DIY Garden Pond Taken Over By Cattails! 

Same. Hugs from bohemian forest

They seem to really enjoy the warmth. I need to get the dome re-installed for summer, it's finally getting past freezing in Minnesota!

Ha, wish I'd thought of that at the time!

Thanks! Sometimes there's too much going on 😂

I've done a few pond videos, unfortunately we built most of it before I was really doing RU-vid stuff. The pump and pipes get turned off for the winter. The fish just kind of hang out at the bottom and dont' do much, we do have a small heater and bubbler to keep an air space open in the ice. The buried pipes have heat tape, although I'm pretty sure there's a leak in one of them. When we dig it up and re-do the swamp I'm going to replace some of the plumbing so it's aboveground and easier to maintain.

It's a lot of work, but it sure is fun! The local wildlife love it, we get tons of birds and critters. The goldfish are also fun to watch.

I actually did a corndog video back when I was in the midst of this project! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TVJMbT47bcw.html

I actually did a corndog video back when I was in the midst of this project! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TVJMbT47bcw.html

Ouch, they seem to be super random which areas get them. Sometimes one neighborhood will have huge hail and a mile away has nothing. And then of course a dozen roofers from Texas call and say they can scam your insurance out of free money since there was hail within 100 miles 😂

@@saveitforparts that's a fact. I just stopped answering my door

Yep! We have a few limestone chunks with fossils, they're pretty cool. Some of them we found right in the yard when we were digging the hole for the pond (There's an old limestone building foundation there).

@@saveitforparts So cool! I'd die to have a fossil in my hand for real! In this part of the world where I live, there is no limestones or other fossil bearing rocks that I know of. I'm surrounded with laterite stones.

I tried some, but it wasn't really the right season to get much out of them. I have a video on it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TVJMbT47bcw.html

Not yet. They've tried to touch the fish but haven't actually gone in.

I'm not sure, we've tried to avoid having limestone and cement *in* the pond, since it can leach stuff into the water. We've used clay bricks and terracotta flowerpots in the pond as fish shelters and landscaping and it hasn't seemed to hurt anything. We did notice that the more natural bricks tend to crumble and decay if submerged for a long time.

Never mind, I just tried it and I'm flabbergasted and blown away. It does work! lol

@@realemonful it's basically negative pressure of the air bubble in the dome 'sucking' in the water or acting like a spring attached to the water and the top of the dome. I hope you understand, I used google translate. You can also recreate that visually by putting a tea light into a plate filled with a little bit of water/juice (better visual), lighting up the tea light, putting a glas above it so it goes out and the air inside build up negative pressure and sucks the water in - www.experimentis.de/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/304Kerzenaufzug500-150x150.jpg Because of the fact, that water is not compressible it stays in the dome being held up by negative pressure of the air bubble.

It has to be at least 24" deep to keep the fish in it all winter (around here at least). Ours is more like 36" deep, that keeps it from fully freezing and gives the fish a place to not-quite-hibernate at the bottom.