New Tropical Pond

[tuggerd]

This time its going to be bigger and better. My idea is to have a swimming pond/fish pond. I've already made a dry run with a 3,000 gallon pond and its working perfectly. This one will be about 20,000 gallons with a bog, two filter/skimmers, and 3 bottom drains to remove the solids. To start out with I've just turned my yard into a major mess. If anyone is inerested here is my previous post with the first tropical pond.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1988279#post1988279

Feel free to give me tips along the way. I have a feeling I'll be needing plenty. I dug down and hit like natural concrete base in which to build upon. In the top of the last picture you can see where the natural bog is going to go. There will be two fountains, each coming from the skimmers.

 

[freshwaterfishing]

Very nice and exciting. Cant wait for the updates.

 

[Nic]

wow gonna be awesome....

 

[fishkeeper25]

cant wait for updates

 

[tuggerd]

I figured I'd throw some more info out there. In my older tropical pond I have a 1,200 gallon per hour pump, a 25 watt UV light with the water flowing through a bog and a waterfall. There are about 30 Dovii's in there and the water is crystal clear. I do about 20% water changes per week. Mainly because of the evaporation because its hot as hell right now. Based on what I've been reading about filtration and pond size I'm really under equiped. But I've had the water tested and its within swimming quality. Humm. I guess I'm not doing to bad then.

 

[BigTim15]

that looks great already....are you still looking to stock it with some pbass?

 

[indiana.dutton]

lookin good! good luck!

 

[wow]

Look awesome, looking forward to update!

 

[fish4sale]

nice wish i could do that wife wants a pool i want a pond i told her she can swim in the pond we are still fighting about it

 

[Muske]

Where's the diving board going?