I am on my third pond! Which I can't stop thinking of ways to make a change for the better, and better, and better. It's not even all that now! The first pond was around a 1000 gallons. You know, the kind with the bridge and decorations over and around it. My second one was about 3500 gallons which was surround by a Japanese deck on three sides of the pond. We moved from there, and built the new one at approx. 5500 gallons. To get rid of my urge to work on my pond, I help and encourage other people to build ponds. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?