I’m the process of remodeling my fish room. The big addition is going to be a 1100 gallon indoor pond to house my Stingrays and a few other fun things. This is my first attempt at building a pond. I watched just about every YouTube video out there and read a ton of different posts on MFK. Ultimately I decided to go with a design similar to what Joey on DIY King did for his predator pond. Ideally I would have loved to get a large tank vs building a pond. But I was limited in the size tank bu the door way into the fish room. So a pond seemed like the next best option. I didn’t do a window simply to save on costs and time building. This one this will mainly be for breeding rays, the look down only still will show the rays well.
Just thought I would share a few pics as I am building. Please let me know thoughts, Opinions/Suggestions. This is my first attempt so figuring out a lot along the way ....
I am a experienced hobbies with my share of large tanks. Just never did a pond before
I will be doing a three barrel set up for the filter and using an external pump. I went with the external pump because I didn’t want to cut the liner for bulk heads or have a pump sitting in the pond. I am using a 30 mil blue liner. Wanted to do a 45 mil liner, but I could only find in black. BD rays on black liner just didn’t make sense. Hoping 30 mil should be thick enough?? Especially since this is indoors and temp controlled. I will be booking up a heat exchanger off my hot water tank to control temp.
Any advice on this set up from people who have done it ?
Thanks
Tom
Just thought I would share a few pics as I am building. Please let me know thoughts, Opinions/Suggestions. This is my first attempt so figuring out a lot along the way ....
I am a experienced hobbies with my share of large tanks. Just never did a pond before
I will be doing a three barrel set up for the filter and using an external pump. I went with the external pump because I didn’t want to cut the liner for bulk heads or have a pump sitting in the pond. I am using a 30 mil blue liner. Wanted to do a 45 mil liner, but I could only find in black. BD rays on black liner just didn’t make sense. Hoping 30 mil should be thick enough?? Especially since this is indoors and temp controlled. I will be booking up a heat exchanger off my hot water tank to control temp.
Any advice on this set up from people who have done it ?
Thanks
Tom
