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Ponds of differing purposes connected?
Morning,
We're soon to reoccupy our old house. The pond that we had there suffered greatly during our absence, and despite it's large size and depth it has become totally infested with Anacharis and Parrots' Feather. In addition to such a terrible fate, the pole barn is soon to collapse into it- while we were away the sides of the pond collapsed in and it has migrated to the wall of the barn and into it. So, needless to say, that pond is going away by being refilled. We have bought the lot next to ours, and being on a hill as it is we're having half of it converted into a large pond for fishing. It'll be pretty deep and probably close to 100' by 45 or 55'. Since we're putting in a replacement goldfish pond, probably in that area, I'm wondering if there would be a problem having the large pond feed the goldfish pond? The large pond will be earthen-bottomed, and be planted with local aquatic plants (Rough River Lake, Kentucky). It will house Bluegill and Bass fish for the express purpose of fishing- our kids love to fish. The goldfish pond will be lined and contain what butterfly koi and comets that we can rescue from the pond-not-to-be. Plants will be mostly lillies and hyacinths with some other little goodies- all potbound, we've learned our lesson! They would be connected by a PVC pipe that I'd have some kind of strainer in to keep out things from the large pond and a valve for refilling ease, and there would be probably a bog filter area. Could it be problematic to have the two ponds share the same water? |
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Ponds of differing purposes connected?
We have a bass and bluegill pond for the same reason. The kids love
to fish! The bluegill pond would not need circulation. The koi pond would probably benefit from it. How would they be related? Pumping water between? Refilling by shared level? Have they a stream to fill them or will you be using city water? Jim |
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Ponds of differing purposes connected?
We have connected ponds. The larger pond houses the koi and the lower pond houses the goldfish. We have found that the eggs travel and there are a few koi that have made it to the lower pond and also into the veggie filter. Also the gold fish have migrated to the koi pond. That is the only problem that we have had. When we tried to filter the water flowing between the ponds, it continually was clogged (seveal times a day) so we removed the filter. Bonnie NJ |
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Ponds of differing purposes connected?
the predator fish will get into the decorative fish pond and probably
eat them. I wouldnt circulate between those two ponds with different fish. Ingrid |
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Ponds of differing purposes connected?
When I first built my pond at our current home I choose a design where there
was a small waterfall. It spilled into a pond about 12 by 12 foot where I intended to keep pond plants. That pond had a spillway that filled another 12 by 12 foot pond for my koi. Within weeks of transfer my plants and fish I think every fish had learned how to swim from the koi pond into the plant pond. It was any a 6 to 12 inch uphill swim against a fairly strong current. As the plants and fish shared a home in the prior pond it really was not that much of a problem. I did waste allot of time building the wall between the ponds. Dan "rmx256" wrote in message ... Morning, We're soon to reoccupy our old house. The pond that we had there suffered greatly during our absence, and despite it's large size and depth it has become totally infested with Anacharis and Parrots' Feather. In addition to such a terrible fate, the pole barn is soon to collapse into it- while we were away the sides of the pond collapsed in and it has migrated to the wall of the barn and into it. So, needless to say, that pond is going away by being refilled. We have bought the lot next to ours, and being on a hill as it is we're having half of it converted into a large pond for fishing. It'll be pretty deep and probably close to 100' by 45 or 55'. Since we're putting in a replacement goldfish pond, probably in that area, I'm wondering if there would be a problem having the large pond feed the goldfish pond? The large pond will be earthen-bottomed, and be planted with local aquatic plants (Rough River Lake, Kentucky). It will house Bluegill and Bass fish for the express purpose of fishing- our kids love to fish. The goldfish pond will be lined and contain what butterfly koi and comets that we can rescue from the pond-not-to-be. Plants will be mostly lillies and hyacinths with some other little goodies- all potbound, we've learned our lesson! They would be connected by a PVC pipe that I'd have some kind of strainer in to keep out things from the large pond and a valve for refilling ease, and there would be probably a bog filter area. Could it be problematic to have the two ponds share the same water? |
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