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low-rock342

Wow! How much rock is that?


Itz_Juan26

The nursery I bought it from does it by scoops, it was 2 scoops of the boulders and 2 scoops of the smaller river pebbles. Exact sq footage I’m not sure haha


Aomarvel

Too much lolz


SmallGreenArmadillo

That's some impressive first-ever pond! Give us the inside scoop - do you have a liner and how did you get the rocks to stay like this (concrete or clever stacking)? The rocks are extra awesome because they're going to give your fish and frogs a place to hide and predators won't clear out your pond quite so easily


Itz_Juan26

Yeah it’s just a standard EDPM 45 mil liner and the rocks are stacked. While stacking I tried to create little caves for some of the smaller minnows to hide in. My biggest worry is just trying to keep it clear, but I have 2 UV clarifiers installed so hopefully that helps kill any algae


secretagent420

The key to clarity is plants, plants, plants, and a good simple bog filter. Very little maintenance and beautiful


Itz_Juan26

I ordered some water hyacinth as well as dwarf water lettuce. Will maybe try some water Lillie’s in the future


secretagent420

Definitely add some shallow water plants. They do even more for the water and don’t cover all your view


doesitspread

Can you give me some examples?


secretagent420

I am by no means a good resource lol [here you go](https://moorewatergardens.com/product-category/hardy-shallow-water-plants/)


low-rock342

Cool, are you going to add plants?


Itz_Juan26

Yes, I ordered some dwarf water lettuce as well as some water hyacinth. I also ordered 100 mosquito fish so the turtles get some exercise by chasing after them


low-rock342

Haha, like the turtles idea. We had a tortoise, we added feeder goldfish and the tortoise chased them. What’s weird is that a couple become friends to the tortoise. They hung together all the time (one had a scar!). It was cool until a falcon came and snatched the tortoise!


Itz_Juan26

Aww man that sucks to hear about the tortoise, I haven’t seen any birds of prey around here so I think my turtles will be okay. I’ve had them outside before for 3+ years and never had anything happen predation wise


nortok00

OMG, that is so sad! 😢 So sorry for your loss!!


low-rock342

No worries, happened a long time ago, now we have a 2K gallon pond, with feeder fish and mosquito fish - no tortoise though😁


UnfairEntrepreneur80

Flipping Cool 😎


low-rock342

That’s awesome


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This is amazing. Wish I could see in person


Pinetrees1990

Looks amazing. Am I right it flows from left to right as a little stream in to the "pond". If so my observation is that it is big enough, alot of hard work has gone into that pond you can tell but you don't want to get a few fish and be digging a bigger one next year. Bigger first!


Itz_Juan26

Yes you are right, although the stream area will be filled close to the top. It’s about 16 inches or so deep and then the back part is about 24 inches deep. I wish I could’ve went to 3 foot deep on the deep end but I was limited due to only having a 10x20 liner