Jaxom_Ruatha
Aquarium Advice Activist
Now for my topic post I wanted to do a developing diary of the construction of my pond to the present time where I am pretty satisfied with it, although it may still need a fish or two (Preferably a mostly red shubunkin 
), LOL.
Here's where we manually broke ground and dug it out in late August of 2004. My brother didn't want his picture on the internet so I blacked out some of him but I didn't want to destroy the picture so I left some since I was kind of in a hurry:
Here we laid down pieces of insulation so the tarp wouldn't get holes, and would have some cushion for support. Again I blacked out most of my brother and sister and myself just becuase it looked odd with only one person being visible (How do you like my bright lime-green shorts? )
Next we layed down the tarp:
Next we filled it up with gravel, decorations and utilities after securing it with the cement (we used chicken wire as a frame for the cement):
This is after the fish survived the Winter, with a few floating and submerged plants,(and the cycling process which I didn't find out about in time):
This is now, with one mini Texas Dawn lilly and one large lilly, lots of floating plants, some submerged plants, a resident dragonfly, tadpoles, frogs, and the fish found in my signature. Unfortunately while I was on vacation the people caring for my pond weren't quite as goldy knowledgable as I would have liked and the bubble eye goldfish died, her name was Beauty and here is a picture of her after having her for only nine months:
Now of the pond present time:
But we did have some fish spawn, the mosquito fish and so now we have a bunch of tiny fish all about, it was no wonder with the water lettuce thriving and getting such lush, bushy roots as these:
This pic has one of the fry in the bottom right corner:
Lastly here is a nice pic of my Shih Tzu dog Gohan with his Summer shave:
Well that's all folks, hope you enjoy!
), LOL.Here's where we manually broke ground and dug it out in late August of 2004. My brother didn't want his picture on the internet so I blacked out some of him but I didn't want to destroy the picture so I left some since I was kind of in a hurry:
Here we laid down pieces of insulation so the tarp wouldn't get holes, and would have some cushion for support. Again I blacked out most of my brother and sister and myself just becuase it looked odd with only one person being visible (How do you like my bright lime-green shorts?
)
Next we layed down the tarp:
Next we filled it up with gravel, decorations and utilities after securing it with the cement (we used chicken wire as a frame for the cement):
This is after the fish survived the Winter, with a few floating and submerged plants,(and the cycling process which I didn't find out about in time):
This is now, with one mini Texas Dawn lilly and one large lilly, lots of floating plants, some submerged plants, a resident dragonfly, tadpoles, frogs, and the fish found in my signature. Unfortunately while I was on vacation the people caring for my pond weren't quite as goldy knowledgable as I would have liked and the bubble eye goldfish died, her name was Beauty and here is a picture of her after having her for only nine months:
Now of the pond present time:
But we did have some fish spawn, the mosquito fish and so now we have a bunch of tiny fish all about, it was no wonder with the water lettuce thriving and getting such lush, bushy roots as these:
This pic has one of the fry in the bottom right corner:
Lastly here is a nice pic of my Shih Tzu dog Gohan with his Summer shave:
Well that's all folks, hope you enjoy!
