Garden Pond

[leeds chimp]

i am toying with the idea of building a garden pond about 2m x 2m x 2/3 foot which will be raised up not dug down

I know a few people on here have one so looking for advice on the costs involved with setting it up and running it. Will be having carp in it

Cheers

Edited August 23, 2010 by leeds chimp

[holly]

heres a pic of the one i just recently built liner £10 bricks £12 pump £17 all off ebay

[leeds chimp]

Thats roughly what i am looking at building. Could you send me the links for what you bought please so i can have a look

[MJN]

you want something like this if you want carp

 

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Edited August 23, 2010 by MGMan

[leeds chimp]

now thats just showing off...would love something like that but not got the room

[teal27]

This is our koi pond

[mark@mbb]

i am toying with the idea of building a garden pond about 2m x 2m x 2/3 foot which will be raised up not dug down

I know a few people on here have one so looking for advice on the costs involved with setting it up and running it. Will be having carp in it

Cheers

hello mate i dug a pond for the kids to fish 10 years ago the fish in it have bred you are welcome to come over and take a load of small carp out if you want to it about 1/2 acre

 

Mark

[TJ91]

hello mate i dug a pond for the kids to fish 10 years ago the fish in it have bred you are welcome to come over and take a load of small carp out if you want to it about 1/2 acre

 

Mark

 

Where abouts are you?

 

 

I would like some small carp.

We never got round to putting any fish in our pond!

[mark@mbb]

Where abouts are you?

 

 

I would like some small carp.

We never got round to putting any fish in our pond!

[mark@mbb]

Hello mate i am sorry didnt reply i just seem to get lost we are in a place called arley in cheshire give a pm and you can come over any time you are

in the area

 

Atb mark

[THE GRIFF]

One way would be to make the sides out of railway sleepers and put a pond liner in it. I used to keep carp and the ideal depth should be 5 foot but I have seen carp in ponds only 3 feet and they have been ok. If you are raising it 3 feet up off the ground then it must be a strong supporting wall around it, 2 bricks/blocks thick with the cavity filled with concrete would be the best way, a wall one brick thick wouldn't last that long holding the wieght of that amount of water.

Could you not dig down a couple of feet and then raise the pond 2 feet as well, then you would have a 4 foot deep pond and the wall wouldn't need to be so strong and expensive to hold back only 2 feet of water above the ground.

Another thing to consider before building it is filteration, where is the filter going to go and what type of filter are you going to be using, if its a gravity fed filter then the top of the filter needs to be the same height as the water level in the pond, you could plan a place to put the filter in the the design of your pond or run pipe work in to put the filter out of the way in the garage/shed or at the other end of your garden.