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Almost ready to expand
I'm almost ready to expand my pond.
On April I will start on my hole. The new pond will be 15x15 and 4 ft deep. I got my liner in. I got my pump. Its a Sequence External Self Priming Series The flow rate is 1500 - 5400 G.P.H. I'm going to have two bottom drains. I ordered Greg's CD to show me how to do this. I'm go have a settlement pond behind the big one with filter mat in it and hide that with plants. I'm still debating if I will have a waterfall. Don't really know how to make one. Oh yeah, I want a skimmer also. Does all this sound good? I want this one to be the last hole I dig. I have Koi, Shubunkins, comets and sarassa's. Priss http://priss31.tripod.com/SmallPond.html |
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Priss,
The pond sounds good and I would say that you shouldn't have to dig it again, but everyone knows, a pond shrinks when it gets wet. The filter system will be the area that will need the most upgrading, but that is done as needed, after the fish population gets larger, and fish grow larger and the begging gets louder and the food is fed more freely. My large pond is 12X18X3 to 3.5 feet deep. I still like the pond. The filters have had some kind of upgrade every year, no going on 6. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... I'm almost ready to expand my pond. On April I will start on my hole. The new pond will be 15x15 and 4 ft deep. I got my liner in. I got my pump. Its a Sequence External Self Priming Series The flow rate is 1500 - 5400 G.P.H. I'm going to have two bottom drains. I ordered Greg's CD to show me how to do this. I'm go have a settlement pond behind the big one with filter mat in it and hide that with plants. I'm still debating if I will have a waterfall. Don't really know how to make one. Oh yeah, I want a skimmer also. Does all this sound good? I want this one to be the last hole I dig. I have Koi, Shubunkins, comets and sarassa's. Priss http://priss31.tripod.com/SmallPond.html |
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Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them.
I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. What do you mean the ponds go shrink. I hope this is some joke I didn't get. lol Priss "RichToyBox" wrote in message news:3h3ac.128015$_w.1564462@attbi_s53... Priss, The pond sounds good and I would say that you shouldn't have to dig it again, but everyone knows, a pond shrinks when it gets wet. The filter system will be the area that will need the most upgrading, but that is done as needed, after the fish population gets larger, and fish grow larger and the begging gets louder and the food is fed more freely. My large pond is 12X18X3 to 3.5 feet deep. I still like the pond. The filters have had some kind of upgrade every year, no going on 6. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... I'm almost ready to expand my pond. On April I will start on my hole. The new pond will be 15x15 and 4 ft deep. I got my liner in. I got my pump. Its a Sequence External Self Priming Series The flow rate is 1500 - 5400 G.P.H. I'm going to have two bottom drains. I ordered Greg's CD to show me how to do this. I'm go have a settlement pond behind the big one with filter mat in it and hide that with plants. I'm still debating if I will have a waterfall. Don't really know how to make one. Oh yeah, I want a skimmer also. Does all this sound good? I want this one to be the last hole I dig. I have Koi, Shubunkins, comets and sarassa's. Priss http://priss31.tripod.com/SmallPond.html |
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Priss,
My brother is a boater. He says that boats shrink an average of one foot a year once they get wet. That's his excuse for going for a bigger boat. The same seems to be true of ponds. The hole looks humongous. Get the fish and plants in it and all of a sudden it doesn't look as big as it did. Give the fish a few years to grow, and those little fish swimming around in the pond makes it look like the pond shrunk to about a 10 gallon aquarium. They really don't shrink. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them. I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. What do you mean the ponds go shrink. I hope this is some joke I didn't get. lol Priss "RichToyBox" wrote in message news:3h3ac.128015$_w.1564462@attbi_s53... Priss, The pond sounds good and I would say that you shouldn't have to dig it again, but everyone knows, a pond shrinks when it gets wet. The filter system will be the area that will need the most upgrading, but that is done as needed, after the fish population gets larger, and fish grow larger and the begging gets louder and the food is fed more freely. My large pond is 12X18X3 to 3.5 feet deep. I still like the pond. The filters have had some kind of upgrade every year, no going on 6. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... I'm almost ready to expand my pond. On April I will start on my hole. The new pond will be 15x15 and 4 ft deep. I got my liner in. I got my pump. Its a Sequence External Self Priming Series The flow rate is 1500 - 5400 G.P.H. I'm going to have two bottom drains. I ordered Greg's CD to show me how to do this. I'm go have a settlement pond behind the big one with filter mat in it and hide that with plants. I'm still debating if I will have a waterfall. Don't really know how to make one. Oh yeah, I want a skimmer also. Does all this sound good? I want this one to be the last hole I dig. I have Koi, Shubunkins, comets and sarassa's. Priss http://priss31.tripod.com/SmallPond.html |
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"pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ...
Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them. I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. If you really want Atlanta Koi I live in Atlanta and can send them to you... ;-) |
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"Josh" wrote in message om... "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them. I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. If you really want Atlanta Koi I live in Atlanta and can send them to you... ;-) Atlanta Koi look like Japanese Koi but have a different accent right? -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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"Josh" wrote in message om... "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them. I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. If you really want Atlanta Koi I live in Atlanta and can send them to you... ;-) Atlanta Koi look like Japanese Koi but have a different accent right? -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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"Josh" wrote in message om... "pmwebdesigns" wrote in message ... Rich your Koi are gorgeous!!!! I ooo and ahhh over them. I can't find any really quality Koi here. I have visited every petstore and nothing has really impressed me. The couple of Koi I have now came from Atlanta and a friend gave them to me. I wish we had something locally here. If you really want Atlanta Koi I live in Atlanta and can send them to you... ;-) Atlanta Koi look like Japanese Koi but have a different accent right? -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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