It's always good to see somebody working hard and doing a fabulous job at it. Have lots of fun and keep up the good work, it is gorgeous, thanks for the video.
We are just beginning to gain momentum give us time. I intend to share everything I have ever learned about water features on this channel, Thank you for your support :-)
That really turned out great. The time you guys took on getting the whole thing level and later, when the liner was being back filled, shows as much as I need to see to understand you believe every little detail matters. Will there be a part 3 or some kind of follow up on this? I'd love to see how that natural pond clears up with the wetland filter and biofalls in place now.
Yessir, every detail does matter! I will shoot a video after a year out there. I am also going to do the time lapse voice-over to really take the opportunity to teach the “how and why”. A lot of the success of the filter will depend on the maintenance and care, as well as the guys out there taking care to use bacterias etc. to help break down the organics. I was told by the people caring for it that water in the pond had cleared to a 4’-5’ deep visibility after a couple months. When we started you couldn’t really see down into the water, a foot at most. We are pleased with the results so far!
I like the care you guys take in all your work, placing the huge rocks particularly. Your video really shows your fun side too I laughed at the Austin Powers reference. Those snapping turtles frighten me so I take my hat off to you for catching and handling them, I was waiting for you to either fall in or get pushed! Perhaps next time?
You know I actually went after another turtle, lost my footing and fell in on top of the turtle and I was swimming! Lucky for me no one was filming at that time!!
Yep, we had some “extra space” where I overdug -so we used a few large blocks to make it bigger! More is better when it comes to filters!! Thanks for watching👍🏻
Could you please do a follow up on this to show how the two filtration systems you installed affected the water quality in this pond over time. The snapping turtles will crawl overland to find it again and again but they are Jurrasic. I'm binge watching your videos, have several questions but won't ask them yet because they may be addressed already and don't want to waste your time. You cover a lot of details, thank you. Theres a lot to know and understand, you are a great teacher.
Thanks for the kind words! The turtles are forever! They are in the lower pond, the upper pond, and coming down from up-stream. They will never be gone😂 The water quality and clarity in the pond is much better now. You can see down into the water several feet whereas there was no visibility prior to the filter addition. The project is a few hundred miles from my house but I’ll get back out there someday. There was def room for a bigger wetland here, I think because of the inflow of fresh water, the smaller filter is doing a great job. Super happy with the improvement of the feature. With maintenance and products to break down the years of accumulated sludge, I forsee a constant improvement of water quality over the next few years👍
Love both of the videos of this build I’ve seen so far….. most questions are answered. When you installed the liner under the aqua blocks in this video, did you glue the seam?
Sorry it's been a while since this vid was posted but I only recently four you stream. Love your work and the fun videos. This plus the intake bay vid were very interesting seeing these two filter systems being used on the same project. I think I would be horrified at the maintenance for the intake bay but I can see the need for one (when the pond scale and funds allow!) Keep up the good work and best wishes from Blighty.
Thank you for the kind words, the maintenance really isn’t all that bad I just recommend the homeowners to get a pond vacuum to clean the leaves out👍🏻😎
No I have not been back out since, it’s 3 hour drive for me BUT my friends said the water is crystal clear down to 4K depth now vs. the murk that was the case before!
I have never seen a solar powered pump that moves much water (not that there hasn’t ever been one) but my advice would be to install an energy efficient pump n then install solar system to offset the consumption!
Ok thanks for the reply, your videos are super helpful and have learned so much, getting ready to break ground soon, what’s the best liner and under lay to use, and where’s the best place to buy it
The filter is a bit small for the pond, but we made it as big as we could to fit the budget. Also the pond has a nice spring that feeds it with a constant overflow. We normally shoot for 10% of pond surface for a larger feature filter BUT money, environmental situations etc. have a place in the decision making process. Pumping 20k GPH currently- intake is designed to handle (and operate optimally) at 40k GPH.
i dont mean to be offtopic but does someone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me.
