My son and I put in the small pond last month, Last week I added a Lily and we put some rock around it. Planted Cannas along 2 sides for shade and scattered some old sun baked pieces of mesquite around it. This morning I go out and there are NO lily pads floating. I go out for a closer look and all of the pads are shredded and floating around the edges of the pond. Seems my Dachshund had fun shredding them. So, I moved the Dachshund to the side yard much to her dismay hehe. The Lily pads will grow back as the plant itself is unharmed. Just gonna take a few weeks.
I will post pics again when they are back and by that time the cannas should be up pretty tall. I put 6 guppies in the pond last week to keep mosquitos out for the time being, until I can find some goldfish. My local lfs didn't have any. While I was picking the shredded leaves out tho I did see several baby guppies. I also tossed in a handful of pond snails.
Can't wait to get the large pond in. I found a large Octagon shaped Hot tub someone dumped and we are going to bury it and make it into a pond. It still has all the filter hoses attached all I have to do it hook it up to my pump. I am estimating it to be about 400 gallons.
Pic of my small pond
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