Chlorinated pond Conversion

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mikey028

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My last thread was about my jacuzzi conversion, but I also want to convert a chlorinated pond in the front yard too. The pond is the shape of a circle and has a diameter of 86 inches and a depth of 16 inches. This equals out to about 402 gallons. It is basically a cylinder. Right now, it only has a pump to shoot water to the top of a waterfall and is chlorinated. How can I go about to turn this into a fish pond? I live in Socal, so there's no need for a heater. I also want to keep it as low cost as possible. Thanks for any help:)
 
You don't need to do much about turning that into a pond but maybe empty out the water and put a garden umbrella so that algae blooms won't develope. Maybe put gravel in there for design.
 
Just drain the chlorinated water and refill with tap water. Cheapest would be to stock with some plants otherwise you would need a UV. If you're in an area with wild animals like raccoons, skunks, possuums, hawks or herons, you'll have trouble. Cold water stock are koi, goldfish, indian mahseer, hifin shark and channel cat.
 
What are you thinking for filtration?
 
kendragon said:
Just drain the chlorinated water and refill with tap water. Cheapest would be to stock with some plants otherwise you would need a UV. If you're in an area with wild animals like raccoons, skunks, possuums, hawks or herons, you'll have trouble. Cold water stock are koi, goldfish, indian mahseer, hifin shark and channel cat.
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I have all those and my pond is about deep as his and have no problems. How many hours of sun light does the pond get? Does it have shade? I always use plants though in my ponds it looks nice and keeps nitrates down. I use uv to keep it extra clear though but depending on how much sun light the pond gets you may not even need both. Decent filtration is usually enough (not overstocking either) but uv and pond plants are a huge plus.


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What plants are easy to take care of? I think I'll just understock and filter with just plants. Something else I was thinking is using the waterfall as a filter. There are two deep bowls where the water comes out at the top of the waterfall. Basically hollowed out fake rocks. When you turn on the waterfall pump, it fills up the hollowed out rocks and finally overfills and spills out onto the waterfall. I was thinking that I could stuff both the hollowed out rocks with filter floss and maybe bioballs. That way, as the water gets pushed to the top of the waterfall, it travels up through the filtration and spill out over all the rocks and finally back into the pond. Kind of hard to explain. I'll put up pics tomorrow morning. I also don't know about sunlight. I'll check how many hours it gets tomorrow.
 
I don't know if I'll be able to stock with plants. Plants need gravel or something of the sort to be planted in, and the drain to the pump for the waterfall is at the bottom of the jacuzzi. I can't cover it with any dirt or gravel.
 
Keep the plants in pots
 
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