Pond Rock Calculations: How to Determine What You Need 

Never thought we would watch a white board but this was a valuable video Ed. Could save everyone time and energy know all this information. No more guessing games

Ed love this video! I would love for you to keep posting things with you totally geeking out with calculations, biology, and everything else you know about ponds! Keep up the good work.

Class is in session! Love these in depth videos Ed!

More vids like this please😆

It's gorgeous! I'm sure the alligators will love it too💚

Very informative lecture 👍🏻

So much knowledge in that head no wonder there's no room for hair!!! LOVE your Video's!!!

I have been wanting this calculation for larger boulders for a while. Fantastic explanation! Thanks Ed!

I a going to watch this full video when kids are sleeping... I need the refresher! Thank you Ed!

Awesome project and great explanation as usual 👊🏼

Great info. Way to go professor!

This information is so helpful to anyone building a pond! Keep the videos coming!

what a wonderful class session...... need more video like this and technical stuff

Excellent video ED these videos are the ones I wish I had when I was building my pond

Ed, you are the next Julius Sumner Miller! Thank you for this, whe I go to build my first aquascape pond, I was definitely wondering how I’d figure out how much rock to obtain. Thanks!

Ed the Educator 👨‍🏫👍

After 7 weeks of binging on aquascape videos I found this one the most informative Almost like going to A.U. If there are more like this on different pond building aspects I would sure like to see them Between studying your bible and videos like these I am slowly getting there Thanks

Thank you so much Ed! I have been watching these videos for so long and when I tried to create a pool pond version of a Wetland filter I realized I didn't really understand the entire flow. Now it makes total sense! Thank you!

Great explanation of rock calculations! Thanks for the refresher.

Thank you Ed for this awesome video, and for explaining things so well. Especially love the concept of an intake bay followed by a wetland filter. And of course, the organic shapes and sexy curves of your ponds :)

If I was taking a test in pondology i would have a great cheat sheet. Thanks ed. Keep up the great videos & awesome knowledge sharing!

Extremely practical and useful. All of our contractors should watch this!

Grat video Ed! Thank you for discussing some of the various types of stone and weights!

Awesome video, I learned a lot and know this is going to be very helpful in the future. You need to do more videos like this that help with learning the details behind the build. Ed, you are a great asset to Aquascape.

Good information. Great video. I love these type of videos as much as Greg's blogs.

I inherited bog chunks of land over 500 acres but just know that ever since I developed a passion for the waterfalls,every other time I just find my self visualizing how to construct waterfalls in the hilly areas in this land in order to develop it.

Very clear explanation. Thank you!

Thanks Ed... keep em coming!

Another great video Ed! See you soon.

Love these type of videos Ed, appreciate all the knowledge you share!! please keep putting out this type of content, it's different from the other Aquascape videos which is great. Can you please do a whole video on creating negative edges for ponds? Thank you for the content, can't wait to see more.

Just awesome. Nuff said!

THANK YOU! So informative - great video to bookmark and reference back to!

Thanks Ed cya down at Iguanaland!

I love this video. Very informative and you gave detailed explanation.

Love your videos! Learning is Fun when u teach 😀

Very helpful, thanks for the information Ed!!

Fantastic video Ed! I would love to see more like this. Feels like I'm at an Aquascape academy again. It would be awesome to see more expensive filtration drawings for recreation ponds!

These videos are so helpful Ed

Cool upload! Love the math!

Nice lowdown on rock quantities!

Very informative . I cant wait to see it!

Great Video Ed!! Really enjoyed it

Just amazing

i love watching your videos

I love your job 👍👍👊

Thank you so much for this! Now I know what kind of rock I need to be looking for to best meet my budget. 😊

Nice video, Ed

@Ed Beaulieu; @Ed the pond Professor - I think I have a good question...Preface - I have a front yard pond that cleaned out in August of 2021 during our drought and now I am calculating stone for it this evening. Here in the Twin Cities its frozen solid, so I was able to get an accurate perimeter, yay for 8 degrees in March - BTW the 0.75 multiplier was spot on for my pond - AMAZING!! Anyway, on with the question… I went back and found this video because I knew it explained exactly what to do. At approx. 14:30 in this video, you are calculating the second shelf. 25x15x2x0.85=68LF x 1' (stone depth) you mention stone height of 2' but then don't take it into the equation to get your overall cubic feet. Your equation then becomes 68x1x140# = 9520#s/2000 = 4.76 Tons. I believe it should be doubled to account for the 2FT height of the stones or 19,040#/2000# = 9.52 Tons. Let me know your thoughts on this. I’ll look you up this spring/summer when I can make it to Aqua Land. Keep up the great content, this is what us aspiring pond builders and future CAC's need. Thank you again! BC

Thank you! This comes at the perfect time for me, since I need to order rocks!

