"Daniel Phillips" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:28:06 GMT, "RichToyBox"
wrote:

Generally speaking, most ponds require the addition of water from the
hose.
Evaporation exceeds rainfall. If any of the water from the pot goes out
into the yard, it won't hurt anything. If runoff from the yard goes into
the pond it can be quite polluting.
Ok.

Will fish definitely need drainage holes in the top for rain or if I
have to flood the barrel for any reason? Can they get by on their own?
Would adding features to the barrel for them to hide under and get
leverage be the answer?


I can't see how you filling up the barrel to the point of overflowing it
would happen, unless you decided to top off the barrel at 4am in the dark.
Unless you get monsoon kind of downpours a rain induced overflow isn't going
to be like a river that will flush all the fish and plants out of the
barrel.

You're worrying over what is really nothing significant. A half oak barrel
is about 20 gallons. Even if you dumped straight out onto the lawn, it's not
going to amount to much more then a patch of wet lawn. In a day or two it
will dry out.

Try it as an experiment. Fill up the barrel with water, then tip the barrel
over, and wait 10 minutes, then see how all the water has been soaked up by
the ground and everything is okay. The ground can soak up a lot of water, so
the worst case of the barrel cracking or tipping over and draining water all
the yard is really a minor concern.

Sameer