Dude
July 18th 05, 12:50 PM
I redone my pond for the 3rd time in 1 year. I keep making it a little
bigger.. You know how that goes. Anyways I bought a bigger linner and
shoveled out a bigger hole. I didnt measure or anything but I would
guess its now about 7' wide and 5' front to back and about 20" deep.
When we bought the house the pond was there but it was tiny, barely
bigger than a 50 gallon drum on its side.
So after the reconstruction I decided to put river rock in the bottom
to make it look nicer than just black liner bottom. I was afraid it
would start looking like crap with algae and I was right. After a few
weeks the stones are covered with it. The water it clear as can be
though. no pea soup for me thanks to the Turbo-Twist UV Pond Clarifier.
I didnt have much in the way of plant yet only two small lilys and a
handfull of anacharis. By the way I live in Arizona and its in the low
100's everyday from mid june to mid sept. and lots of direct sunlight.
So the algae grows quick. So 2 weeks ago I bought 72 stems of anacharis
and put it in and I have been using my big umbrella from the pool to
provide shade and it seems all of the sudden I mean like in the last
two days all the rocks are algae free.. Yeah :)
I got some free water letuce from Muffin last week but it was destroyed
in transit :( so she said she would send me some more and I'll add that
and maybe something else that would provide some surface coverage.
Happy ponding,
Chris
Chris
bigger.. You know how that goes. Anyways I bought a bigger linner and
shoveled out a bigger hole. I didnt measure or anything but I would
guess its now about 7' wide and 5' front to back and about 20" deep.
When we bought the house the pond was there but it was tiny, barely
bigger than a 50 gallon drum on its side.
So after the reconstruction I decided to put river rock in the bottom
to make it look nicer than just black liner bottom. I was afraid it
would start looking like crap with algae and I was right. After a few
weeks the stones are covered with it. The water it clear as can be
though. no pea soup for me thanks to the Turbo-Twist UV Pond Clarifier.
I didnt have much in the way of plant yet only two small lilys and a
handfull of anacharis. By the way I live in Arizona and its in the low
100's everyday from mid june to mid sept. and lots of direct sunlight.
So the algae grows quick. So 2 weeks ago I bought 72 stems of anacharis
and put it in and I have been using my big umbrella from the pool to
provide shade and it seems all of the sudden I mean like in the last
two days all the rocks are algae free.. Yeah :)
I got some free water letuce from Muffin last week but it was destroyed
in transit :( so she said she would send me some more and I'll add that
and maybe something else that would provide some surface coverage.
Happy ponding,
Chris
Chris