I am currently building my new pond. I am recording a diary of the project which is available online.

I will post again when I update it.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks,

Daniel

I echo what Alison said about making the pond as big as possible!!! Are you too far gone for that??????

Good diary... have you used 'word' and pasted pics?

Yes I did use word, I could have done it the old HTML way but i'm too lazy, plus word seems to work well.

I have made it as big as I can, mainly because it will cost too much to build it any bigger, also I would have to increase pump and filter capacity.

I would like the liner that way for the exact reason that it hides it and also if the wall isn't exactly level it disguises that as well. I think the trick is to get a runny adhesive and cover the liner with sand at the point the bricks will be cemented. Leave to dry to give a rough surface with some bite to cement.

Incidently pumps will be a Bladgon Torrent 4000LPH pump and a Trident maximum 600LPH pump. The Bladgon will pump up to 3 skippy filters (like the green ones in the picture) which will reduce flow rate in the tanks to 1200LPH ish accounting for head loss per tank. These will then outflow into another tub possibly via a spraybar containing Kaldnes K1 which will be aerated by airstones before returning to the pond.

Thanks,

Daniel

Blog updated, will update again soon with slightly different filtration setup than shown in blog.

Thanks,

Daniel