So I'm on my third year of my pond and have had a total of maybe 1 month of decently clear water. The fish love the pond and grow and multiply. The plants love the pond and grow and multiply. But it's always green. Always. I clean the skimmer filters every couple days. Clean the bio falls filters every couple weeks. Doesn't matter. So, seems like everyone who puts in a bog has success. Anyone put one in and find it to be a waste of time/money?
My pond butts up to a shed and fence, and the front has sprinkler lines running in front of it, so I'm pretty much stuck with one spot for the bog--behind the shed. It would be shady most of the time. I'll post a few pics. I can't decide how I'd do this. I thought of putting a tuff stock tank on the ground and letting that flow into the bio falls container to keep my waterfall. But I've always hated my fake looking waterfall. So maybe I take that unit out and fill in the hole and just run some type of short stream to the pond? That would bring me to questions about how to make that work with adding a new liner.... if I'm taking out the biofalls unit, do I just dig a hole for the bog instead of the easier use of a tank (that would be mostly hidden behind the shed)?
For reference, in looking at the pics you can see the waterfall unit, and basically directly across the pond from it is the skimmer unit which houses the pump. The pump pushes water through pvc around the back of the pond by the fence. That gap between the shed and fence is about 3 1/2 feet wide. I don't mind not having much of a waterfall, but want some running water into the pond. Thanks for looking and any ideas/help!
My pond butts up to a shed and fence, and the front has sprinkler lines running in front of it, so I'm pretty much stuck with one spot for the bog--behind the shed. It would be shady most of the time. I'll post a few pics. I can't decide how I'd do this. I thought of putting a tuff stock tank on the ground and letting that flow into the bio falls container to keep my waterfall. But I've always hated my fake looking waterfall. So maybe I take that unit out and fill in the hole and just run some type of short stream to the pond? That would bring me to questions about how to make that work with adding a new liner.... if I'm taking out the biofalls unit, do I just dig a hole for the bog instead of the easier use of a tank (that would be mostly hidden behind the shed)?
For reference, in looking at the pics you can see the waterfall unit, and basically directly across the pond from it is the skimmer unit which houses the pump. The pump pushes water through pvc around the back of the pond by the fence. That gap between the shed and fence is about 3 1/2 feet wide. I don't mind not having much of a waterfall, but want some running water into the pond. Thanks for looking and any ideas/help!