Yassss. The sketch is key! Watched dozens of vids and that’s what’s been missing. Now I get it!

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful 👍

I’m back to watch all your videos again. Probably just dreaming but it’s a great dream.

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Maybe try one of the little container ponds.

@braunsch4901

2 ай бұрын

I've definitely rewatched many videos to keep the ideas fresh, Atlantic aqua gardens does good work but this guy does what an average guy can afford to do himself and makes it look damn good

Glad i found you.. I have built a pond 4 by 2 m with the aquascape stuff but want a larger one now and just the kit is 27k! Also thought there was a different way of doing it so looks like i will be going through your videos! Cheers From Geelong Aus

Sweet. I really want to build a pond one day. Thanks for sharing 💗✌️👍💯

Very helpful very enjoyable

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad 😀

Perfect!

Ive just done a fast flow filter with a UV bulb and foam what flows into a gravel tray aquaponic system. It's effectively a bog filter for edible plants.

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Perfect 👍

Thank you! After some months I finally did my first bug filter!

@Ozponds

11 ай бұрын

Well done 👍

Thank you

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

👍

I love it. Here's a comment for your algorithm.

@Ozponds

9 ай бұрын

Cheers mate. The algorithm does love a comment, a thumbs up and plenty of watch time. Appreciate the support 🍻

How much for that pond but a 2ft deeper

Hi Kev. How are you, Sir? Please may I say that is why I prefer D.I.Y. Filters because for a fraction of the price, you can make them better than pre fabricated Filters. I have to be honest, I really do like Eco System Ponds, yet I would have to say that I prefer building a Filter System as I prefer high flow. I appreciate you sharing, and therefore, I have granted your video the #48th #Like to say thankyou very much. Take care, Sir. 👍🙂👍❤️

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Enjoy your weekend.

@ultimatefishkeeping

Жыл бұрын

@Ozponds It is my pleasure, Sir. Thankyou very much, and likewise. 👍🙂👍❤️

hey Kev, any recommendations on underwater vegetation? I have all the marginals in but want to have some green habitat underwater as well. I believe my climate (Canberra) would be similar to yours.

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

I don’t mind eel grass.

Hi Kev my question is not related to this particular video but I want to know if I should switch off the pond pump when I feed the fish as I also have 2 bog filters at either end of the pond with overflow of water from the top as you suggested (this gives me considerable oxygenation, while the up flow from the bottom of the bog manifold is slow purposely according to your suggestion. My water is crystal clear 2 weeks in now, clear as municipality tap water. Do I need stop agitation of the water while I feed the fish and how many times should I feed daily? Approximately 4000 litres pond with 7 small koi and 4 comets small. I am feeding twice a day about a palm full of pellets

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

There’s no harm in stopping the water flow while you feed the fish. In regards to how much to feed that’s impossible for me to answer. The general rule is no more than they can consume in 2 minutes. In my ponds I almost never feed them there’s plenty to eat inside the pond.

What products do you use to keep the water clear?

Hi, great video. I am building a big filter in a large bin, can I put building hardcore in it, obviously pre washed?

@Ozponds

9 ай бұрын

I have no idea what hardcore is.

This pond is absolutely beautiful, I want to recreate it, exactly like this ! Lots of people telling me to don't build the pond in full sun , what advice would you give me?

@Ozponds

8 ай бұрын

Don’t listen to other people. Live your life 😉 You can see I’ve got multiple ponds in full sun. I think I talk about it in next weeks video.

Question for you Kev, by my calculations your pond here is around 2,250 gallons. I have watched a ton of your videos saying to have a bog filter around 10% of the size of your pond. Why did you go with just a 55 gallon drum for this one and it seems to be working marvelously. I have around a 5,000 gallon pond and am starting to plan my own bog filter thanks to you. Thanks for all the super helpful videos, they are so great to watch

@Ozponds

8 күн бұрын

It probably only holds about 2500-3000 liters. A gallon is about 4 liters.

@joshuaboyles8225

7 күн бұрын

Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I must have other misheard or mis-math’d 😂

I'm struggling to find big pond liners. How do you join liners so they don't leak.

