I made a Skimmer out of an IKEA trash bin

[ADHDiy_Guy]

I have gotten a new pond up and running recently, and have a few weeks of testing out of the way so I can feel confident in the design I am gonna share here for the skimmer I made myself.

I didn’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for a skimmer, and I didn’t feel like the “in pond” skimmers were going to work with my relatively low-flow water pump, so I spent all of $15 and made my own!

I currently have the skimmer sitting on one of the corner shelves of the pond, and it is ‘hidden’ under a faux rock that I got for free, but that isn’t necessary. I can empty the skimmer by lifting the faux rock and lifting out the screen, or just dipping a small net in to grab anything out.

Here is a photo of it in the pond, as well as a YouTube video I uploaded with how I built it.

 

[Lisak1]

Good job! Great demo and excellent instrucitions on how a skimmer works and how to build your own. Every pond needs a skimmer - or skimming action of some type. The surface shimmer you get from a skimmed pond is definitely different than a still pond.

The modern garden pond industry was born out of Greg Wittstock experimenting with garbage cans and plastic bins to figure out the best way to build components that would maintain an ecosystem pond. Aquascape was the result of all his tinkering. And you're clearly having fun, which is the best part!

 

[addy1]

How neat! Great job