I get to redo my pond

[j.w]

I may not be active much for the next week. My wife's mother passed away about an hour ago.:sad:

So sorry for your families loss Dr Dave.

 

[27goldfish]

Got the water under my liner fixed. I am starting to do exterior plants now!! When done, I will post my baby plants.

 

[Carpe_Diem]

Hi 27Goldfish,

Great looking pond! Would it be possible for you to come all the way up here and build
my pond. There is a beer in it for ya. Well, mabey even two or three.:lol:

 

[27goldfish]

AAGGHHH!!! My waterfall is causing me to lose water. It is all apart. Overnight, with a shot glass to fill my inlet, my bulkhead lost about 2 inches. This is abs. I am not seeing any cracks. Any ideas? I know the shot glass can't be sealing it 100 %. Any ideas on how to find this? Thanks.

 

[DrDave]

All of my waterfall leaks were the result of fittings in the drum or overflow that did not make it into the stream.

 

[27goldfish]

That's what is odd. My fittings are not leaking

 

[DrDave]

I went nuts chasing 2 different leaks. My upper pond will sometimes oveflow and drain the lower pond since its water comes from there. Plants in my stream, dam up the water and cause this.

 

[27goldfish]

I plugged my input to the spillway with a shotglass. Not perfect, but kinda works. I had water on my liner under my rocks, but I also lost about 3 inches from my spillway. Haven't checked it today.

 

[LesleyMN]

Let me say, you never realize how deep 3 ft is until you dig it in solid clay by hand

I got a pick-ax. It went through our clay like butter!

 

[27goldfish]

The last day, I was pretty much using an ax to break it up more, as it was dry!!

 

[27goldfish]

Lost a foot last night. Waterfall has to be leaking somewhere. Got to find it. This will be the 3rd time I have built it

 

[DrDave]

I bypassed my waterfal when I was troubleshooting my water loss. The leak stopped. Then I knew I had a waterfall problem.

 

[27goldfish]

I am thinking about taking all rocks that are non essential out, turning on the waterfall, and looking for water. Do you think that may work? The waterfall pump runs my spillway and a tetra pf1, so with it down my filtration is all messed up :*(
that is me crying by the way, as I am posting from my mobile device.

 

[nigil]

27goldfish, .....pulling the non-essential rock will help to pin point a leak. another thought , but how is your waterfall situated in regards to wind direction? My neighbor called me this morning asking about water loss (he had alot last night, too) but his waterfall gets pushed all sorts of directions by the wind. And with the storms we had last night, I believe it. We watched his waterfall lose an inch in an hour when we had winds gusting to 20mph. I hope you get everything figured out

 

[D&RW]

I am not sure what kind of filtration you have, but is it at all possible to bypass the spillway/waterfall like Dr. Dave says and still use the filtration? If you could do this, you wouldn't lose the filtration and could rebuild your WF. Couldn't you reroute the piping on the tetra to go around the falls.

In my system which is an easypro filterfalls medium size, I installed a 4 in. bulkhead so I could bypass the waterfall if needed.