[GSAS-Member] GSAS Auction Koi; New Home, Pond Building Pictures

["Seattle_Aquarist" <Seattle_Aquarist@comcast.net>]

Hi everyone,

 

My brother and his family built this pond over the summer.  He sent me the
following e-mail and attached pictures.  Just thought I would share them
with you.  Start with "1" and end with "9".  I hope you enjoy them!  Just
click on (or cut and paste) the link below:

http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=246675984/a=137555032_137555
032/t_=137555032

 

Roy

 

"Sure you can post the picture..  I have more pictures, with the pond in
various stages of being built if anyone wants to see.

 

As for pond details, we purchased the 21'x26' EasyPro pond kit online from
pondsupply.com Ordering went really smooth, with free shipping, if willing
to pick up at the local trucking dock.

Some of the extras purchased included:    two 24" skimmer box

extension tubes (to get the skimmer box 4 feet away from the pond edge) UV
light option for inside the skimmer box (no green pond water in the

summer)

 

The pump is the EasyPro TH-400, 4900 GPH, draws 5.6 amps, and came with the
kit.  I can understand why people are asking about the pump, because when
you think about building waterfalls you wonder how much flow you will need.

I found some formulas online to estimate flow vs. waterfall width to make a
good looking falls.  I went with 24" wide fall due to the size of the pond.

Anything wider might have looked out of scale, even though the flow would
support wider falls.

 

I hope to get some landscaping plants in before winter sets in, to tone down
the amount of rock showing."

 

 

 

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