As some of you know, I've been working on converting my inground swimming pool to a backyard pond for quite some time and I've been pinching myself lately cause it looks like I'm coming down to the wire.
The mechanical filter pits are done ...
The pumphouse is ready ...
The pumps are primed ...
And the pond is filling ... slowly, but filling ...
We're on a well here, so I've been filling the pond 90 minutes on & 90 minutes off. Hopefully I won't overtax the well pump as I'd rather not have to replace that along with everything else.
I've ordered 5 yards of 1/2" river rock to fill the bogs for bio filtration and that will be delivered on saturday. The filling should be complete well before that. Once I get the rock spread in the bogs I think I'll be in the fine tuning stage ...
The water in the "minipond" is still at 70/71 deg F but the water from the well is filling at 58 degs ... I'm going to leave the minipond flow/filtration separate for now 'cause I really don't think the goldies will be happy with the temp change if I combine them at this time. The mini and the fountain in it are designed to run off the main pumps but I've been running them separately with a Little Giant MD4 temporarily. Switching it over is just a matter of disconnecting the LG and capping the pipe that attaches it to the system and opening two valves. That will wait until the temps in the pond and minipond equalize.
As you can tell, I'm a bit excited that it's finally here and
My gosh! I think it might actually happen! Keep Smilin'
John