New Tropical Pond

[tuggerd]

What I thought was going to be incredible relaxing wildlife habitat has back fired. Or maybe its just how I'm looking at the situation. I have a pair of yellow breasted SOB's that have nested in some of the orchids that I have placed on my palms. It just so happens that my relaxing day of cleaning my other pond has turned into quite the stressful ordeal. It's bad enough that as I'm up to my arm pits in water pulling the old lilies out thinking about my 6lb. territorial Guapotes I have these birds dive bombing my head. They do it at random intervals though. So just as I start relaxing I get this shreaking sound followed by gusts of air by my ear. For some odd reason though they don't seem to dive bomb the 5 ft workers.

Here are some other photos of my weeked of planting.

 

[mrunlucky07]

I have been keeping up with your posts and its coming along nicely. Certainly making me jealous of your climate too.

 

[chefjamesscott]

man I am just envisioning this after all the construction is cleared and cleaned up what a killer killer pond that is gonna be

 

[indiana.dutton]

Your bog is looking really good

 

[Mr. Grumpy Gills]

could have been worse. you could have gotten an alligator in there like my aunt had in her back yard.

 

[tuggerd]

I scrubbed the last bit of concrete off of the rock on the water falls. The grout is about done with the pebbel work. I think all of the cracks are plugged. Holy crap! I'm about ready to fill this baby.

 

[chefjamesscott]

very nice

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how does that bog thing work with the rocks just wondering, are plants going in there ?

 

[tuggerd]

I'm going to attempt to wash out all of the dirt from the plants that I think will grow in the water. The idea is that because the plants won't have dirt to take the nutrients from they will have to find it from the water itself. Thus leaving my pool/pond water with less nutrients. Hopefully meaning clear pond water. I often wonder though, what percentage do the plants themselves take out of the water compared to what they leave behind with dieing plant material? Anybody?

 

[chefjamesscott]

i have an idea works in bigger set ups

killer uv along the way after the bog

if im understanding the build properly, though I may have missed it the bog will be to take out nutrients and you have killer filtration so I am pretty sure if you attach a uv as last step for return water any algae would just be nil

 

[tuggerd]

I have a uv light for my 3,000 gallon pond that I used for the first year. I havn't used it now for about 8 months and the water is crystal clear. Yes I did need it for the first 6 months. I suppose that once my filter matured it took care of the floating algae. I'm thinking about putting a uv light in one of the waterfall entrances for a while. Just to give the water clarity a little boost.