I’m new to having a pond. It’s about a month old. A few days ago I added a frog water spitter and now it is losing water overnight. I added a net also and just moved some rocks around. I don’t understand the lose of water. I’m going to remove the spitter for a day and see if that is the problem. If so then I will just add water twice a week. Any thoughts
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Welcome to the forum. Barring a leak in the hose of some sort, then evaporation is the culprit. Eliminating possible issues as you are doing is the way to go about it. Fountains and spitters can increase evaporation. They can also cause water loss from splashing out of the pond or having the wind blow the water outside the pond. Evaporation/water loss can vary greatly depending on climate and weather conditions.
My guess would be you stepped on an edge somewhere and that's your leak
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Hello and welcome!
How big is the pond? What kind of liner does it have? Please let us see some pics.
How big is the pond? What kind of liner does it have? Please let us see some pics.
That's a very scary thought for me, especially as I'm still in the planning stage and considering the best way to build . Are all liners really so fragile? I thought EPDM and HDPE were supposed to be tough enough that that wouldn't matter, especially if you put geotextile above and below it.
lets say you have a vanishing edge water level is always at the same level. if you have a half inch that the liner is higher than the water line . It gives you very little room for rains to compact soils that were disturbed during construction and walking on the edge can shift soils easily. any edge under 2 inches is risky as whisking and every time we step there is literally 2000 pounds of pressure is applied . so its easy to create a problem
Makes sense. I thought you were talking about punctures more than shifting and sinking, but I can see how that would happen too.