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Epdm rubber can be seamed together.

Beautiful eco system pond! Question about maintenance- I see some Aquascape owners doing a yearly deep clean. Complaining that anaerobic muck collects under the rocks so they drain all the water and powerwash the rocks before replacing everything. Do you have to do this on your pond?

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

I don’t do deep cleans anymore.

Hi, I'm building a pond with a bog filter, and a mechanical high flow filter for a waterfall. Would you suggest 1 pump split 2 ways or 2 seperate pumps? Cheers

@Ozponds

8 ай бұрын

2 separate pumps is much easier.

Is that a 200L plastic barrel for the bog filter? So the volume of your pond is ~ 2000L? I'm struggling to figuring out how to put such a large bog filter in my area for a pond ~ 4000L. Is there anyway to get away with a smaller bog filter and add fresh water mussels and extra plants to help with filtration/nitrogen?

@Ozponds

10 ай бұрын

There’s heaps of ways to filter water. I find I get consistent results every time if I use a properly sized bog filter. I still like to experiment. Just the results are mixed. I have a few videos showing larger bogs using pond liner and a cleanout port, rather than a flush valve, they might be useful to you.

Hi Kev, Love your videos! I have a 2 month old 700 gallon pond with a skimmer and bio filter. The pond is filled with rocks, gravel and aquatic plants that I purchased. There are 5 small koi in the pond. I also keep it shaded from direct sunlight. The Bio filter is filled with bio balls. My pond quickly turned green so I used a chemical based algae killer that did not bod well for my fish so I drained the pond and started over...used beneficial bacteria and the water turned green again. My question is, how long do I have to wait for the eco system to kick in and clear the water? Also, is there something I missed in what I am doing? Thank you in advance!

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

It can take months for the pond to balance out. Does the bio filter and skimmer have sponges? If so try a flocculent it will help clump the single celled algae together and allow the sponges to capture it. It’s also safe for your fish.

@georgeobrientheroninrealto2693

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozponds Thank you!

@coleyboy1921

11 ай бұрын

You can float a tray of rooted fast-growing tree cuttings on the water too. They'll help drain the extra nutrients while the other plants get established. Fewer nutrients in the solution will mean fewer algae and the more plants drawing nutrients from the water the better, this is how you'll reach a sustainable balance.

Is there no way to accomplish this without a liner? I have a spring-fed, natural bottom pond, but it's very mushy bottom. I was hoping to be able to dig it out a bit, then amend the soil with large sand/gravel to make it more solid. Critters like mud-puppies, ducks and such depend on the ability to dig through the bottom, but I would dearly like to clear up the water.

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Occasionally the water is clear in my mud bottomed pond. Never consistently. Liner ponds are all clear, all year. Sorry.

@mytvbs4865

Жыл бұрын

😢 Thanks…

Hi Oz. Hope you're ok. I just completed my filter today, thanks to your videos, is working really well, but I wonder how long it takes for that yellowish water to become transparent? It's a small pond 4 × 3 Meters. Thank you very much.

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Every pond is different. There’s no set time. Depends on fish loads, filter size, how bad it was to begin with, etc.

@supremepeace.

3 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds ok. Thank you.

Hello, you sau its ok to use normal foam, not black foam? Is it ok for the Fish? Its a pain and extensive for me to use black foam...and its my first pond. Love you work btw!

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

I’ve used it quite a few times now. No issues with the fish.

@qwerty-vv4yp

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozponds thank you!

How does the pond hold up with heavy rainfall?

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Fine. It was built in 2019. Had plenty of downpours in the past 5 years.

Hows the big pond doing?

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Really good. I think I’ll do a video on it this week.

2 years ago, I built a small (125 gallon) pond. I'm upgrading to a 600-gallon any advice?

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Depends on the type of pond you want. If you like ponds like mine, I’d suggest you watch my vids 😉

Do you plant vetiver grass, in yor pond?

@Ozponds

11 ай бұрын

No. Can’t say I have.

