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[frankie5998]

Hi Frankie here from the UK,
i just built a pond in my garden last year and have stocked it with goldfish, shabunkin, orfs and commets. i lost 2 females this year due to them not being able to release there eggs, being new to this i was taken by surprise. i will attach some pics of how the pond took shape. hope everyone likes it.

Frankie.

 

[buckry]

Love it, great shape. That big round end is perfect, I wish I could have talked my wife into a few more feet at my fat end like that. Great job.

 

[frankie5998]

Thanks for the reply Buckry
Glad you like it it never started out to be as big i just got carried away when
I was digging . Took me 2 weeks to dig the hole i then lined it with carpet before
I put the pond liner on.

 

[buckry]

I laid mine out with garden hose, and it looked good, but then I thought, what if I do another foot here, and 6 inches there, and it ended up being 14x22. My wife flipped out. I said I wanted to dig a bigger pond, but my old pond was only 100 gallons, so any pond is going to be bigger, she assumed I meant 500 or 600 gallons. Plus the depth freaked her out, she didn't know I was going to 4 feet. I also made some changes as I dug, made one corner a bit smaller ,so to make up for it I enlarged the skinny end by about 100%. Dug out a bunch of dirt to make the skinny end not so skinny. My pond ended up being 3500 gallons.

 

[frankie5998]

Thats some size, do you have any pics.
Frankie.

 

[buckry]

Yeah, put a few pics in the gallery section:

https://www.gardenpondforum.com/gallery/album/247-buck-pond/

 

[frankie5998]

Thats not a pond its a lake ....love it.

 

[j.w]

frankie5998
You made a very nice looking pond there

 

[frankie5998]

Thanks JW
its my first attempt and i have only had it for a year now but just cant
Stop going out and watching the fish.
I am at work at the moment but will post more
Pictures later.
Thanks for your comments. ;-)

 

[buckry]

That's funny, I was thinking the same thing about yours. I think both of our ponds look bigger in photos than they are in reality. I think mine looks positively tiny in photos, but yours looks huge. Must be an optical illusion or something.

 

[frankie5998]

No mate its only 15 feet long and 8 feet across its widest point
But im glad it looks bigger. ;-)

 

[addy1]

Wow that is beautiful! love your water fall too. Great job great shape Nice rocks

and welcome to our group!

 

[frankie5998]

Thanks addy 1
Got the rocks from a local garden centre here in the uk.
I was quoted £9-10,000 for someone to do it for me but i managed myself for
£2,000. I suppose they may have made a better job , but my wife and me think its great.

 

[buckry]

Then, yeah, my brain was totally seeing it wrong. Funny how that happens.

 

[Figgy]

Hi Frankie, welcome to the forum from me.