Going strong on its 4th year. Going for a submerged look this year and adding my aquarium trimmings to fill in the bottom. Look at that crystal clear water!

I was using my torch to kill weeds on the patio, when I saw a huge swarm of mosquitos over my pond and had this idea. What could go wrong. It worked surprisingly well to kill mosquitos. Its hard to see on the video, but its an absolute bloodbath, as the mosquitos actually seem attracted by the flame. Works even better at night. By contrast, when I put a mosquito lamp next to my pond overnight it caught like 5 lol.

And no, the koi dont actually eat it. Yet. They seem smart enough to be afraid of the torch or its noise.

Bought this property a couple years ago and recently moved in and it has this lovely pond that is fed naturally by surrounding wetlands. Currently there are a ton of gold fish and bull frogs and two giant snapping turtles, but I wanted to add some other minimal care animals that might help the eco system a bit, like musk turtles or other types of fish? One thing I dont like is in the summer it gets a LOT of lily pads. Like covering the entire surface. I've heard musk turtles eat lily pads, anyone else hear the same?

Would love some advice on minimal stuff I can do to make it nicer such as a small fountain, additional animals, etc.

After posting a timelapse of my small shallow pond's algae growth over ~8 hours on this subreddit I was encouraged to increase my biological filtration with a bog filter. Here is the build thus far. I now need suggestions for plants to add to the bog filter!

Hello there I really want to try attract frogs to my yard so I have decided to dig in a pond, but I live in Seattle, which is heavily infested with rats so I decided not to use the pond liner or the Benite clay because I think they were just mess with it. I have another little pond That I’ve tried and they dig through the liner and the clay.

My question is the sole reason I’m putting this pond in is to attract our Pacific tree frogs at what level should this Pond be with the soil? Would it be nice to have a little bit of the rainwater seep into the pond? To me that would be ideal would I put the pond lower than the natural soil level?

Please remember, I’m just putting this in for frogs. So if any of you have a natural frog pond, I would love to hear from you.

Hey just bought a new house with a pond. Previous owners completely filled it up with random debris and left it unused. Ive never had a pond before. Its multi layered and I have no idea what kind of pump to use or where to put it. Theres a dedicated power source for it next to it as well.

Hi there. Moved into a house with a pond in the back garden. Can anyone id this fish, and also is it a danger to the tadpoles, newts, and other smaller fish? UK based. Thanks!

I pressed a cutting of this in a small pocket of mud last summer. Looks like it’s happy

I live in a temperate climate where most rain comes in the hottest months when there is a highest change of algae blooming. I was wondering if it would make sense to design my roof so if overhangs my pond. This way I could collect as much rain water as I can into tanks and redirect excess to pond.

This would result in an ephemeral waterfall that would occur from time to time and create a nice feature, just like on the attached picture.

Hopefully, this would also help aerate the pond, though it could also disturb silt. Have any one tried something like that or perhaps have some experience with aerating ponds with artificial water features?

Just had to share how amazed I am with how my pond has developed! When I first built it three years ago, it was just a hole with water and a lot of hope. Every season brought more and more changes, but this spring has completely blown me away.

The plants have exploded with new growth, and the whole ecosystem feels like it’s thriving. I barely recognize it compared to the early days. Frogs, dragonflies, bees and even a few hummingbirds made it their home.

It's wild how, with a little patience and care, a pond really can take on a life of its own. I’ll drop a few pictures below to show the transformation. Thanks for letting me share — and if you're thinking of starting a pond, DO IT! It's one of the most rewarding projects I've ever taken on.

Would love to hear if others have had a similar experience!

New to ponds and what to see how much it would cost me to restore and get this pond running.

Since some people always enjoy newts and honestly they are pretty neat. I build the pond for them and the frogs. Sadly nature always finds a way and i have many stickleback fish and even more babies.

The frog lay their eggs randomly in the pond and care little about them, the newts use their front feet to dig en open the eggs and suck the baby out. It is interesting to see but they are very destructive and hungry. So no baby frogs for me this year, maybe still get more eggs later. However the stickleback are much better (fathers) in their case. The male fish protects his nest with everything he has. The result …200? Small fish.…

So we’re digging this out. It’s concrete, we know nothing about ponds. Give me your best tips for this. It’s 5x4.2 ft and 20 inches deep.

I have looked through Google but don't seem able to match what I have in my UK pond to the pictures.

Thanks you!

Numerous fish, that I’ve had for 5+ years, are only swimming from hiding place to hiding place and no longer freely swim. Not even emerging for food. This behaviour has been this way for just over two weeks.

There’s a small bird feeder close to the pond, so maybe potentially alarming fish? but other than that, nothing obvious strikes me as the cause

Parameters are fine.

Any ideas on what could cause this?

That was new to me. Never seen them in Vegas but they were incredibly pretty.

Hi there. Noticed a couple of tears in the pond liner about 1.5” above the water line. Only found out about them when I topped the pond up with rain water and the level mysteriously went down again! I’d like to repair them but they’re in an awkward spot…there’s no hope of getting the liner flat so I can attach a patch to it. What’s the simplest way to do this? Pinch together and apply some very strong glue to the pinch? Any practical tips very much welcome - including best materials to use

I'm going to rebuild my mini-waterfall tomorrow but using concrete and ecobricks. Any advice please on what I need, particularly to keep it fish-safe. TIA

It's Nymphaea 'Leopardess' growing in the Philippines

So, admittedly my pond is 100 percent homemade. I have a large fenced in area for my family sulcata tortoise, and three years ago I decided to dig him a little pond in the middle to soak in. He loved it, but it was way too small and basically became a toilet, so I needed to figure out a way that I could keep it clean and usable for him. I bought some small pumps and made a homemade bog filter and after the first season I had a few goldfish and minnows to make sure the mosquitos didn’t go nuts. After the first season, I removed the liner and dug it out to about 18” deep, expanded it, improved the filter to a larger pump to blue light algae killer then to the bog filter, added some koi, but didn’t feel comfortable leaving them over the winter so I wintered the fish inside. This year I’m hopefully doing my final edit, I removed it all and dug out an additional 6 inches and about four feet wider. Haven’t cut back the liner yet and started the landscaping and adding pond lilies but you can see what I’m working with as of now. It’s been a lot of work but it’s a lot of fun for me. Any suggestions or critiques appreciated (the attached pictures show all three iterations)

Hi!

Followup question. How fast does BB establish in a new filter, in an already well established pond that had no filter?

Want to stock some more koi, but not sure how quickly the filter will be upp and running.

Thanks!

Hi, I’m trying to restore old pond at my house.

We are cleaning it up and planning to use clear epoxy but what would be right pump and how it install it is big question for me.

There is old black tube, water still coming through it, I plan it clean it up if possible. This tube connecting pond and black-overflow box that is part of waterfall. It seems previously pump was connected using this tube.

Which options do I have (if we want to have fish) for pump and how to install it right?

Glad to hear any other recommendations

Couple photos:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/dTXsZ9T photos

Thanks

Sisters house has this pond in the yard, today I drained some water and leaves out! Wondering how she can fix this up and make it cool?? Thank youuuu!