@Bruce Emmett I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
What an incredible looking project. Question: when you use the wetland filter to feed the waterfall how much more TDH do you calculate for the water resistance running upward through the rocks? It would seem to me that if I want a certain GPH over the spillstone then I would have to calculate some loss to account for having to lift (push) the water up through the filter. Thanks
I typically don’t add any. I figure what I want and design on the high end. I guess I could test that but if you are cleaning your filter annually, it’s not an issue. The water on top is the majority and it is creating most of the flow for the waterfall (in many cases). That portion comes out unrestricted on top of the wetland. If you really jam up your filter with plants, it may have an effect but using a higher head pump it should not be an issue and the resistance will change as the filter develops. Add a few feet of head pressure and call it a day!
Hello, thank you for your inspiring videos. I would like to make such a system, but in all your videos the ponds are not very deep. It is winter in our country and for wintering fish, especially koi, people recommend a pond depth of at least 160 cm, is it possible to use this system in deep ponds with a water surface height of 160 cm? Thank you
You can- we have done ponds up to 10 feet deep. There are no depth limits for our designs (other than the ones put on us by the Earth or someone’s budghet)!
This was awesome! I live in Cleveland TN. I'm curious what a project like this costs? I actually have 2 ponds that are tiered and something like this would be great for our outdoor space and ultimately be something our children could enjoy as a swim pond. Just a ball park figure would work for the moment. Blessings, Jason
This project was about 150k turn-key. LOTS of variables could impact that massively though. We were going for WOW, cost not the big issue on this one. It could have been 1/2 that much and still function.
This project is amazing! Can you show us a broll of how both the intake & outtake looks now? By the way John, I'm the dude who message you about animating your logo. :D
I think you could've spent more time leveling the ground around the centipedes😉. Just kidding, it was nice to see how much care went into building it right.
That was better than great, that was extraordinary, so beautiful!
Thanks for watching!
My pleasure!!!@@KoiAddiction
It's always good to see somebody working hard and doing a fabulous job at it. Have lots of fun and keep up the good work, it is gorgeous, thanks for the video.
My Pleasure, we love to bring the magic!!
Insane looks very natural I would not know it is man made if I do not see the whole process, many thanks sir, it is awesome 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed the video, it was a cool jobsite🤠
❤ thank you
Hope it helped in some way?
Thank you.
My pleasure, I don’t know why this comment just popped up in my feed but thanks for commenting a year ago😭😭
@12:00 that operator is a surgeon! Great video guys😎
Thank you sir😎
Gotta see more of final product, show how awsome it is. And pls do revisit....
I’ll try to swing by when I am out that way and do a quick video. It’s about 3 1/2 hours away.
love the timelapse of a detailed preparation of base of wetland. Great job!
Thanks, it was a big job-the pond is clearing up already👍
This channel is underrated, great contents, thanks for sharing
We are just beginning to gain momentum give us time. I intend to share everything I have ever learned about water features on this channel, Thank you for your support :-)
Very impressed, tons of hard work. Very informative.thanks 👊
Thanks for hanging out with us and watching our channel :-)
Lovely work 👍
Thanks, it was a cool jobsite!
Groovy Baby..GRoovy! A pond built for a TRex!! No doubt superfine work Modern Design Aquascaping!
Bri-on -> miss ya buddy! Hello from the UK!
Awesome job guys
Thanks for tuning in!
That really turned out great. The time you guys took on getting the whole thing level and later, when the liner was being back filled, shows as much as I need to see to understand you believe every little detail matters. Will there be a part 3 or some kind of follow up on this? I'd love to see how that natural pond clears up with the wetland filter and biofalls in place now.
Yessir, every detail does matter! I will shoot a video after a year out there. I am also going to do the time lapse voice-over to really take the opportunity to teach the “how and why”. A lot of the success of the filter will depend on the maintenance and care, as well as the guys out there taking care to use bacterias etc. to help break down the organics. I was told by the people caring for it that water in the pond had cleared to a 4’-5’ deep visibility after a couple months. When we started you couldn’t really see down into the water, a foot at most. We are pleased with the results so far!
Did you ever just realize that our earth is level, still and motionless. Working with water both moving and still will prove it
LOL true story!
Well- sort of??
another awesome jobs
Who gets dinosaurs on the jobsite right?
I like the care you guys take in all your work, placing the huge rocks particularly. Your video really shows your fun side too I laughed at the Austin Powers reference. Those snapping turtles frighten me so I take my hat off to you for catching and handling them, I was waiting for you to either fall in or get pushed! Perhaps next time?
