sissy said:
geeze similar to my plant pockets for plants .I just sewed window screening with fishing line to hang into the water over the side of the pond .At least the way I sewed them but don't understand what sand in a pocket does in the bottom of a pond .Do they plant something in them or does stuff just grow on them .Liners grow stuff
Sort of the opposite of a planter ring, and it's not meant to "contain" anything. But picture a planter ring BEFORE you have the bottom sewn together. Instead of making the RING bouyant, you want it to sink to the bottom, so picture that planter ring lying up-side-down in the water. The material he used, the geotextile (I like the idea of window screening, but it has to want to float up) is slightly buoyant. The sand-in-pocket holds the fabric stuff down, to keep it anchored to the bottom. He then has the fabric cut in vertical strips. So picture an up-side-down planter ring sitting on the bottom with the fabric strips undulating up-ward in the water like a plant. His intent (I think) was to create something like "room dividers" within the water space. The fish are free to swim anywhere, unrestricted, it really doesn't take up any space, yet gives the fish the illusion of individual "territories," or "rooms." And an added benefit WAS that stuff COULD GROW on it for the fish to eat.
What I picture, is with the sand-pocket bottom, you can just drop one in and let it settle in a natural configuration -- like a ring-shape, but not restricted to that shape. Or you make it ring-shaped.... Like a row of plants. Not that I need anything like that, but think I'm going to make one and see what it does. I don't think it would trap debris (the sand pocket isn't very wide, but might take experimentation) and when you clean the pond I think it would be easy to move around and/or take out of the pond.
Hhmmmm.....Wishing I could change this topic title....
