find a new source for plants. The garden center I used to go to closed up shop a couple years ago. *sigh*
In 1999, right after it was finished:
And a couple from a few years ago:
It's not quite that nice looking right now- well, ok, it's winter, so for sure not. LOL But I let it go a bit wild for a couple years. I'm going to make it better again this year.
In 1999, right after it was finished:
And a couple from a few years ago:
It's not quite that nice looking right now- well, ok, it's winter, so for sure not. LOL But I let it go a bit wild for a couple years. I'm going to make it better again this year.
How many gallons is your pond IrishMac?
- I like things wild looking, its usually better for nature =]
Umm, let's see: It's about 5x7 and 18 or so inches deep. Wanted to go deeper, but we encountered the Rock of Gibraltar at that depth when we were digging it and that was that! So, about 400 gallons or so, if my math is right (and that's questionable!). Yeah, too small for the koi- he's not in there anymore. Only goldies, now.
I just recently took winter photos of the pond and posted them on my website, I attached one to the forum but on the webpage there are quite a few more, Please visit!
http://rosedrr.googlepages.com/pondphotos
http://rosedrr.googlepages.com/pondphotos
Eastern American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus americanus). They live in your area too, Animallove.
Lots of beautiful ponds in this thread! I'm renting now, but I hope someday to own a home and some land, and when that day comes there will be some excavation happening!
We are building a new house and there im planning an outdoor community fish pond, I had one before of 300gal in an oval shape japanese garden style. We will end up contruction of our house in a year. The new pond wil be about 800gal+ it will have two divisions one for larger fish and the other for smaller fish, the space in this pond will let me keep different species that will be impossible to keep in an glass indoor aquarium due to space. This pond wil have Heaters because i plan to keep like I succesfully did in my old house, various species of fish. Arowana, lungfish, cichlids (south american the non aggresive type), stingrays, plecostomus and on the other side angelfish, african clawed frogs, snails, etc
The advantage of doing this in succesfull manner as I did before untill I moved out, is that here in Mexico City we dont have snow cold winters or excesive heat thus having lows at 5 degrees Celcius in Winter and 27 degrees celcius in summer, sometimes 30C. yet at most of the year the temp is at 18C approx.
I know most outdoor ponds have kois, but keeping different species is incredible, yet you have to have the right space, location (shade and sun), and you can enjoy those magnificent fish that most of us keep under a glass aquarium, in a more natural way. Diffrent Species of fish that are not compatible on a glass aquarium are compatible in an outdoor heated pond, requiered you have the knowledge and sufficient care. My last pond of this type had a neutral ph, a temperature of 25C that did vary a little from day to night, but not enough to cause stress to my fish.
As I progress in this I will inform of more details and specs.
The advantage of doing this in succesfull manner as I did before untill I moved out, is that here in Mexico City we dont have snow cold winters or excesive heat thus having lows at 5 degrees Celcius in Winter and 27 degrees celcius in summer, sometimes 30C. yet at most of the year the temp is at 18C approx.
I know most outdoor ponds have kois, but keeping different species is incredible, yet you have to have the right space, location (shade and sun), and you can enjoy those magnificent fish that most of us keep under a glass aquarium, in a more natural way. Diffrent Species of fish that are not compatible on a glass aquarium are compatible in an outdoor heated pond, requiered you have the knowledge and sufficient care. My last pond of this type had a neutral ph, a temperature of 25C that did vary a little from day to night, but not enough to cause stress to my fish.
As I progress in this I will inform of more details and specs.
