Water Gardening: Pictures from my bottom drain addition, 0 by kandredvm

kandredvm wrote:
I'm pretty sure now that my fish are misbehaving so that I will send them somewhere else where they will have a nicer place to live. My dogs act out when I leave them alone for longer than they feel they should be- so why not the koi? The thing is, the fish AND the turtle are rescues. I'm not a collector, I have no intention of encouraging fish reproduction of any kind, I have no idea what kind of koi they even are. You all are clearly much more knowledgable and take far better care of your ponds and your fishies than I do! I suspect that the only reason mine are still alive is dumb luck.

So...about plants and ponds with plant shelves...

Carolyn22, I just found a photo of your emptied pond. Do you by any chance have more photos showing how you made the "troughs" full of pea gravel? That's what they look like to me....like a standard sort of right angle plant shelf at the top of the pond wall with a wall of rocks on the "inner" edge that keeps the gravel from dumping off the ledge and into the pond proper. Is that right?

And mothermole, you mentioned plant shelves and not being able to see where to put your plants when the pond was all muddy. Do you perchance have more photos now that it's cleared up?

Here's a photo of my little pond before the critters ate everything but some elephant ears and the yerba mansa.