Storms Pond

[Storm]

Hi everyone

With recently buying a house with wooden floors, ive had to downscale my 300L reef to a 90L Nano until I build my undercover outside entertainment area with concrete floors. Until then, I need a new project to keep me busy and one thing ive been gifted with is a very very big front and backyard. So, ive embarked on looking at building a freshwater pond in the front yard. After playing in a paintapp for a bit ive decided on a below build. Since I come from the reefing world Ile have to Google about freshwater ponds. In the meantime I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions to make the pond a viable option

 

[RiaanP]

I posted this somewhere else recently

Well, what I know from my old Koi dam.

OK, it is really small compared to most out there. Was 3000L and 1m deep.

Water must be deeper than 800mm.
Do not circulate the water from the bottom of the dam to the top in winter. OK, that does really depend on how cold it goes, but do not.
The water deeper than 800mm stays warmer in the winter. The fish will stay deep down in the warmer water.

Do not pump the water from the dam into the filtration. No point in munching up the leaves and rubbish into tiny bits then try to filter it out. Rater an overflow weir like swimming pool, or bottom drain (in the summer) going into a pit / filtration next to the dam. So the lowest furthermost point will have the return pump going back to the dam or waterfall.

Fish tend to jump upstream. Keep that in mind while designing the return. Else they end up dry on land.

Certain water plants works wonders in keeping the dam clean. Same as Cheato. although Koi is vegetarian and would eat the roots. So have it in baskets or part of filtration where the fish cannot get to.

Use bird netting.