empty pond

[Oxymel_of_Squill]

came home from a week away to find the lilly pond all but empty. Bit
mystified as there's no sign of a leak anywhere and the walls of the pond
beyond the plastic liner don't feel soggy. And the fish pond level had
dropped less than an inch (we've had a couple of dry weeks).

Same thing happened last year, lilly pond merrily ponding along, then
suddenly in dry weather emptied itself. I filled it up and it stayed ok
until this week's little performance. Is there something large out there
with a great thirst? Or am I missing something obvious?

cheers

Jon

[jbjrfan]

do you have a waterfall that can get plugged and the overflow will drain the
pond and the debris fall out later after the pond is empty ? like pine combs
that's what happens to mine !

[dkat]

Raccoons once happily pulled the tubing from my pump out of the water (I
pump water from the lower larger pond up to a smaller pond that has plants
and no fish -well is meant to have no fish). It emptied all of the pond but
for a few inches. Since then I have kept my pump in a 5 gallon bucket
filled with lava rocks. It serves as a bio filter this way and also insures
that the water will never drop lower than the height of the bucket (15").
In a week a very minor leak can empty a pond. How many gallons is your
pond?


"Oxymel_of_Squill" > wrote in message
news:A9tuc.1261$2t3.524@newsfe1-win...
> came home from a week away to find the lilly pond all but empty. Bit
> mystified as there's no sign of a leak anywhere and the walls of the pond
> beyond the plastic liner don't feel soggy. And the fish pond level had
> dropped less than an inch (we've had a couple of dry weeks).
>
> Same thing happened last year, lilly pond merrily ponding along, then
> suddenly in dry weather emptied itself. I filled it up and it stayed ok
> until this week's little performance. Is there something large out there
> with a great thirst? Or am I missing something obvious?
>
> cheers
>
> Jon
>
>

[Oxymel_of_Squill]

no there's no waterfall or pump. It's a lilly pond so there's no moving
water. Except disappearing water of course. I've filled it up and it's
sitting there quite happily. But I bet it will suddenly evacuate itself
again one night

Jon


"dkat" > wrote in message
et...
> Raccoons once happily pulled the tubing from my pump out of the water (I
> pump water from the lo

[SA]

Check to see if the neighbour has a pet elephant.

I joke, because I haven't a clue.