Fish Pond Build - Start to Finish - With Wetland Bio Filter

Today I got interrupted by the rain, but I started digging out the shape of the pond. The base of the wetland, if you cut this off at the height just above the waterline, and you put all your pumps into a dish that sits on top of that pipe, and the pressure pushes it down into the distribution pipes, you need to clean it out with these two or four. Dig down, take the caps off, clean it out. You need to cut some slots in here so the water comes into the inlet pipe, and comes out the bottom of the wetland filter. A thick, big, large stones at the bottom, medium stones following up from that, and small stones at the top where you put all your wetland plants. That's what I've been told to do, so this is my method anyway. Paving around the edge is now all done. I've chosen blue stones for the top edge. I'm just going to have the grass flowing down over them. That's a nice natural edge. The biofilter is pretty much in place, and I've just painted with Chromalin waterproofing agent, basically really just to seal the concrete, and stop that leaching into the pond rather than actually as a waterproof thing, because the liner will keep it all waterproof anyway. It doesn't matter if it leaks out of the biofilter. That's the overflow for the biofilter. The water will go into the pipe and come out there. I've put the pumps down in this corner here, and hopefully that will cause a circular flow throughout the pond. I need to get that coming into the pond rather than going into the filter at the moment, and that wall needs to be raised a little bit as well. The pond is coming along. The dog's been getting in and having a lovely time. Where's your bond? Having a good swim? Yeah. That's the sort of water flow you get from a 12 volt pump. It's got 2.5 amps, with a basic Osito bilge pump from Bunnings. $25. Three of them should be enough to get the filter system going, I'm hoping. There we go. There we have it. The pond is pretty much complete. The biofilter is operating well, and the plants are coming along. This is an interesting little lily type thing. Water's coming up into the pot, and going down into the system. Surrounded pond with sandstone rocks, mudstone rocks. Lilies are in. I need a few more lilies. A nice pink one going on there at the moment. The turtles have been eating the lilies, however. Well, I guess it's good food for them. A bit of a rocky river type thing under there, a shallow section for little fish, and a couple of logs for the turtles to climb up on. The turtles are all in hiding under there somewhere, generally. A working fire in the shed. It's probably just started, so it's probably raging too much. Hopefully he's working well.