Water Gardening: On the shady side of the fish pool, 1 by baagrant

baagrant wrote:
To make our ripple-sprayer we attached a garden hose to the outlet of one of our filters. We took an end cap off a garden soaker hose and drilled several holes into the end cap. (Actually we experimented with several size holes in several different end caps and selected the one we liked best). We found a stone with a drill hole through it at our local rock yard (He said these are rejects since they have the bore holes in them! It was absolutely perfect. We had to just file down the end cap just a bit to get a tight but removable fit). We positioned the water to enter the pond horizontally.

Both the intake and the filter need cleaning so the spray is not going out as far as it normally does, but the picture should give you an idea. We've had our fish pool since the early 90s. Dug out two tree stumps, put in black, 4ml-construction plastic folded four times, placed rock we had collected around the edges and it has worked well with a little tweeking as the years have passed and we've learned from our mistakes (ie. need for more oxygenation.)

Unfortunately, the increased water movement hasn't been enjoyed by the lotus. I think it may have given up the ghost last year.