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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a quick update on my dream pond build. It shows current progress. Including my DIY pump vault, circulation jets and steps. But mostly its just how I'm moving big rocks by hand and setting them securely in place.
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Kev, i can not thank you enough for all these videow you've put up. It maybe just sharing your experience with others for you, but for novices they are invaluable.
I’m glad you’re getting something out of the vids 😊👍
I do lots of rock work by hand and hand trucks are vital. Good job trying to save your back. It’s looking fantastic. Thanks again for sharing this process.
Thanks. And thanks for watching. I’m just happy you’re enjoying seeing the pond come together. 👍
Hey Kev. Just wanted to let you know I keep watching your videos over and over and picking up tips on the 3rd or 4th go through that I didn't catch the first time. Finding your series really helpful.
I'm building a similar size pond right now. I'm at a similar stage as you, so I just wait for you to upload the next update so I can pick up the tips from that and get back to work. Haha.
Would love to learn a little more about how you're plumbing your air lines with garden hose.
Also, those half-pipe drainage pipes you have look really handy. We don't have anything like it (to my knowledge) in The States. I had to buy large diameter drainage pipes and cut slits in them with a chain saw. They're quite expensive.
Thanks mate. I’m really happy you find these videos helpful. There’s really not that much to installing the garden hose air line, I’m not sure it warrants a video. I just choose the garden hose because it was really cheap and on the clay pond down the back I needed to cover a 70 metre distance. If you watch the stagnant pond update video I think it shows the connection. I then drilled some little holes to accept some aquarium tubing and added the airstones. On this pond I’ll only have one air diffuser that I think will connect directly into the garden hose. I was very pleased to find the half pipes. Here the large pipes are very expensive also.
@@Ozponds Thanks. That is incredibly simple. Will give it a go. Just thought of two more questions to bug you with:
1. The scoria gravel you're using as backfill-looks like a small angular stone? Are you concerned at all about that stuff migrating out of the wall and puncturing the liner? I had thought to use a similar gravel product here because it's so small and compacts really well, but then had second thoughts about using an angular stone.
2. Your pump vault at the bottom of the pond-just curious why you chose to place it where you did rather than than make the intake bay a little bigger so that it could live there and then just plumb a PVC pipe for that pump to draw from the bottom. And do you expect to have to service that pump for clogs frequently since it's intended to pick up solids?
1. I hope the scoria doesn’t migrate out of the walls. I was very careful to minimise any gaps in the wall rock work. I did use the same rock on my budget diy pond without issue. Same with the angularity of the rocks I’m not worried about punctures as I’ve got geotextile- liner- more geotextile for protection. I like it cause it’s cheap and lightweight making it easy to work with. The drawback is it compacts so well that it doesn’t allow any muck to fill the voids. Water passes through no problem but any solids just sit on the surface of the rock where I can see them. Overtime this happens with larger, rounded pebbles just takes longer.
2. I really don’t enjoy the plumbing. I guess I could have had the pump housed in the intake and run some pipe from the base of the pond. But then I’d need to create a special barrier to prevent anything too big entering the pipe and being sucked directly into the pump. And then if that became blocked I need to get wet to unblock it. The way I have it set up at the moment I can just open the lid on the barrel lift the pump out and give it a clean. Simple and no need to get wet. That’s my theory anyway. We will see how it all plays out over the coming months and years 😉
@@Ozponds That all makes sense. I actually enjoy plumbing, so I guess we all look for ways to do more of the stuff we like and less of the stuff we don't. :) Had the idea today-before setting first boulders-to carve out channels in my excavation so that I can run all the plumbing in a depression and then cover with pond gravel. Kind of like creating a little dirt conduit for the plumbing. Will let you know how it goes.
Love it 👍
Thanks for sharing, pro level work on that pond.
I'm sure its super clean too!
Thanks mate 👍
Awesome work it's looking amazing so far 👌👍
Cheers mate. It’s starting to come together. 👍
Yay, looking forward to it. Thank you for sharing! All the best! 🌿🕊
Thanks 😊
Hello! I am designing a large pond using the slope I have in my property. I was thinking to build a biological filter in the upper part of the pond using a preform little pond drilling a hole in the bottom and bending a leap in the top for the overflow. Two of my concerns are the connections from the flexible pipe that comes from the pump which is either 1 or 1 and 1/4inch to the homemade filter and the materials to the filter the water. Do you only use different type of rocks and plants to filter? Thanks! Enjoyed your videos!
G’day Felipe, it shouldn’t matter to much what sort of flow you have entering the bog if it’s too much you can split it and bypass the filter. I do have a video on the flow rates I like to aim for in a bog filter. To answer your second question yes the filter pretty much only consist of rock, gravel and plants. It’s the bacteria 🦠 that lives on the rocks, gravel and plant roots that purify the water. Hope that helps and good luck with your project 👍
Great job.
Thanks Mike
Awesome, can you do something like this with a hot tub
Might get too hot for the bacteria to survive.
Hey Kev,
wondering how you set up your overflow system for this one?
Cheers!
Blake
I’ll do a vid next week 👍
@@Ozponds legend! we are building a 5x5m pond with 8m stream in two weeks :)
I know you are in Austrailia but I need more information on where to purchase the items you use like Amazon. Also sizes of pipes and other items. Thanks
Thanks for the feedback Rick. I am starting to try and add links in the description to help people understand the sorts of things they’ll need. 👍
@@Ozponds thanks so much, your videos are very helpful thank you from Canada 🇨🇦
Hey Kev! Doesn’t the layer of geo-textile on top of the liner rot in water? How many years will it last?
They say it should last around 200 years. Apparently UV will degrade it quicker but this is covered with rock. So no UV hitting the fabric. I’m quietly confident it will last my lifetime 😉👍
@@Ozponds Ah thanks a lot ! I guess I’ll have to order more geo textile. My liner is coming in today so I’m revising all your videos 😂
Yay! 😀
How many pumps you will use for jets? And where you will put that pump, on intake bay? Hope your project will successful
Thanks Aziz. Yes the pump for the jets will be in the intake bay. There will only be one pump running the jets. One for each bog filter and one for a future stream. So 4 pumps in total. 3 will be inside the intake bay and 1 pulling water off the bottom inside that makeshift pump vault beside the intake bay.
@@Ozponds Kev, where is the water you're pulling off the bottom of the pond going to?
That will go to one of the bog filters. I want it to deposit the solid materials it picks up.
@@Ozponds You're a brave man!
😂 why is that?
Hi Kev, great job! And what are the heaviest stones you move this way? How many kilos?
I’m not 100% sure Oleg. I comfortably deadlift 140kgs these are heavier. But I would say most of the big ones are still under 200kgs...I think .....MAN they were heavy! One more shelf to go 🙄
@@Ozponds Yes, good luck with the last shelf.
I also wanted to ask about the circulation. I see you're making bottom jets and pump. And what is the depth of the pond? If it is deep, I thought it is better to keep the bottom water without mixing with top layer, so that it stays cool, no?
The pond is approx 1.8m deep. I’m using the circulation jets and pump on the bottom to hopefully keep it clean of muck. There will also be surface jets. And 3 pumps pulling water from the surface. The jets lines will have ball valves so I can shut off the bottom or the top at any given time. Same goes for the bottom pump and aerators. But I’m pretty sure everything will be running constantly. My plan is to stock it entirely with small native fish.
@@olegpavlov9717 Hello Oleg, It is important to have good water circulation throughout the pond, otherwise areas without oxygen are generated and with it anaeronic bacteria. Cheers.