Pump is a basic pond pump from lowes and it's inside of a pot that has a hole in the back for the wire and hose that goes out the back and up to the filter pot. Inside the filter pot are bioballs, pebbles and filter pads. I drilled a hole in the front of the filter pot for water return.
nice dude. you should maybe build a small plant bed around the top. just slant the bedding at an angle and place some shrubs, you may get butterfly's and stuff to drink from the pond then.
billy abbott that's a good idea. Plant it where? Beside the filter on the slate or on the deck railing above the pond? I get a mockingbird drinking from the return waterfall ha.
yeah, where the blue faced pot is, along there and round the back of the filter pot. You'd have to pull the whole setup out maybe 5-10inches. But the soil close to the water will attract more insects, birds and other critters. You could maybe do with getting a more sturdy route for bigger animals to get out too. Sometimes things like mice may venture up, fall in and a lilly pad is not strong enough to support them :/ But i dunno, i love gardening so i always like to throw out ideas! good luck man!
Mark T The lily came from Lowes and they come in a mesh bag kinda thing...next time you're there look at one. They're in the plant area and are in what looks like a slurpee cup. I just dropped it in where I wanted it and it's been growing for 2 years now! I'm going to do another video this weekend. Thanks.
The plants do most of the work keeping everything healthy and water crystal clear but I do a 5 gallon water change every month and I take a gallon out every week to water the outdoor plants. The filter pot had a bunch of media and the gravel bed in the pond is about 4 inches deep. Still going strong coming up on 7 years now. I feed the fish twice a day during the warmer months and never in the winter.
So do you take the fish out in the winter or do you keep enough water open for the fish to survive? It sounds like you let the plants freeze in the winter and they come back? Can you speak more about the wintering over of the pond?
The fish and plants winter over. If the pond freezes I create an opening for oxygen exchange and they do fine. I never feed them over the winter. Cattails and lily just "die off" over the winter and then come back in spring.
It gets below freezing some times in VA where I'm located. They can survive. If it freezes over you just have to drill a few holes through the ice or put a pot of boiling water on top of the ice to create a hole for gas exchange.
Faye Raively I kept the plants in the small pot they came in and sat them on a mesh pot that's upside down to elevate them closer to the surface. I then dropped the gravel used for the substrate onto the top of the plant in the pot to give it some weight to help hold it in place. I cut holes in the sides of the mesh plaatic pots so the fish can swim through so you don't really lose any water volume or swimming room for the fish. Sitting the plants on terracotta pots or large rocks would decrease the water volume...little trick the pond store recommended. I'm going to do an updated video soon, waiting for my water lily to flower! Let me know if you have any questions.
I have a question. Cannot find an answer in any tutorial. How and what fartilizer one can use for waterlilies' pond with guppies in it? Won't the fertilizer like “NPK 20 20 20" harm and kill guppies or Koi?
If you don't mind me asking, how much was your budget for this project. Do you always have the filter running? I'm looking to start one for my Rosy red minnows.
Asia Pereira I didn't really have a budget but the barrel was $50 or so and the pump was another $50 or $60. Probably have $150 in it total after filter media, liner, gravel, plants and etc. I turn off the pump in the winter when freezing. Rosy Reds would work perfectly.
Ted Lambert Awesome, thanks for the reply. I was looking at some other builds for whiskey barrel ponds and yours is by far the most efficient and beautiful looking.
It's just attached at the top with staples. The liner was the thickness recommended and purchased from Lowes. I laid it in flat on the bottom and trimmed the excess. Then I started the liner and kept folding it over as it turned with the shape of the top of the barrel.
I don't see why not if you use a pond liner inside. If yours was once an actual liquid holding barrel at some time it may still hold water but I'd recommend a pond liner.
Rick Rich the actual filtration media inside the pot are bioballs like you would use in an aquarium, aquarium gravel and the foam pads to catch larger objects that pass through the pump. The bioballs and the gravel give the bacteria a place to live and the waterfall back into the tank oxygenates the water. The "filter" is just a nice pot that I drilled a small u shaped groove in the back for the return hose to sit on and the slot that is the return waterfall was drilled out with a drill bit. I drilled 4 small holes beside each other in a line and then just used the bit to connect the holes and create a slot. Works great.
So imagine a 100 liter patio pond, then i would recommend a 200-400 l/h pump. With a pond you dont need as much circulation. Tell me the size pond ill tell you
Bonnie Creevy That was a learning experience for me...bought the liner at Lowes and basically put the entire liner in the barrel so the bottom was flat and then started cutting. Cut off large section around the top and then started doing little folds going in the same direction around the top lip and stapling it down. Then cut off the excess around the top.
