Water Gardening: How many ponders are out there ?? List your names - Update!, 1 by dax080

dax080 wrote:
Hi, - I've been a DG member for a year, but overlooked this thread until today. I'm a fairly new, but passionate ponder - having built my ponds and stream in May, 2005. My brothers and I built it with 45 EPDM liner. The falls is 7' high and 4' wide, and was built with the soil taken from the bottom pond. The top pond is 8' by 10', and 2 feet deep. It spills into a stream that is 65' long and 5' wide, with 3 levels so that when the pump is turned off, each level is an independent unit. The stream turns at a 45 degree angle at about the half way mark, and is about 6" deep except for the water holding depression just under each falls. The bottom pond is 18' in diameter and has three levels, with the deepest at 4'. All together the feature equals 7,000 gallons. There are two pumps - one for the falls - 3,600 gph, and one for the bottom pond and streams - 5,000 gph. I have the largest savio skimmer/filter with two UV filters. I have about 60 goldfish (I plan to give away about 50 of them this year) and 8 koi, which are just one year old. The largest is about 1 foot long. I must say that I LOVE my pond - don't know what I ever did before - I could just sit and commune with nature forever, but, of course, I spend most of my time puttering, cleaning, and maintaining. Here are five pictures from last year -
First, the top falls in May 2006.