[glow=Purple,strength,width]Anybody know anything about ponds?[/glow]
We are planning on building a tropical garden bed near our back porch where it is shady a lot. We also have an old whiskey barrel that we want to turn into a container pond. Part of the area we want to plant gets a large amount of run-off from the roof. There is a big hole where the water lands so anything that we would plant there wouldn't survive. It also doesn't leave us for much room for the pond. We had a couple different ideas on how to solve the problem. One is to put up gutters in that area and then we can plant where ever and put the pond where ever we want to. Another idea (which I'm leaning towards now) is to turn the place where the water hits into a shallow splashdown pond. It would be lined and have rocks on top and would have a streamlike thingy to let any excess water drain off. Okay now you're thinking "What does this have to do with fish? I hope you're not planning on putting them in that!" No, I'm getting to the fish. I want to cut the barrel above the midsection so that the hole for the tap will still be there. We have an old wooden tap that we plan to stick in the hole as a fountain. We want to put the barrel pond on the porch and have a pump in the splashdown pond that pumps the water into the barrel (with liner of course) and then flows out the tap, when the water level gets high enough, and back into the splashdown pond near the edge of the porch. I know that little black particles come off the roof. I could put a sponge on the pump intake to keep it out of the barrel. Would it be safe to put a few goldfish in the barrel? Or is there something else that would run off the roof and harm them?
We are planning on building a tropical garden bed near our back porch where it is shady a lot. We also have an old whiskey barrel that we want to turn into a container pond. Part of the area we want to plant gets a large amount of run-off from the roof. There is a big hole where the water lands so anything that we would plant there wouldn't survive. It also doesn't leave us for much room for the pond. We had a couple different ideas on how to solve the problem. One is to put up gutters in that area and then we can plant where ever and put the pond where ever we want to. Another idea (which I'm leaning towards now) is to turn the place where the water hits into a shallow splashdown pond. It would be lined and have rocks on top and would have a streamlike thingy to let any excess water drain off. Okay now you're thinking "What does this have to do with fish? I hope you're not planning on putting them in that!" No, I'm getting to the fish. I want to cut the barrel above the midsection so that the hole for the tap will still be there. We have an old wooden tap that we plan to stick in the hole as a fountain. We want to put the barrel pond on the porch and have a pump in the splashdown pond that pumps the water into the barrel (with liner of course) and then flows out the tap, when the water level gets high enough, and back into the splashdown pond near the edge of the porch. I know that little black particles come off the roof. I could put a sponge on the pump intake to keep it out of the barrel. Would it be safe to put a few goldfish in the barrel? Or is there something else that would run off the roof and harm them?