My almost finished pond

[ShadowBass]

Looks good .

Don't worry about the sunfish. Most of them don't look like much from the top anyway. Mollies and goldfish are much more viewable.

 

[daveformen]

Nice pond.

 

[Duncan6618]

Nice pond!

For the algae you might want to put up a shade sail. I found that the hair algae always outcompeted the bog plants once my pond baked in the Texas heat over the summer. I ordered mine from here...

http://www.shadeclothstore.com/products/sku-RT0622__dept-180.html

 

[thechief]

thats awesome

 

[mattgreene]

Thanks, now that I have the bog filter running again and since the lily, mosaic plant, and my floating planter are all out-doing the algae I am not having a problem anymore but if that changes for some reason I will definitely look into that as a solution.

 

[mattgreene]

Here is a picture after I have done a bit more cosmetic work

 

[cancanbaji]

Cheers nice pond...

My Silver Arowana - Aladdin

 

[mattgreene]

Here are some pictures of some of the plants I added. The weird pink flower is the main plant in the floating planter (I think it is called a bog lily), the jelly bean looking plant next to the coral looking one are both cacti that I got from Home Depot to experiment with in the bog filter and considering how well they have done these past few weeks I think they are here to stay, the dwarf papyrus has grown at least 6 inches in height and has grown in more thick since the waterfall was fixed, and then obviously the lily I bought.

 

[mattgreene]

I will try and get pictures or a video or both of the fish tomorrow since they have grown quite a bit since the last video. I also got a dojo loach that was looking a little sickly at the store but has grown crazy fast and is looking a lot more healthy now.

 

[rwellbaum]

looks great!