Started digging and found this in my yard

[addy1]

Looking good!

 

[houseguitarshop]

Mini Water Garden
I had some leftover liner, tube, and old pump, extra hardwood-flooring, cheap framing boards, and plastic garden pots that I got free from the place I bought rock. I bought the laminated pine boards they were about 10usd total.

the middle pool is 16"deep 18"dia, the bottom pool is 14"deep 16"dia. I think the feature is around 20-30 gallons total. The top pool can be used as a bog if filled with gravel and piped to the bottom. I have a lot of plant growth, so I thinned these from the pond.

I will be giving this little feature away!

 

[houseguitarshop]

Images of the pond in the morning before the sun is up

 

[houseguitarshop]

The finished Mini Water Garden

 

[houseguitarshop]

here is a picture of an albino cory cat. I have 4 albinos and 4 green/black cory cats, and lots of mosquito fish.

 

[sissy]

they are trying to hide

 

[houseguitarshop]

so....with the weather turning cold and this being the first year of the pond, I was not sure if it was going to freeze solid or not so, I decided to bring all my fish in for the winter and setup a small planted aquarium and bog that the plants and fish can wait out the winter in. I pulled out all the sumberged rocks that were in the pond and netted up the fish. I have 6 cory cat fish, an american flagfish, and I netted two matted pairs of mosquito fish. They are happily living in the new new aquarium, I rinsed a bucket of rocks from the bog, used that as the bottom, and I just pumped pond water into the aquarium so it should have been relatively little shock to the fish.

Ill get pictures up soon, the fish grew quite a bit in the 3 months they lived in the pond