Fantastic video! If I may provide some constructive criticism, as a lecturer presentation skills are something that I personally have to work on all the time, your presentation is brilliant but can I suggest staying away from green and red markers, as persons with color blindness issues will struggle... I suggest for demonstration purposes use black, blue and purple markers....Again great video, learnt alot😊

The “little pumping area” is a big as my pond! I wish you’ll could see it! I created it from $400 and the 3/4 of that was liner and $100 in rock and whatever rock I could find at my local creek! I just got done build my turtle pond next to it and I’m about to post that video in a couple days

thank you

This helps!

Thanks a lot ! This was substantial. Two questions: 1) You did not mention a fountain. Would that be omitted? And if so, what about the oxygenation needed for efficient biological filtration? 2) In aquariums it is not advisable to use materials that increase water hardness. The sediment rocks you mentioned seems to be of just that kind - par excellence. What is your experience with this type of rock in ponds? Do they really change water hardness notably? If yes, is this neutered, if biological filtering is efficient enough?

Hi. Can you also do a video about walter calculation for the pond...

Any recommendations on rock in southern Illinois that’s not super expensive? Love your channel btw!

good that i dont judge people from how they write eight ^^

the man the myth the legend ..................................................................😎

Would the stones you talked about using in florida have a chance for causing more algae being that they are compressed with all sorts of material? Also do they pose greater risks in ripping liner?

Prof, can you explain how do you estimate the size of the wetland filter in your next video

Thanks! For your gravel on the bottom of the pond. What size do you usually use and how deep? With a wetland filter and neg edge do you need to "clean out" the bottom gravel every year? Or does it stay clean enough without draining and cleaning? thanks

Hi Ed. I am from canada. How deep of a pond will I need to overwinter a snapping turtle?

What’s the advantage to an intake bay as opposed to a negative edge? Is the pump suction enough to prevent that debris from escaping? I’ll practice and play with these calculations on my pond I already built. Some of it is slate or shale (flat rock) but I’m not sure it’s density.

Just to clarify, granite is in no way a metamorphic stone, it is igneous. Also, the old reef bed stone is not a conglomerate, it's bioclastic which is different than a conglomerate. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock consisting of >50% clasts that (typically) rounded to subrounded. I'm a geologist

I would have used some of the returns to create big areas to mimics some swamp land . On a side note I would like to see a stoneless pond as some areas don't have big stones

Ed, I'm going over this again and in the lower step where you use two rocks staggered, you did linear feet x 1. Why isn't it lf x 1x 2 for the height?

So your system is awesome and everything. But how does a natural Wetland Wetland filter work,

Because I am just one person, working without any equipment, I have wondered about making "faux" stone out of concrete. Not for inside the pond, but on the outer areas -- something to look like the top of a very large boulder - giving the appearance of just the top exposed above the soil. Is this safe for use around a wildlife/fish pond? Or can chemicals from the concrete (rain runoff) be harmful?

Hey Ed, If I already have the hole dug, should I physically measure or still use the math you just taught us? Do you have this in metric?

By the way, just out of curiosity, how is the tonnage of rocks estimated at the rock yards? Do they weight them on some scales or they are estimated by volume x density?

Hi Ed, Abel is my name and I want a hands on training cause back in my country in Uganda the market is there but this is untapped territory which I would very much tap in cause am already a national swimming coach back in my Uganda but I very much have my love and passion in waterfalls construction. Please advise me. I don't mind for a start going online just in case you have anything happening online like a course.

Pond Professor, shiiiiiiiiiiiiit, are you kiddin' me, c'mon now... ...his Royal Magesty, The Emperor Lord Beaulieu is more like the Supreme Pond Potentate for the entire Western Hemisphere!! 👑

How much rocks cost? Goes by the pound??

JUST KNOW AM HUNGRY TO LEARN HOW TO CONSTRUCT WATERFALLS FEATURES IF YOU GIVE ME CHANCE TO LEARN OR PRACTICALLY DO IT OR JOIN YOUR PRACTICAL CLASSES.

2+2=6

Granite is an igneous rock*

Cool. But stop using this ancient measurements. You talk about a tones of stone but than you go to inches and feet. Its outdated