here are some pics of my 'stream' I just put in today......not as good as i wanted it to be, but, good enough :) (sorry for the mess around it, I haven't got a chance to clean it up when i took the picture. :))

going from top to bottom.




i have two mesquito (spelling?) fish in this pool, and a lilly pad.







the full pic of it all.


hope you like the pictures :)

(cinder blocks soon to be replaced with rocks again :laugh: ) maybe one of these days, i can get this down, and actually have a nice pond, with healthy gold fish.....and one koi.

oh, i also put of a shade over it,



not completly finnished either, i still need to trim the edges, and wire a few more edges on, but, other than that, i think it looks pretty good. :drunk: :laugh:

yo let me get this straight, you just dug into the ground and made the pond out of that black *sheet*?


btw, it looks great, nice job man

it's 30 mil thick plasctic pond liner, and, yes :) it isn't done very well.........but, it is the best i could do with the susplies i had.


thanks for commenting. :)

Looks pretty nice! You're lucky you can dig holes in the ground and fill them with water...my parents would EAT me. :laugh:



...what the hell is that huge freaky plant in the 5th pic? :blink:

I think it's coming along very nice. Once you get all the rock put in, and get more vegitation around it. It will look 100x better. Good work though. Wish I had a backyard to make myself a pond. Stupid condo! Look forward to seeing the finished product.

Good call on putting up shade for your pond. I bet the AZ sun can really get that sucker cookin. I would look into getting a uv steralizer. Then the water would be clear instead of algae green. I think you can get one from petco or petsmart for $120 or so. Home depot has them also I believe.

at my LFS they sell them for $120.00 or so, and it is for 700 GPH, and that includes the pump.

btw shadow,

that is an agave cactus, in about 10 or so years, that sucker will have a huge flower stalk about 4 or 5 inches thick, and i think about 10-20 feet tall. it is an awesome plant lol.

thank you for the kind words, i have also been trying many different things to get it to look nice, and, personally, i think this is a good result. (just my point of view)



cheers,


Tyler

Sweet stream Tyler!
Shadow did you know that the agave plant is what they make Tequila out of?