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I've been busy designing a new pond as part of a complete landscape job on my back garden.
The idea is that it forms one edge of a patio area that gets the evening sun. I'm going to stock it with a few goldies, a couple of water lillies, and lots of marginal plants.
Overall dimensions are 4m long, 1.8m wide, and .6m deep in the main, but I will dig down in the middle so the full depth is about 1m in the centre.
The volume will be about 4,000 litres.
Construction
Construction is by concrete blocks 18" x 9" x 4" laid flat for the majority. On the two long sides and the far end, a course will be laid on edge to create a shelf on which I can place marginal plants. The sides will be topped with 4 x 4 timber. I have EDPM liner, which will go under the timber, so the water level will be a couple of inches below the timber rails.
On the shelf at the far end I'm going to build a waterfall, which will act as the return from the filter.
I already have a Oase 5500 pump (which I suspect might be too powerful?) so I intend to put a biological filter alongside the waterfall, so that the outlet feeds the waterfall. I haven't decided on the filter yet - any recommendations? I have spotted this which seems to have good reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blagdon-Minipond-Filter-4500-UVC/dp/B002X6F8DI
Any advice would be welcomed.
Chris
The dimensions are slightly wrong in this perspective. Accurate dimensions are below.
The idea is that it forms one edge of a patio area that gets the evening sun. I'm going to stock it with a few goldies, a couple of water lillies, and lots of marginal plants.
Overall dimensions are 4m long, 1.8m wide, and .6m deep in the main, but I will dig down in the middle so the full depth is about 1m in the centre.
The volume will be about 4,000 litres.
Construction
Construction is by concrete blocks 18" x 9" x 4" laid flat for the majority. On the two long sides and the far end, a course will be laid on edge to create a shelf on which I can place marginal plants. The sides will be topped with 4 x 4 timber. I have EDPM liner, which will go under the timber, so the water level will be a couple of inches below the timber rails.
On the shelf at the far end I'm going to build a waterfall, which will act as the return from the filter.
I already have a Oase 5500 pump (which I suspect might be too powerful?) so I intend to put a biological filter alongside the waterfall, so that the outlet feeds the waterfall. I haven't decided on the filter yet - any recommendations? I have spotted this which seems to have good reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blagdon-Minipond-Filter-4500-UVC/dp/B002X6F8DI
Any advice would be welcomed.
Chris
The dimensions are slightly wrong in this perspective. Accurate dimensions are below.