@rumyanakoprinkova3295

11 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds It will be very beneficial, for your pond and garden as well.

Hi can you do this with ducks ?

@Ozponds

10 ай бұрын

Yes, bog should be oversized and I like the idea of also having a high flow filter that is cleaned more often, especially if the pond was smallish like this pond.

And twice the size

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure depends where you live and price of materials.

@fishwith7097

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozponds okay cheers

why dont we use big skimmers like we use indoors? :)

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Some koi keepers do. It’s not something that can easily be buried in the landscape in an ecosystem pond. I’m thinking of creating one for my pond close to the verandah. I feel like I could blend it in near a post or something.

@PazLeBon

Ай бұрын

@@Ozponds vool, i realise i mean protein skimmers not surface skimmers :)

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

@@PazLeBon of course. Almost all my ponds have surface skimmers.

I really love your videos, but it seems like you repeat yourself in your videos. What I personally would like to see is some updates on your projects and your established ponds. Mby with some underwater footage. Happy new year and lots of love from Austria (Europe 😂)

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Yeah sorry Ralph, there’s only so much to talk about. The vast majority of the views come from people who discover the channel for the first time, so I just keep rehashing the same stuff. This weekends video will be just an update on the dream pond. There will be underwater footage 👍. Happy new year 🥳

Liner gsm?

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

For the geotextile. It’s a guide to the thickness/ strength of the fabric (grams per square meter).

🐟🐠🐸🍻

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

😃🤘🐸🐟🍻

Hi, household bricks

@Ozponds

9 ай бұрын

I can’t see why not

Could you swim in the pond? Well maybe now swim but can you sit in it waist deep and feed the fish ahahaha

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

We do. But we have a bigger one that we go on more than this one.

Here’s a terrible sketch 😂

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

I’m thinking of outsourcing the sketches to my kids.

@carolinesmith1064

Жыл бұрын

@@Ozponds maybe the kids could colour them in as well. 🤣

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

😂😂 let’s not get ahead of ourselves!

I'm currently nearly finished building my latest pond eith intake bay and wetland filter into falls using a 9x4metre epdm liner . I was thinking yeah I'll get it done cheap I reckon. Still think it's been about a 3 or 4k job

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

And how much would it cost if you didn’t do it yourself?

@curse6of6me6

Жыл бұрын

@Ozponds judging by aquascapes pricing it would be probly a 20k thing lol. But save major money using jeboa pumps which I did and made a pump vault out of a storm water pit. Ect. But the price does add up rather fast.

@MrCites1

Жыл бұрын

I’m nearly finished at 36x20m pond with two wetlands, 400 tonne of granite, 40 tonne of huge dead trees, 200 tonne of river rock, 120 tonne of white sand. Waterscapes built it, but I sourced all the material, and bought the wetland kits off them, as they wouldn’t install anything else. The aquablox I got from Atlantis, which are the same thing. My pond is 2m deep up to 1.2 deep with a negative edge. I have 4 pumps called Flow friend pro which put out 120,000 litres @700 watts each. I had to import them from Europe. I wouldn’t say it was all cheap, but I agree there are ways to source products cheaper, especially the EPDM.

@curse6of6me6

Жыл бұрын

@MrCites1 whoah. That would be be ousting 100 plus k Yeah? I wana see this

@MrCites1

Жыл бұрын

@@curse6of6me6 I had a few teething problems with construction, but it has been resolved.

Hi, I'm building a pond with a bog filter, and a mechanical high flow filter for a waterfall. Would you suggest 1 pump split 2 ways or 2 seperate pumps? Cheers

@curse6of6me6

Жыл бұрын

How big is it? Width? Length? Depth? Use your big filter to create your waterfall

@Ozponds

Жыл бұрын

Two seperate is easier. Will cost a bit extra though.

@horsey123

Жыл бұрын

@@curse6of6me6 bog filter is slow flow so not enough for waterfall

@curse6of6me6

Жыл бұрын

@horsey123 yes a bog Is slow flow. But of course you can still have a waterfall