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Steve's pond

Snow is on the ground

End of November 2005 and Jack Frost has arrived and early December the snow came down but the project kept going. I did not stop on went my old coat and hat.
   
View of new fish in the pond
General view of the pond

My neighbour had a koi pond that was breaking up in the frost and the walls were leaking badly it was only a matter of a short time and the pond was going to fail. His depth was only a few feet deep no bottom drain and he had some nice fish in there.
My pond was not really ready and I knew fish should not be moved at such low temperatures but we had no choice it was either move the fish or find them frozen on his garden when the walls collapsed in the morning. So on the 10th of December they moved in to there new home.
   
New fish in the pond
Close up of new fish in the pond

New pond syndrome started almost immediately the filters were just not working and there were too many fish for the filters to cope with.
 
General view of the pond

Christmas Eve 2005 in 3 months I had got it to this stage alone and I was not happy at all.

Slabs laid down, timber surround cut and fitted with blue decking lights the water was at 8 degrees and new pond syndrome was not getting any better.
 
View of the filter system The very inadequate filter system as it was on New Year’s Day 2006.
 
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