ahahaha "if you don't like your waterfall rip apart and do it again" this is honestly the biggest truth of it all...I did my pond last year and this year i ripped apart my waterfall cause i was so disappointed with it. Even though I worked hard on it , it felt even better to rip it apart and start over. Good info i hope others take that into consideration too.
Hi Xavier, Thank you! No, on this pond, the main circulation is the “cross flow” from the waterfall, which is on the opposite side of the skimmer filter. I do have a pond power head that can be moved around the pond and help improve circulation. Ecosystem ponds don’t use bottom drains, mainly because the gravel would clog it; the benefit of having gravel, besides looks, is 2 fold: it exponentially increases surface area for beneficial bacteria, and the koi like to forage & root around in the gravel.
I have water flooding my yard. I found where it’s coming out of the ground on the hill, I’m trying to figure out if to redirect it into a waterfall landscape and send it out the way it been flowing so my yard isn’t flooded all the time and I have a beautiful landscape. Any advice, I’m thinking PCP pipes somehow where the water comes out to redirect it
Sounds like you have a spring. I would try to build a dry creek bed, which is like a pondless waterfall, but with underlayment fabric, instead of liner. That allows the water to soak into the ground. That’ll direct it somewhat where you want it to go. That could be SO cool! So much opportunity to grow plants in that situation. Maybe an aquatic plant garden, but in the ground? Id google who your local certified Aquascape contractor is, and get their opinion actually seeing it in person.
Hi Cesar, I actually haven’t covered that. If you want to use really big rocks, you’d need and excavator and a rock strap, and/or a “dingo” type machine. For this pond, the heaviest boulder was 150 pounds, which I didn’t pick up, I just tipped over wheelbarrows and carts to get it in and out of my truck and then rolled it into place. I stacked slate for the lower shelf, and the rest of the boulders I used 💪🏼 Thanks for your comment!
@@TheBarefootedGardener Appreciate the reply! I bought a few bigger heavier rocks just for my garden and having to place them in the best possible way, after repeatedly moving them around, adding soil, removing soil was exhausting. The rocks used for your pond look bigger than the ones I used so how long did it take before you were satisfied with the placement?
No problem! It is exhausting work, definitely. Most of the boulders were about 100 pounds. Regarding rocking in the pond- waterfalls are a bit more detailed- generally, I’ll either hand pick a rock for a specific use like for a focal point stone. for the rest of the pond I’ll only mess with one particular stone two or three times to fit it in, and move on to another one. That will take less time as you continue to work with rocks, and especially if you observe nature and how water interacts. So making sure you’ve got a good assortment of stone is also important. It’s very much a process of “getting in the groove” which is when progress (and time) really starts moving.
So there is a skimmer box that has the pumps draw in the water, and then tubing is attached and glued to a ‘flex pvc’ pipe, which takes it up to the waterfall filter and then back down and so on. The filtration rate can be measured by how quickly this happens in your pond.
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