Ive been off at a tangent with a pond recently :rolleyes:

Back on with the roadster now though :)

Oooohhh

Do show the pond pics.. Just been out and strung a load of filter brushes across the width of my settlement tank.

Bought 6 Grass Carp this morning as well to try and control that bl...y duck weeed.

TT

You must have a big pond! I seen some albino grass carp looked quite cool.

Its only small and ive built it up so the kids dont use it as a pool! Ive dug it down about 2" to try and keep the temp contant'ish

Turf out the fish and turn it into a hot tub:)

Bob

Probably similar in capacity to yours, 2000L or there abouts. And similar in design.

Give me a Mo....

TT

At my old house I built this pond to replace a small in ground pond. It was built using cinderblock clad with decking boards. I was dead pleased with this one and built a rocking upfloa gravel filter. Ignore my mate, we were doing a roof prior to selling the house..


Sold house (2007) and had to move the fish, they spend a week or two in a bathtub that I got for free and we sat at my mates house.

then they moved into a temporary pond made from 4 upturned desks with spare table tops arround it to make the structure, they stayed there for about a 8 months...



2008 I had a new garage built, landscaped the garden and then stared on my new propa pond. it was built at ground level using wooden fence posts, gravel board and a cavity back filled with concrete mix.



I was relatively happy with it but never got round to realy sorting the filtration. then in early 2011 I found the concrete was failing and the walls were bursting.

I bought 2 IBC's and the fish were transfered into one whilst I dug a hole to put the 2ND IBC in.. well that was the intention but I suffered a Hernia which put things back... September 2011 I bought a load of fake railway sleepers and also managed to get the 2nd IBC in the ground..

Spring this year I finished off, putting the sleapers round, sorting the lower nature pond and putting the original 1st IBC behind the one to act as a settlement/water bulk.

the main IBC is half under ground half above..



ignore the junk, I am still working on the filtration.

TT

I agree, shame they cost so much!

Have you tried barley extract? Seems to do the trick for me and my recent raised flower bed pond conversion!!:D With water butt filter! :D

edit oh sorry duck weed I thought you said pond weed!

tried bails for alge control and did not work.

I have no alge this year just too much duck weed..

TT

If I was not building a roadster, I think I would renovate an old car, like VW Beetle, Volvo Amazon, or Renault 4 (preferably from my birth year :) )