[Tom C]

Akai-San asked for a little info on our pond. Here's a little info for you. The pond took 18 months from start to where it is today. I still have just a little more work to do on it.

The pond is 6' 7" deep, and is 21' 11" long. The center of the pond is 7' 10" wide and each outer loop is 10' 3" wide. The pond has two Nexus 300 filters for filtration at this time, and a bead filter on one of the skimmers. We have 4 PerformancePro Artesian water pumps running the pond. Most are throttle back at this time. The pond has 2 bottom drain to it, and they are the ones Sugar Loaf Koi makes with diffusers. Each drain is dished to the drain. Each diffuser is powered by a Airtech 80 lpm air pump. Then I have a Airtech 120 lpm air pump for each of the Nexus units. The Nexus units have 250 liters of media in each one. This should give us enough filtration for an 18,000 gallon pond. The pond has two skimmers and one is hooked up to a Zapp Pure UV-10 for the UV light on the pond. We used a total of 63' of 4" pipe for the two bottom drains and another 386' of 2" pipe for the skimmers and all of the TPR returns.

Like I said the pond is just a little over 9,000 US gallon. We did use a water meter when filling the pond. The reading we got off of it was 9,012 gallon.

The pond was build as a formal type pond. I do like how it turned out. If I was to do anything different I would have maybe added a waterfall with a waterfall bypass right under it. I would have also maybe moved the skimmers to the middle front and back side of the pond. I also maybe would have done one water pump for the two skimmers. I did two pumps, one for each skimmer. If it gets to be to much I can still change this.

I still have some more work to do on the filter house. I need to clean up some of the pipe work and add another bead filter to the other skimmer. I'm also planning on doing some art work on the inside walls of it. We might even add a heater to the pond down the line. This would be only used to stable with temp of the water.

This whole project was made possible with a lot of technical help from Steve Childers, Tom Lansing, and Jim Reilly.


Tom