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Message: [QUOTE="KB1ankenship, post: 123770, member: 4309"] Thanks for the input. I like the idea of a milk crate, as I want something with openings in it for the fish to be able to go in and out of. I have cleaned out the strawberry pot, but have not found the rocks I want to put in it yet. For now, until I get the strawberry pot going, a buddy of mine had me set up a temporary type filter and constant water change. We took two 15 gallon plastic bins with lids, and used one for a filter, and one for water addition. For the water to be constantly added to the pond, we drilled a hole in the bottom of the plastic bin, and put I think 1/8 inch tubing into it. The tubing is capped off on the end and we used small nails to punch holes in the tubing at the end. We filled the bin with water, and put the tubing into a gallon jug, and with a few more holes, and an egg timer, we got the flow to around .15 - .2 gallons an hour. Until my girlfriend finds the perfect wooden barrel she likes for the backyard, the plastic bin seems to be working ok for now. To give me a temporary filter, my buddy found a 250 gph pump in my shed the previous owner left. On one of my filter/fountain boxes, we swapped out the 140 gph pump for the 250 gph pump, on the fountain tube, added a t bar with a flow control knob and put tubing off the t bar going out into the other 15 gallon bin. We drilled a hole in the top of the 15 gallon bin, and ran the tubing from the pump through the top of the bin, down to the bottom. We then filled the bin with 120 sponges from the .99 store, and 10 bio balls that did not fit into the fountain box due to the larger pump. On the top side of the bin we drilled another hole, and have the same 1/8" tubing coming out back into the pond. We played with the flow knob until we got it to fill the bin with sponges just enough that the tube going back into the pond is not 100% under water, it is sucking a little air with the water as well. When you stand right next to the plastic bin, you can hear it sucking air. To keep the bin from sucking in so to speak, we punched holes in the top lid to let air go in. Here are pictures of my additions from this weekend: [ATTACH]44256.IPB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]44257.IPB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]44258.IPB[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]44259.IPB[/ATTACH] I am now also starting to get a green layer on all my rocks, and a little on the sides of the pond, but my water is clear, so that is all good with me, but my ammonia level is still around 2.0. I am still using the ammo lock, and hopefully, I will soon start to see a reduction of ammonia. [/QUOTE]

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