Water Gardening: Info on Pond Skimmers and Biofalls Filters please., 1 by bedouin

bedouin wrote:
BeaHive, thats a tutorial in its own right! Thank you very much. Ive printed it out, of course!!!

I've had my pond for 3 years. I have a bell fountain 7/24 with the pump sitting in the black rectangular bio-filter box sold at Home Depot. So mine has been 'very basic'. By and large, I've not had any problems with it, plants are all healthy and fish too, - what ever is left every time I replenish with goldfish since the naughty heron thinks breakfast, lunch, hors d'ouvres and dinner is supplied for him alone! All of the above which you have, is certainly going to be a learning process! Since I've already dug the extension and raised the soil for the waterfall, I'd better hurry up and educate myself! Thought I'd just pop a pvc connected to a hose at the top for the waterfall and ensure my pump was large enough to pipe the water up from the pond! Whew! If I'm going to do it, I'd better do it PROPERLY! Your information is very clear, thanks for taking the time to detail it. I'm scratching my head and wondering where to start as I want it up and running by the end of this month!

The photo below show the extension progress. I plan to get the plants etc out when I've completed the digging and re-aligning. Then remove the pond liner & rubber , use the excess sand to highten the waterfall area and lay down the new materials. (did not think of putting sand down as a base, but I think it makes a lot of sense so will add that). (Hope DH will lend a hand....) The centre of my pond is a deeper than the plant shelf so the depth will be continued into the new area gradually rising for a bog area as you mentioned. (Still trying to come up with an idea to make that work. Just to explain why there is a centre 'wall' between the new area and the pond!