Aug
Goldfish - How To Build Your Very Own Goldfish Pond
If you are planning to keep your goldfish in a garden pond & you are also planning to build the pond yourself, then there’re a few things you will need to know first.
The tools you will need are a shovel, pond liner & underlayment, a long piece of rope, coping stones & decorations, plants, a pump (you will need a pump to run a filter, fountain, or waterfall in order to keep the water circulating & the plants healthy), a filter system & some cooperative friends or family members! Now you can get started ?
Building Your Pond
There’s no reason why you could not build a pond in one day, even though that purely depends on the size of the pond you had like to have in your yard. The first thing you will need to do is find an area of the garden that is most suitable for keeping a pond. Make sure it is ?
- Close to the house as you will need power to supply your pump with, unless of course you have an external outdoor power socket.
- Do not build your pond at the bottom of a slope, because when it rains, dirty water will runs down & into the pond, maybe containing chemicals from your garden.
- Try to place it in an area where it will have access to at least 4 hours of sunlight. Your pond plants will require sunlight to stay healthy.
- Do not place it in an area directly under leaf dropping trees. There is more. There is more. The last thing you want to have to do is clean all the leaves out of your pond every day.
Finally once you have found a suitable position to build your pond, you can now start digging! You’ll need to ?
- Decide on the shape & size of the pond. Use the rope to outline the shape you want & then begin digging. Do you follow? That’s why you need a couple of helping hands so that the work gets done faster!
- Do not go for a small pond for goldfish because they need space. Also attempt & keep different levels of depth, as in a swimming pool. Mark out the shallow areas & the deeper areas. There is more. There is more. This would give the pool a natural variety.
- Usually ponds in moderate climates should be at least 2 feet deep while in colder climates, you would need to make certain that the pond is deep enough to allow for at least 12″ to 16″ of water below the freeze zone.
- Dig according to the shape you want & dig a shelf-like level around the perimeter of the pond, which is about one foot deep & one foot wide. Also make provisions for a waterfall by digging a slight slope to one end.
- Time now to position the external pond filters. If you have pond skimmers as well, then you would need to place & level these in the proper places. Also dig a ditch to the external pond pump from the skimmer & from the pump to the external pond filter or waterfall.
Next you will need to line your tank with a pond underlayment that you can pick up at any hardware or landscaping wholesaler.
- Now you have to line the pond with what’s called as Pond Underlayment. This is a lining that can be cut according to the shape needed & can be taped together. This underlayment will help the pond lining to stay in place.
- You can now put the rubber pond liner into pond & spread it out.
- Make sure you smoothen the folds & position it evenly. Some folds will still be there but the water will take care of that.
So that is the building process of a garden pond, from there you will need to add in a pump that is correctly matched to the size of your pond as well as purchasing plants & other accessories to add to the pond.
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