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Pond Expansion
I'm about to expand my 400 gallon pond to a 1250 gallon. Yea!
Some background: San Francisco location, it never freezes. Leafy, shady area. Pond is a large "C" shape (I know it's not ideal, but the pond goes around trees & roots). The "C" is about 1' at it's narrowest and 3' at it's widest. I've got 3 fish I think are koi (6" long, with whiskers) and 5 other small goldfish, 2 perpetual tadpoles and one frog. Also, I've currently got an Oase Aquamax 1000 pumping into an Oase Filtoclear 800. with no skimmer and no bottom drain. I'd like to have a skimmer & bottom drain in the new pond. There is now a small waterfall I'm thinking of transforming into a water-garden/exposed veggie filter (i.e., 3 levels of shallow pools, each pool ~2' diameter, each filled with plants). Any opinions on whether this should work well for water cleansing? Biggest question: Any tips, suggestions, opinions about joining a new liner to the old one? Anyone have success doing this, or should I just spend the $ on a new huge liner? (Don't forget, the "C" shape makes for a lot of unavoidable bunching-up of liner, whereas is I join the old to the new, I can avoid alot of the bunching). Should I keep the old pump/filter set and get another 'small' filter/ pump set (and use both at once), or scrap the old and get one larger new set? |
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