New guy and new pond 2018.

[Jack B. Nimble]

Hello all. I know when I spent countless hours reading all your posts one area I enjoyed was pictures so here is my new 2018 pond.

 

[Jhn]

Very nice natural looking pond..

 

[sissy]

great looking pond and hope the enjoyment goes on for years and years

 

[cas]

Oh I love your pond! Thanks for sharing!

 

[RobAmy]

Natural looking pond

 

[Somethin' Fishy]

Welcome Jack, love the pond.

 

[MajorDan]

Welcome jack. Love your pond. Are those comets in your pond?

 

[Jack B. Nimble]

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Welcome jack. Love your pond. Are those comets in your pond?

Actually just feeder goldfish this year. I saved them and plan is too keep 6 of them and give away the rest as my indoor tank too small. I hadn't planned so many would survive after my daughter asked for them. We have raccoons , hawk and cats but I guess all the caves I built work.
I will post a close up of one of them that maybe a comet someone may know here better than I. It was though kind of white and mainly orange but now mostly white with a few orange spots. I have no idea really, I did have goldfish in my past and one for over 13 years but i am no expert that's for sure

 

[bagsmom]

That is so beautiful!!!!! Wow!!!!! You know, I started with two feeder fish - that were indeed comets - and they are big, healthy, and nice looking fish. Sometimes those 17 cent feeder fish end up being favorites!

 

[Jack B. Nimble]

Since sum going down and my yard faces east thought I would post that settlement pond and the second pic is bog but shaded. The bog to the right and settling\ reflecting pond to left. The last picture is the island and 2as created because when digging I hit a ice ridge. So instead of killing myself with pick axe chipping at 12 inch wide by who knows depth I said this is a great place for an island.

 

[Lisak1]

Working with what nature provides - always the best way to go.

 

[Brian B]

That looks fantastic. Looks like hours and hours of work. What is your pump system like? How many GPH, where is it hidden?

What is an "ice ridge"?

 

[Jack B. Nimble]

That looks fantastic. Looks like hours and hours of work. What is your pump system like? How many GPH, where is it hidden?

What is an "ice ridge"?

I would say many more hours starrng at it then moving things than work. I have skimmer opposite of the waterfall which I did not have in my first pond. Soon discovered even with this one that between spring leaves blowing around then all the tree flowers etc that a skimmer is first priority and a bog is number two must have. The pond pump is 2000 GPh in the skimmer to the bio falls. Both were bought used off kijiji. I also have two other pumps both small. One under the rock stairway to the right of the falls where my daughter enters the pond and it feeds the bog. The bog has 2 inch grid pipes with slits cut and feeds up through the 12 inches or so of all pea gravel. I also added a venturi air injector that I made into the elbow that you can see air bubbles rise into bog from the grid. The other half of bog behind the falls (which was an addition) has another grid about 3x3 feet with same pipe but it takes some of the water from the skimmer as I tapped into that line to run it. The second pump is hidden behind island under a old clay broken pot and it feeds the settling / reflection pond to the left. I am not sure of the gph on those two pumps as I bought a crate full of stuff at an auction. Both those pumps have a cage which had foam pre filters bit I removed the foam as to not starve the bog or create any additional maintenance.

The ice ridge is like a layer of icing in the middle of a cake but vertical not horizontal. I was shocked that in late May about 24 inches down this vein of ice was there it almost looked prehistoric. Jagged and very blue almost resembled gold vien in rock.

 

[MajorDan]

Great description. Thanks.