Water Gardening: Raised pond built with cut stones, 0 by EMT_Gardener

EMT_Gardener wrote:
I just became a subscriber to Dave's Garden yesterday so had to catch up on the wealth of pond information everyone has. We built our above ground pond last year and we love it. I was surprised at how much it looks like FrillyLily's pond! We did the same thing, digging a shelf for pond plants that is about 16 inches deep, then 3 1/2 to 4 feet deep in the middle. We used cement blocks for the actual pond, using a pad and then heavy rubber liner. We used rebar and poured cement into the blocks to make sure nothing would push out when the water was added. Then we filled the space between the pond's edge and the block with dirt and put pond gravel on top of that.

I had a submersible pump last year, but this year are going to try an external pump with a uv light and some sort of bio filter. Last year we just couldn't seem to get rid of the 'green' so hope our new set-up will work. If any of you have any advice or pics on how to conceal the external pump I would like to get some ideas. My pond is 1,500 gallon pond. Also, we are going to try a home made filter so appreciated the ideas already posted. If anyone else has ideas for a filter for my size of pond it would be appreciated!