My Nano Pond!

[dufus]

sweet nano,lol.
james
stack rocks up about 1ft hihg in the shape of a pond you want, like a perimeter, then put a liner in it and stack rocks on the edge of the liner, basic pond building, in a mini version, and without digging.
ut's like a above ground pond.

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[Lucky_13]

my mom built her 150g above ground pond with chunks of broken concrete stacked up, then put a liner over it, another layer of broken concrete and stone over the top for a rim.

[James From Cali]

Thanks that may be we cheaper and way nicer looking than a mound of dirt lol. Nice pond Lucky!

[dufus]

^yep, that's what i'm talkin about^

[Lucky_13]

its changed a bit now. my mom went through this phase where she was making concrete "bowls" using rhubarb leaves as a form. basically make a mound of sand on a table, lay a rhubarb leaf over it, then pack concrete on top of the leaf so it formed with the impression of the leaf in the concrete and was a soft bowl shape. very cool looking. she stained it a soft green and drilled a hole up through the leaf where the stem would be and used that as the "fountain" because the terracotta pitcher in the pic above broke over the winter.

then in the basin right below that is filled with watercress now. no more hostas or floating plants either, we replaced them with this cool bog grass that goes absolutely nuts! from one small plant, we've had to split it up into about 4 or 5 pots and its still almost splitting the gallon plastic pots open with roots growing out the bottom and sides. also have a bog bean plant at the far end and hornwort floating around. its under a tree so we don't really worry about shading the water to keep it cool.

[ir0n_ma1den]

hurray!! In like 10 minutes I am going out to home depot to get tubing to make a waterfall!! I am thinking of either using a big tub of butter or a bucket as the weir. I'LL BE BACK!

[James From Cali]

Post pics of the water fall once its set up. Im sure it will look amazing!

[ir0n_ma1den]

I just set it up (after like 2 hours of tinkering) and it is COMPLETE!!!!!
The bad new: I have to wait for the silicon to dry ( * I used GE windows and doors 1 silicon, is that aquarium safe?)

and I didn't take pics because we have a severe thunderstorm alert so it is dark and scary outside.

If I make it to tommarow i'll post pics.

[dufus]

That silicon is fine when dry, don't run water over it for 24hrs, it won't cure right, i'd cover it up incase of rain.

[Lucky_13]

so the GE windows and doors is aquarium safe..... what about the stuff that says its anti-mildew?

[dufus]

don't know, but mine says not for aquarium use, but i used it in my mini canister filter and i haven't seen ill effects on my endlers yet.

[ir0n_ma1den]

It cleared up enough for me to take pics: Enjoy







any suggestions on how to hide the tubing??
If anyone wants to know how I made it ( cost me like $16 for everything) just let me know.

[dufus]

looks nice.
similar to mine, only 10x smaller,lol.
I didn't use any glues at all, but i see why you'd need them.
To hide the tubes, route then through the gaps inbetween the rocks, then plant a small ground cover plant like lemon bacopa or maybe parrots feathter would work.

[James From Cali]

That looks really nice. Very trainquil. I agree on adding Parrots feather for hiding the tubing.

[CampCreekTexas]

Oooh, yeah! I like it! Good job. Do you have any place near you where you can get parrot's feather? It's a great easy-care plant ~ doesn't even need potting. It can just float in there.