good diy pond wesite

[kjswift]

anyone know a good one? thanks

[hobogato]

what kind of pond are you thinking of doing? i have three small above ground ones in my yard,
if you have any questions, i would be glad to help.

[Flobex]

i can tell you this right now. if you dotn live in town the deer will probvbaly eat your plants, unless you have a 8' fence :P id suggest to go to home depot or lowes, and get a pond book.

[kjswift]

i have already built the pond around 700 gallons. what i am looking for now is a diy filter of some sort. the one i bought gets clogged to easily.

[Flobex]

the filter gets clogges? or the pump gets clogged? if its getting clogged it could be because of suspended algae. is your pond green? ot prevent this get more plants,a nd a uv sterilizer if more plants dosent help. what is clogging teh filter?

[Tim Marvin]

I've made a few DIY filters, and they either don't work very well or they work too well and you always cleaning them. I have about 7,000 gallons in the back yard and I just use tons of plants and a surface skimmer (Savio) I bought here...

http://www.azponds.com/Skimmers.htm

Good price and works great! Best piece of equipment I bought for the pond.

[blueboy]

lots of plants always worked for me. in new ponds there is usually a cycling period were the water gets really green, but once all the nutrients are used up the algae dies, and falls to the bottom. it is important to have good aggitation at this point, because the decaying algae uses up the oxygen. as long as nutrients aren't being introduced(runoff, water change, dogs, kids)the water should stay pretty clear thereafter, assuming you do have enough plants to at least process the nutrients from fish waste.