Show us your pond

[RayJordan]

Here is a photo of my main pond. 9,000 gallons. Two bottom drains gravity fed two banks of vortex tanks. 1st = settlement, 2nd = DIY K1 moving bed, 3rd = Japanese mat. Skimmer to bead filter to DIY TT. Total CF of biomedia = 32. Aeration = 480 LPM.

[dubtaco]

Here go mine:

I'm a bit embarssed to show it after seeing some of the other members ponds. At the time I built it I didn't know chit and have been trying to make it better as I go (my advice to anyone going this route would be save your money and build the proper pond once, don't build a chit pond and try to fix it. Doing that cost more money and takes much more time and effort).

Anyway as it sits today:

BD and skimmer fed to --->55 gal. SC with 250 micron screen ---> sequence 4200 pump ---> 55 gal. moving bed (approx 3L of bioflow 9) ---> 200 gal. chamber with areated pvc strapping ---> and somewhere in the mix is a 40 watt UV and a bunch of areation.

Total gallons is 2,300

[powerman]

the pond is basically finished but the landscaping is not done yet...14000 gallons ....eight feet deep..two bottom drains..each feeds a set of three vortex tanks..out of the last vortex on one run water goes to an advantage 15 bead filter and 120 amp uv lite and on the other run, the water is pumped through a bakki shower with bacteria house media..my turnover is almost 10000 gallons per hour i have four below surface jets and two waterfalls...i also bought the parts for plumbing an air pump into the media vortexes..but haven't plumbed it yet...i also would like to add a heating system before winter....as far as growth rates...i don't know yet...just added fish at the end of april ...still establishing the bio filter and working out the kinks...

[Gail]

THey are all amazing..........

Miine is a love hate relationship........ongoing .........
Waiting for the ground water to dissapate.......I don;t know if it ever will.now that the neighbour has drip irrigation on his hedge on our property line! This was not in the plans a year and a half ago.this all happened this spring.....

PMan. I have slabs of rock just like you do in your Wfall.I have the same thing in mind for mine...three tiers.not a huge drop..about four feet from the first to the last.......

Will post pics toorrow.have to load them into Photobucket, then to here...its beer oclock right now

[Erns]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gail THey are all amazing.......... Miine is a love hate relationship........ongoing ......... Waiting for the ground water to dissapate.......I don;t know if it ever will.now that the neighbour has drip irrigation on his hedge on our property line! This was not in the plans a year and a half ago.this all happened this spring..... PMan. I have slabs of rock just like you do in your Wfall.I have the same thing in mind for mine...three tiers.not a huge drop..about four feet from the first to the last....... Will post pics toorrow.have to load them into Photobucket, then to here...its beer oclock right now

Come on Gail...you promised...

[Erns]

Quote: Originally Posted by KoiCop Erns . . . A very intelligent and elegant pond build. Really quite impressive. Not wanting to follow right after your post, I'll just wait 'till later to put ours up.

come on Don, there is something of everything up now...

[KoiCop]

6K gallons, gunite construction, built in 2004

1st circuit:
(2) 3" bottom drains at a depth of 5' to
undersized 150 gallon vortex with brushes; flush to waste
top pick up to 3/4 hp Performance Pro pump
front no niche skimmer T's into line just before pump
80 w Emperor UV
some flow splits off to TPR's; 1 mid-level, 3 low-level
Ultima II 6K filter; flush to waste
(2) 200 gallon upflow bio-chambers, each w/ 26" of J-mat cartridges; flush to waste
(2) water falls and short streams; one is the old filter falls from our first water garden containing J-mat cartridges for our QT
(2) 80 lpm Medo air pumps; each drives one aerated bottom drain and (3) large stones in one of the bio-chambers

2nd circuit:
retro installed no niche skimmer
1/3 hp Performance Pro pump
Ultima 6K filter; flush to waste
surface jet return racetrack skims the surface and back to the nns

3rd circuit:
Hi-Blow 40 lpm air pump driving (2) large airstones and the DIY foam fractionator

[Erns]

Wow Don, really really nice! What do you do for filtration? Your water is just so clear. Love the dogs two, got two siberians myself.

[KoiCop]

LOL You're too fast!

I was editing in the info after posting the pix.

[Flounder]

12,800 US gals. (BTW how many tons is this?)
24'x10'x 9' deep, 2' above ground, 7' below
Gunite shell, gray plastered, flagstone edging
2 aerated bottom drains gravity fed to the 2 Nexus Eazy which then returns to 10 sets of tprs
2 skimmers & 2 mid water intakes gravity fed to an Alpha One Aquabead which then returns the water to the waterfall
3 sequence 750 pumps
4 Alita 80 lpm Air pumps
2 Aqua UV's which were used only during the 1st year, the pond is now clear w/o the need of the UV

Built Jan. 06 in 3 days