Arapaima Pond Build

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Got some old steel plates attached to metal rack. I think they will make good walls for the side while we remove the old pond. About 60cm high, so will be ok to hold water for mr.T.
This would be in the case we don't finish in one day.

It will be racing to get the sand out and clear the area, roll out the liner, filling up with water at the same time. Will be a day of very hard and hot work, I hope it can be finished in one single day.
- drain his pond to minimum
- remove all steel, filter, pump
- tie up all sides and use lift truck to keep high.
- remove sandbags and lift the liner with lift truck and drag it into the new pond.
- let it rest there and start digging out the rest of the pond.
- once the digging is finished, roll out the rest of the pond and fill with water.
- if filling and digging goes well, then at the end of the day let the side of the old pond liner go, releasing water and fish in the new one...

That's an awful amount of work for one day. But seeing how fast yesterday went, we just hope it goes well. Same as with moving Mr.T's pond yesterday, hope I am seeing much more problems than there really are.
 
Luc70 said:
Thanks for input Muske.. Really appreciate.
For the bog I indeed want to use the current pond's liner.
I have for some time now wondered about the rubbish that could build up.
So far I have only seen comments on rubbish in the drain-pipes which I understand can be solved with a chimney.
I think that the chimney can better be solved with a couple of valves and reversing the flow into the settling tank, clearing rubbish into the settling tank, rather than trying to clear it out from a PVC pipe.
Using the same pump to just blow it clean

But for rubbish building up in the gravel, mmmh..need to look at that in detail.
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Not a lot of rubbish, but fine particles and dust that blows into the pond will get trapped in the gravel of the bog. Larger rubbish should be picked up by the skimmers and bottom drain. It is perfectly fine and actully good that the gravel does collect that particulate matter to help polish water. Bogs can be cleaned out every few years, just save a portion of the gravel in old water as to not loss a huge amount of beneficials. The rest just clean realy well to remove all silt and detritus.
 
Well, test-filled with about 20cm of water on the bottom-drain.
Let's hope the outcome is good after a couple of hours.
If not, then it will be cleaning some excess silicone, then put epoxy between the bottom-drain itself and the top ring, to make one solid connection. If that does not help, then the same will happen with to outside of the top-ring where the liner goes under it and the screws.

But lets wait first..
Cheers,
Luc
 
So far so good, will check again after lunch.
Before removing the water (if leaking occurs, I'll need to find some ink or other color stuff that I can dissolve and put some drops in the water around the drain. See where the ink flows and locate any leaks.
Might use some cement color-pigment for that. It's iron-oxide, used it to color cement in the tank at home as well. No problems with the fish I kept in there...
 
awesome project!! can't wait to read more, wish I could come help!!
 
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