new guy with a 850 gallon pond

[PFD.BBurns4667]

well i have had my pond for 3 months and everything is going great. I plan on building a new house in the next year or so and i want to expand and build a 7500-10k gallon pond as the house is being built. my lot needs a bit of dirt for the house pad, so i will use the dirt from my pond to make my house pad and use the slope of the pad for a natural waterfall. anyways here are some pictures of my current pond.

digging the hole

building my bamboo fence

 

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the all white fish is a new one

 

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and this fish is about 12 inches i forgot to take a picture while he was in the plastic bag floating

the water clarity is usually spot on , but my wife unplugged the uv light while i was on a 48 hour shift at the firestation and the algae bloomed bigtime. The pond gets full sunlight for a large amount of the day and the algae thrives here in this climate 98F yesturday.
Its has already cleared up a bit just after a few hours of uv, but now im back at the firestation for another 48..

 

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[koiguy1969]

i like it!!
welcome to the group there buddy!

 

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hmm just saw an add a sphere.. i found a site that sells acrylic domes 40"dia. x up to 20" high
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$177.65 ea.

might go a bit smaller, but hell i can build a stand out of aluminum with my plasma cutter and it will support the weight for the cheap and add volume to my pond

 

[koiguy1969]

you can do the same with an acrylic aquarium.

 

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i just googled them and anything but a rectangle is outrageous in price compared what i could get from this company im looking at..