The pond I am building has a pump that sends water to a raised planter, that will serve as the wetland filter. The planter is about 6" higher than that pond, and then water will flow back by gravity to the pond. The pond is maybe 22,000 gallons and the wetland filter somewhere around 6-8,000 gallons.
I have some extra materials left over, enough to build a second, much smaller pond, about 3,000 gallons. I found a spot about 20 ft from the main pond, but fairly close to the wetland filter. Though I could leave this as separate, I think if it were plumbed to share water with the wetland filter and pond, it would be cleaner and less prone to rapid changes in water chemistry.
Is there some way to connect this second pond to the main pond or to the wetland filter, so there is the added benefit of sharing the clean water and more stable water perimeters, being part of a much larger system with 10s of thousands of gallons?
I have some extra materials left over, enough to build a second, much smaller pond, about 3,000 gallons. I found a spot about 20 ft from the main pond, but fairly close to the wetland filter. Though I could leave this as separate, I think if it were plumbed to share water with the wetland filter and pond, it would be cleaner and less prone to rapid changes in water chemistry.
Is there some way to connect this second pond to the main pond or to the wetland filter, so there is the added benefit of sharing the clean water and more stable water perimeters, being part of a much larger system with 10s of thousands of gallons?
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