So, I have moved into my parent's old farmhouse and not leaving my pond fish so gotta do what I gotta do 
My plan was ( fist pic) to use the area between carport, garage, house and build me a nice size pond 10x12 or there abouts. We have a lot of country themed items, planned to use an old bathtub as a filter. At the moment I do not have the funds for new liner, bigger pump, etc, etc, so my plan is do use the several preform liners I already have and make a 2 tiered system. my biggest liner is still at my old house so it will be dug up and brought over. I could leave it, but it's in the un-fenced front yard, that leaves liability and possibly negative to selling the house, I need it anyway
From the pic above, we have put flower beds along the lattice against carport and there is a small wheelchair type tamp and deck where the downspout comes across the sidewalk. This really changes my thoughts so I decided to go in the corner of the fence and carport ( other side of the green tarp over mom's swing in pic). This actually works out better, I can put up a privacy fence and create a backdrop for filter and pond.
Here is my pond at the old house, this was back in June. I had tall plants but moved then over into a watering trough earlier in the year.
The yard has a slight slopped so I will be putting small pond up top, little "creek/water fall" down into the large one once I move fish/plants then pull liner up from old house. I then have to dig my new hole which may take this thread into next spring, getting cold fast.
So here are pics of my current state. Upper pond is dug and since these pics, it has been leveled and water in with a few of my plants. in hindsight, I should have not dug so deep and left it higher, I may raise it up once I get lower pond in the ground and see how they look.
Plan is to put filter up in corner and disguise it with I haven't decided yet, go into top pond, trickle down into lower pond, then pump back up to filter. I had planned to get fish/plants in upper pond for winter and worry about digging big one in spring, but I may take my 100 gal water trough, put in basement with some plants and the fish and connect it to my 55 gal turtle tank and use the pond plants as partial filtration along with a DIY trickle filter. still on fence what I am going to do.
My plan was ( fist pic) to use the area between carport, garage, house and build me a nice size pond 10x12 or there abouts. We have a lot of country themed items, planned to use an old bathtub as a filter. At the moment I do not have the funds for new liner, bigger pump, etc, etc, so my plan is do use the several preform liners I already have and make a 2 tiered system. my biggest liner is still at my old house so it will be dug up and brought over. I could leave it, but it's in the un-fenced front yard, that leaves liability and possibly negative to selling the house, I need it anyway
From the pic above, we have put flower beds along the lattice against carport and there is a small wheelchair type tamp and deck where the downspout comes across the sidewalk. This really changes my thoughts so I decided to go in the corner of the fence and carport ( other side of the green tarp over mom's swing in pic). This actually works out better, I can put up a privacy fence and create a backdrop for filter and pond.
Here is my pond at the old house, this was back in June. I had tall plants but moved then over into a watering trough earlier in the year.
The yard has a slight slopped so I will be putting small pond up top, little "creek/water fall" down into the large one once I move fish/plants then pull liner up from old house. I then have to dig my new hole which may take this thread into next spring, getting cold fast.
So here are pics of my current state. Upper pond is dug and since these pics, it has been leveled and water in with a few of my plants. in hindsight, I should have not dug so deep and left it higher, I may raise it up once I get lower pond in the ground and see how they look.
Plan is to put filter up in corner and disguise it with I haven't decided yet, go into top pond, trickle down into lower pond, then pump back up to filter. I had planned to get fish/plants in upper pond for winter and worry about digging big one in spring, but I may take my 100 gal water trough, put in basement with some plants and the fish and connect it to my 55 gal turtle tank and use the pond plants as partial filtration along with a DIY trickle filter. still on fence what I am going to do.
