Thanks Egon, Gar88, for the comments...helps strengthen the resolve...
Indeed truly looking forward to getting this little baby a comfortable and clean home.
Plans are shaping up in my head for the pond. It all comes together now.
Have attached a picture of my just renovated house and you can see on the left side the second one I bought.
The space between the houses is 3.6 meters, middle on both sides has windows from the floor to the roof, about 10 meters high.
Windows are the reason I bought the house, very light and bright house because of it and with the second one, I can slowly start building a large fishroom and everything else me and my wife like to do.
Back to the pond...would start digging the rectangular shape first I think. 7.5 x 1.8 meters.
That way I can keep our renovated side clean and separate until renovation gets truly underway.
Part with a cover, pond will sure be liner type inside a concrete box.
Just don't want to mess with epoxy or any other substances and I think it makes for more easy expansion, changes of the pond and repairs.
What I wonder about is the jumping.
Anybody have any experience or suggestions on that?
I figure that keeping it well fed will avoid it searching for food and jump.
Still, I need to make sure it does not jump against the window or anywhere else.
Large net above the pond, about 2.5 meters in the air will avoid birds and cats getting to the pond.
1 side for time being is 1.8 meter high concrete wall, the other side is the window and after that brick wall again.
So pretty much enclosed. Can hang planters around it to give it shade and hiding places, breaking up the view.
Drainage and filter will be floor-standing drain pump at the deep end of the pond, feeding into 100liter drum with filter floss and bio-media, then gravity-fed back into the pump.
