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Message: [QUOTE="pecan, post: 295278, member: 3991"] [USER=7251]@slick[/USER] this was my very first pond. Got a wild hair and a few beers in me and the son in law and I started digging by hand while the hubby was at work. LOL in 2011 it was very simple, a big hole with a liner and a pump to a water fall. No filtration at all. I just had comets the first couple years and slowly started expanding the waterfall and adding filtration after the fact. Then in 2013 IIRC we added a few Koi. Now looking back I would have done a lot of things differently but isn't that always the way with our fist ponds? Now I have the waterfall and plumbing around it the way I want, I foresee in the years to come the pond will be re-dug deeper with bottom drains added. I built the waterfall and filtration in a way that we can remove the pond liner, re-dig the pond and install a new liner with minimal impact to the falls and filters. Just move a few rocks in the front and tuck the new pond liner up under the liner of the falls. But in the meantime I am slowly getting rid of all the comets and not getting anymore koi. When the time comes to dig I don't want a lot of fish to worry about finding a temp water hole for. I am thinking maybe around 2020 or so we will take on that little project and until then I rest ;) [/QUOTE]