Hi, it has been a long time since I have posted on here. I was 2bfishy. But I couldn't remember my email address that I used for my account, so I had to create a new account with a different email address. So now I am 2bfishy2. I had a 8 foot diameter index snap set 500 gallon pool pond that housed mainly 9 sun catfish, 2 four line catfish, and various cichlids and buenas aires tetras, swordtails, and 2 oscars and a black spotted eel. I ran 3 tetra pond flat box filters totaling 1500 gallons of filtration and it was a very successful pond that I had up for 5 years.
Unfortunately, some repairs needed to be done in my basement and the pool pond was taking up a lot of space in the basement, so the repairman didn't have access to where he needed to repair, and I had to take the pool pond down. I took the fish to my local fish store and have been in a major funk ever since. That pond was my happy place and I really miss it. Fast forward a month later and I have gone to that same fish store every weekend for the last 4 weeks. This last week I saw they still have four of my adult sun catfish and 1 four line catfish left. They had them all housed in a 75 gallon tank. I feel really bad for them because they were in my 500 gallon pool pond their whole lives until now. I was determined to get them out of there. So I bought a Rubbermaid 300 gallon stock tank and put it in my basement on an insulated foam pad. I have read on various forums that these stock tanks tend to get cracks and leak so I didn't want to risk it and have bought a combination underlayment and 45 mil EPDM pond liner off of Amazon that arrived today.
Unfortunately, I have no experience with pond liners, only pool ponds, so I need some guidance on how this is done.
Do I just lay down the underlayment in the 300 gallon stock tank and lay the pond liner over it? I will be heating the tank with a room heater. Should I put any kind of insulation under the underlayment first to insulate it better in case of power outages?
Unfortunately, some repairs needed to be done in my basement and the pool pond was taking up a lot of space in the basement, so the repairman didn't have access to where he needed to repair, and I had to take the pool pond down. I took the fish to my local fish store and have been in a major funk ever since. That pond was my happy place and I really miss it. Fast forward a month later and I have gone to that same fish store every weekend for the last 4 weeks. This last week I saw they still have four of my adult sun catfish and 1 four line catfish left. They had them all housed in a 75 gallon tank. I feel really bad for them because they were in my 500 gallon pool pond their whole lives until now. I was determined to get them out of there. So I bought a Rubbermaid 300 gallon stock tank and put it in my basement on an insulated foam pad. I have read on various forums that these stock tanks tend to get cracks and leak so I didn't want to risk it and have bought a combination underlayment and 45 mil EPDM pond liner off of Amazon that arrived today.
Unfortunately, I have no experience with pond liners, only pool ponds, so I need some guidance on how this is done.
Do I just lay down the underlayment in the 300 gallon stock tank and lay the pond liner over it? I will be heating the tank with a room heater. Should I put any kind of insulation under the underlayment first to insulate it better in case of power outages?
