2500+ Gallon outdoor BUILD THREAD at Ellis Aquatics

[JDEllis]

day lily, giant elephant ear and a few of the 6 DIFFERENT plumerias we put in

 

[JDEllis]

top down view from the upper waterfall from a few days ago before everything got planted all the way

 

[JDEllis]

skimmer box almost all the way done. just need to find the right piece of slate for the top that im happy with...then we need to plant around it and the whole pond will be done construction wise

 

[gumbii]

nice plants.... them black taro are big league...

 

[Tangwich]

Yo jay, cant tell from the pics...where is the seating/bbq area?

 

[JDEllis]

Yo jay, cant tell from the pics...where is the seating/bbq area?

we just started building it Saturday...leveling dirt and creating second tier in the yard. Work continues tomorrow on that. In addition if you don't count the bridge there is actually 9 Seats around the pond currently (boulders benches and boulder seats), also the edging on the upper pond is sturdy and can hold 6-8 people and bridge can hold 5+ people on each side

 

[gumbii]

so, you inviting us for a BBQ..?

 

[JDEllis]

so, you inviting us for a BBQ..?

patience young sir lol

yea plan is to close early one day and have everyone over for a few hours maybe potluck style beings there will be no way of telling how many people will want to come through

 

[JDEllis]

so, you inviting us for a BBQ..?

patience young sir lol

yea plan is to close early one day and have everyone over for a few hours maybe potluck style beings there will be no way of telling how many people will want to come through

 

[thunderii]

Nice~~ I guess you're into plans and flowers too huh?? lol

 

[josebelthobby]

patience young sir lol

yea plan is to close early one day and have everyone over for a few hours maybe potluck style beings there will be no way of telling how many people will want to come through

Don't worry must of the people have panic to go to cpt at night.... lol.....

 

[lowbudget]

very nice choice of plants.

 

[JDEllis]

Just picked up first 3 koi and some water lettuce and underwater plants (not sure on type)

 

[lowbudget]

wouldnt the koi eat the guppies

 

[BeanMachine]

Really cool build.

I was wondering... where your water fall is at the corner of your backyard, is all the dirt and rocks, etc piled against the wall between you and your neighbors? Did you add a retaining wall or similar in between?

 

[JDEllis]

In the old 60/80g pond I had about 500 guppies easily with 4 monster koi and they never touched them. I think it's just too small of a meal for them to put the effort, although I'm sure if they are hungry enough they would

Also I built the walls with lots of small nooks and crannies for smaller fish and inverts to hide. In addition to that all the plants that are going and pick up he should hide in the root systems and branches

 

[gumbii]

turtles are going to chew on them guppies, plants and koi... only turtles i trust with fish are blue terapin, and other non evil turtles...

but the guppies are fine with giant koi.. i had huge koi and a bunch of mosquito fish... as long as they are fed, they'll be fine...

 

[JDEllis]

Really cool build.

I was wondering... where your water fall is at the corner of your backyard, is all the dirt and rocks, etc piled against the wall between you and your neighbors? Did you add a retaining wall or similar in between?

Yes retaining wall was one of the first things we put in back toward beginning of this thread

 

[lowbudget]

Really cool build.

I was wondering... where your water fall is at the corner of your backyard, is all the dirt and rocks, etc piled against the wall between you and your neighbors? Did you add a retaining wall or similar in between?

read the thread... he put up a retaining wall lol....

 

[BeanMachine]

read the thread... he put up a retaining wall lol....

You must have missed that part also where he responded to me lol