You know I actually went after another turtle, lost my footing and fell in on top of the turtle and I was swimming! Lucky for me no one was filming at that time!!
Now that would have been awesome to catch on camera! 🤣
Nice job fellas!
See you in Uganda Ralphie ;)
In the wetland, there was one layer of blocks higher than the rest? Turned out amazing!
Yep, we had some “extra space” where I overdug -so we used a few large blocks to make it bigger! More is better when it comes to filters!! Thanks for watching👍🏻
Gotta' fess up to feelings of sincere pride in seeing the important and impressive jobs you and your boys are doing nowadays. Great video.
Thanks, you guys were the first awesome job we ever did🤗
Looks amazing, as always!
Thanks Greg🙏
Could you please do a follow up on this to show how the two filtration systems you installed affected the water quality in this pond over time. The snapping turtles will crawl overland to find it again and again but they are Jurrasic. I'm binge watching your videos, have several questions but won't ask them yet because they may be addressed already and don't want to waste your time. You cover a lot of details, thank you. Theres a lot to know and understand, you are a great teacher.
Thanks for the kind words! The turtles are forever! They are in the lower pond, the upper pond, and coming down from up-stream. They will never be gone😂 The water quality and clarity in the pond is much better now. You can see down into the water several feet whereas there was no visibility prior to the filter addition. The project is a few hundred miles from my house but I’ll get back out there someday. There was def room for a bigger wetland here, I think because of the inflow of fresh water, the smaller filter is doing a great job. Super happy with the improvement of the feature. With maintenance and products to break down the years of accumulated sludge, I forsee a constant improvement of water quality over the next few years👍
❤ it beautiful work
TYVM it was a fun job!
What a fantastic video! Great job Modern Design Aquascaping.
Love both of the videos of this build I’ve seen so far….. most questions are answered. When you installed the liner under the aqua blocks in this video, did you glue the seam?
If there was 2 liners- unless there was a vertical drop over 1 foot- we seamed it !
Sorry it's been a while since this vid was posted but I only recently four you stream. Love your work and the fun videos.
This plus the intake bay vid were very interesting seeing these two filter systems being used on the same project. I think I would be horrified at the maintenance for the intake bay but I can see the need for one (when the pond scale and funds allow!)
Keep up the good work and best wishes from Blighty.
Thank you for the kind words, the maintenance really isn’t all that bad I just recommend the homeowners to get a pond vacuum to clean the leaves out👍🏻😎
Keep up the good work “Austin”, great video, nice mixed lot of music, loved the planting up section.
Can’t wait to see you guys ;)
@@KoiAddiction tomorrow
Is there any videos on the current situation of the pond. Would love to see the result as it matures
No I have not been back out since, it’s 3 hour drive for me BUT my friends said the water is crystal clear down to 4K depth now vs. the murk that was the case before!
Have you ever used solar powered pumps in your ponds, I’m getting ready to build a rec pond 60x30 with an elevated wetland filter and waterfall
I have never seen a solar powered pump that moves much water (not that there hasn’t ever been one) but my advice would be to install an energy efficient pump n then install solar system to offset the consumption!
Ok thanks for the reply, your videos are super helpful and have learned so much, getting ready to break ground soon, what’s the best liner and under lay to use, and where’s the best place to buy it
Man you do good work. Are you going to do a one year follow up soon? I’m very curious to see the project now.
Probably not going to happen, we are so busy traveling and the site is 3 hours from my shop. If I get out there though I definitely will!
Great vid john, what is the pool size vs filter size, and pump sizes for the wetland
The filter is a bit small for the pond, but we made it as big as we could to fit the budget. Also the pond has a nice spring that feeds it with a constant overflow. We normally shoot for 10% of pond surface for a larger feature filter BUT money, environmental situations etc. have a place in the decision making process. Pumping 20k GPH currently- intake is designed to handle (and operate optimally) at 40k GPH.
Awesome time out there, plus I got to free hand my first snapper. 😂
I’m glad you got to keep all of your fingers! Love from the U.K. ;)
Amazing video, that was one of the most fun projects I’ve got to be a part of. Look forward to more😎
Im going for a walk for a few miles this morning Nick. What are you going to do today to get better? Loves ya sir❤️
i dont mean to be offtopic but does someone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account..?
