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Actually just feeder goldfish this year. I saved them and plan is too keep 6 of them and give away the rest as my indoor tank too small. I hadn't planned so many would survive after my daughter asked for them. We have raccoons , hawk and cats but I guess all the caves I built work.Welcome jack. Love your pond. Are those comets in your pond?
I would say many more hours starrng at it then moving things than work. I have skimmer opposite of the waterfall which I did not have in my first pond. Soon discovered even with this one that between spring leaves blowing around then all the tree flowers etc that a skimmer is first priority and a bog is number two must have. The pond pump is 2000 GPh in the skimmer to the bio falls. Both were bought used off kijiji. I also have two other pumps both small. One under the rock stairway to the right of the falls where my daughter enters the pond and it feeds the bog. The bog has 2 inch grid pipes with slits cut and feeds up through the 12 inches or so of all pea gravel. I also added a venturi air injector that I made into the elbow that you can see air bubbles rise into bog from the grid. The other half of bog behind the falls (which was an addition) has another grid about 3x3 feet with same pipe but it takes some of the water from the skimmer as I tapped into that line to run it. The second pump is hidden behind island under a old clay broken pot and it feeds the settling / reflection pond to the left. I am not sure of the gph on those two pumps as I bought a crate full of stuff at an auction. Both those pumps have a cage which had foam pre filters bit I removed the foam as to not starve the bog or create any additional maintenance.That looks fantastic. Looks like hours and hours of work. What is your pump system like? How many GPH, where is it hidden?
What is an "ice ridge"?
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