"D.W." wrote in message
om...
I have just finished my patio pond, my first attempt at water
gardening. Let me describe what I have done so far and, hopefully
then, I can get some advice and you will share some of your
experiences with me.

Congratulations on your new venture, and the enthusiasm you are putting into
it. However, I suggest you have enough stuff in your barrel for a several
hundred gallon pond. It will be very difficult maintaining healthy
conditions with so much stuff in so little water. I suggest either getting
more whiskey barrels and dividing the plants and animals among them, or
getting a larger plastic pond and spreading it all out.