I stupidly lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me.
@Will Allan instablaster :)
@Bruce Emmett I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Bruce Emmett It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thanks so much you saved my ass!
What an incredible looking project. Question: when you use the wetland filter to feed the waterfall how much more TDH do you calculate for the water resistance running upward through the rocks? It would seem to me that if I want a certain GPH over the spillstone then I would have to calculate some loss to account for having to lift (push) the water up through the filter. Thanks
I typically don’t add any. I figure what I want and design on the high end. I guess I could test that but if you are cleaning your filter annually, it’s not an issue. The water on top is the majority and it is creating most of the flow for the waterfall (in many cases). That portion comes out unrestricted on top of the wetland. If you really jam up your filter with plants, it may have an effect but using a higher head pump it should not be an issue and the resistance will change as the filter develops. Add a few feet of head pressure and call it a day!
I love love love the Austin Powers reference🤪🤣🤪
Thanks for commenting a year ago, I have no idea why this just popped up in my feed today?
Awesome job. How much of a slope did you put in the bottom?
Bottom is flat but centipedes slope to snorkels. Just enough for water to wash back for cleaning👍
KENAN SENT MEEE AND I LOVE THE VIDEOSSSS 🙌🏼🤙🏼
Glad to have ya👍🏻 Welcome!
Hello, thank you for your inspiring videos. I would like to make such a system, but in all your videos the ponds are not very deep. It is winter in our country and for wintering fish, especially koi, people recommend a pond depth of at least 160 cm, is it possible to use this system in deep ponds with a water surface height of 160 cm? Thank you
You can- we have done ponds up to 10 feet deep. There are no depth limits for our designs (other than the ones put on us by the Earth or someone’s budghet)!
Awesome job! What were the dimensions on this wetland and how many tons of boulder?
Wow that was so long ago- you would have to count the blocks and do the math LOL- I say boulders are 4-8 S.F. Of Face depending on boulder sizes.
Probs a dumb question, but how do you set the large boulders and still get your straps out from under them?
Pry bars, strategic placement, sketchy strapping🤣
@@KoiAddiction lol
Question - why the ball valve and small pipe on the input pipe to the wetland?
Breaks siphon when power goes out👍
That was my guess, thanks.
Why did you have the row of higher aquablocks?
We overdug the pit & had those so we used them in lieu of filling the space full of stones😳
This was awesome! I live in Cleveland TN. I'm curious what a project like this costs? I actually have 2 ponds that are tiered and something like this would be great for our outdoor space and ultimately be something our children could enjoy as a swim pond. Just a ball park figure would work for the moment. Blessings, Jason
This project was about 150k turn-key. LOTS of variables could impact that massively though. We were going for WOW, cost not the big issue on this one. It could have been 1/2 that much and still function.
What pumps did you used for this project ?
2 @ 10,000 GPH submersible pumps were used. I would have preferred to use externals but they were not specified so we went with the subs!
Kenan sent me here. And I'm here to stay. 👍 you guys should do a pond giveaway so I can win.
Kenan got our free giveaway, not sure when we’ll have the cash to do another. Hang in there and thanks for joining👍
@@KoiAddiction no problem he deserves it for all the hard work he does. Thanks I'll definitely stick around. Love what you guys do.
This project is amazing! Can you show us a broll of how both the intake & outtake looks now? By the way John, I'm the dude who message you about animating your logo. :D
Ill get it to you, out of town now😎
What plants did you plant?
The contractor who hired us to build it did the plantings- we did the tough part though😎
mr adams im building 2 ponds near vancouver bc im interested in buying parts do you have distributors here nice videos thankyou so much
Yes, Imhave a friend named Marcel in that vicinity, if you call Aquascapes directly they will connect you with the nearest distributor👍😎
Is there a part 3 on Jurassic farm pond?
LOL no, we haven’t made it back out. What would you like to see?
@@KoiAddiction How about a finished product?
How's the water quality???
I think you could've spent more time leveling the ground around the centipedes😉. Just kidding, it was nice to see how much care went into building it right.
How you do anything is how you do everything :-)