Aaron's Pond

Overview

I already started a thread about my ponding experience (here on this thread)

My intentions are that this will be more detailed.

My first experience with a pond was with an old used preformed pond with a pump.
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This was the pond right after it was put in. The landscaping in this picture is just breathtaking :D. We tried to get some Koi because at the time my extensive knowledge was telling me that this non filtered pond of about 100 gallons was just perfect for a pond. So we got a little koi and it disappeared. So I got another one and it had the same fate with in a few days. So I went to a pet store and got some comet feeder fish for 8 cents each, much cheaper than a koi. I did not enjoy solid green water so I experimented with building a filter for the pond and after a while all but one of the fish died.
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This is a pick of a filter I set up. I simply crammed the pump into a flower pot and covered it with pea gravel. It did not look the best but it worked. You can see the surviving fish near the base of the flower pot. The fish was solid orange and was flanked on each side with a white rectangular spot so he was named Fishstick.
Here is a pic of the same fish a few days ago.
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Now I'm going to embark on a complete makeover of my garden area of my yard. I get about 1/4 of the yard to do with as I want so I'm going to turn it into my dream garden. Come along with me on the journey.

Planning and Construction

This here is a cheesy drawing of my current pond area.
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Starting soon, I will start transforming it into something closer to this:
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Fish / Plant Stock

Fish
I got 3 of my goldfish as feeder fish from a pet store for about a dime each. Then last fall my kids won 4 more as prizes (even though it is illegal to have any animal as a prize in my city) They are all just standard Comet Goldfish. Since early spring, they have turned the pond into the Love Shack. We have had 3 batches of fish so now we have about 50 in the pond.
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PLANTS
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