Hello it's been a while since I posted an update on the pond. I have mixed emotions and lots of different things going on right now. My pond was losing water about an inch in two days maybe and so I shut off my bog and that seemed to fix it or so I thought then I checked my waterfall and it had a small low spot so I pulled up some of the extra liner there and that solved that spot. Nothing else looks like it leaks but I did figure out that the bog is the main leak. I shut off the bog and attempted several fixes but to no avail. The issue is that instead of spending $400 on a new liner for my bog I took the good 10x10 liner I had in that corner for my fountain and tried to maximize it and it was just short of overlapping the stream liner. I guess I have to buy a bigger liner and redo the bog at least I found a good price on a slightly bigger liner 10 x 12 so i can have a proper overlap. Hopefully I can cut out my plumbing grid and reattach when I get the new liner in. The bad part is I had some plants in my stream already and so I have a previous pump and hose bringing water to the stream but the plants 2 dwarf bamboo are fine the 4 leaf clovers died or so I thought because now they are starting to come back with new pads. One I placed in my waterfall and it died right away because it must not like fast moving water. To top it off my second order of plants arrived some for my bog a mojito taro and lemon bocopoco and parrots feather, and some for my stream and waterfall parrots feather, blue juncus rush, Golden swords and a marlaicea albida water lily for the pond. I was expecting them to ship later in the month and we had some light freezing temps since. Most of bog plants are still in the part shade side of my yard in pond water and all of my plants look like they are doing well but my Taro is not First I did not realize that its a zone 8 plant and I'm zone 6 also when it arrived it did not look happy and the seller said it looks like that when it arrives It now looks dead and I lost money on it but oh well I've moved on Ill have to find another alternative for a tall plant in the back of the bog. Now with the bog off I still lose water buts its not much very fast maybe 1/2 an inch in two days so I don't know what's happening there but once I get my auto fill hooked up I will not worry about it. Also exciting news I bought some gold fish from a local pet store 3 comet gold fish 2 orange and one white and one black shubkin and one orange and white goldfish not sure what it was called. They are really small around 2" I figured I was ready to test my pond and the cost was not much so if anything happens oh well. I hope that doesn't sound bad but I did test my water and it mostly looked good i added beneficial bacteria a few times since I started. The fish look happy but they are hiding since i put them in last night I will go out tonight and see if they will eat they did not come out this morning just noticed one of them swimming in front of the cave. Thanks for reading my long post I'll try to post more often and shorter post if I can.
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