Aztec Girl They basically hunker down in the bottom part of the pond that doesn't freeze. I make sure the entire surface doesn't freeze so there can still be room for gas exchange so they can breathe. I also don't feed them because their metabolisms slow down so much.
Ted Lambert oh okay. I wanted to try this on my back patio. But then I got to wondering what I do with fish when it freezes. The coldest it gets in the part of California that I live in is 20°. How do you keep it from freezing entirely? Thanks for your reply. I love your idea!
Aztec Girl Thank you! I'm going to do another video soon! I break up any surface ice that I see every time I let the dogs outside. Like this year, if we have extended cold periods and it freezes over completely, I do a trick I read...boil a pot of water and them just rest the pot on the top of the ice..it'll melt it quickly and provide a nice, round unfrozen surface area!
Great idea! I just got back from a UK garden centre with exact same barrel and idea. I’m using a piece of deck board which I burned with a blow torch to char the wood and age it. This will hold the pot like yours which will contain lava rock and 2 sponge filters. I already had a spare aquarium power head to act as a pump. Just waiting on my pond liner to arrive so I can fill up. My barrel was £29. I think all in, I’m looking at a total cost of £50 and 4 hours work. I hope mine looks as good as yours when it’s grown in 👍
The lowes by me has a pond section outside where all the plants and gardening stuff is located. There is a whole section with plastic pond liners, filters, chemicals, pumps and everything. I don't remember the brand but it is an actual pond pump.
Jess ha go to lowes, home depot or any pond store and buy your barrel, liner, pump and filter material and build!! Let me know if you have any specific questions!
Your pond is absolutely gorgeous, one of the best I've seen.
This is pretty much exactly what I’m trying to accomplish with my wine barrel pond. Looks great.
beautiful pond, great idea with using a pot as a filter, plan on setting up multiples of these around the house thanks for the inspiration!
This is excellent and you have a great voice.
so pretty ! like the idea with the pump ..
Your video has inspired me to make a almost identical pond! Thank you!
Awesome!! Go for it and good luck!!
Great little pond!!!
Nice pond. I am looking for some ideas and examples, and you just gave a nice one. Thanks!
Wow! I’m Montagnard indigenous I love you pond it’s lovely.
Hi was so impressed with your pond I made one for my garden and I love it great idea thanks for sharing 😉
Great to hear!! Good luck and thank you!
I love it I'm getting mine all ready for this summer
Love this. I'd love to hear more about the pump & filter setup you have going on.
Me too.
Pump is a basic pond pump from lowes and it's inside of a pot that has a hole in the back for the wire and hose that goes out the back and up to the filter pot. Inside the filter pot are bioballs, pebbles and filter pads. I drilled a hole in the front of the filter pot for water return.
@@tedlambert12 could you do a video on setting it up please
@@tedlambert12 Yes could you do a video on set up please?
That’s really cool ,I like it .
1:44 in…water canna. Thanks for the great idea.
Well done, hi Bolt!
Great barrel pond 😀
Very nice!
great job
Very cool!
Nice! Reminds me of mine
Good looking pond brother. Would you please let me know what name of all the plants you have in the water ? Thank bro..
Hi Ted, are you able to give a supply list on what is all needed? What kinds of plants do you have?
nice dude. you should maybe build a small plant bed around the top. just slant the bedding at an angle and place some shrubs, you may get butterfly's and stuff to drink from the pond then.
billy abbott that's a good idea. Plant it where? Beside the filter on the slate or on the deck railing above the pond? I get a mockingbird drinking from the return waterfall ha.
yeah, where the blue faced pot is, along there and round the back of the filter pot. You'd have to pull the whole setup out maybe 5-10inches. But the soil close to the water will attract more insects, birds and other critters. You could maybe do with getting a more sturdy route for bigger animals to get out too. Sometimes things like mice may venture up, fall in and a lilly pad is not strong enough to support them :/ But i dunno, i love gardening so i always like to throw out ideas! good luck man!
Very nice.....that water lettuce will cover the whole thing in 3 weeks
Do you need a filter? What if you don’t have one and just some water that runs/bubbles from solar power? Is the filter required?
Woooo so beautiful
Did you at least cover the pond during the winter? How cold does your winter get?
Did you cover the pond for the winter?
How did u overwinter the plants? Im in zone 7 - can i leave pond plants out during the freezing months?
Do you have a filter in it, i need to get 1 but there all huge
Hi there Ted. What size pump is this please? Is it around 400l per hour?
What did you use to line the barrel?
do you feed the fish or let them eat the algue etc
Cuales plantas usas??
How many litres or gallons is it
amazing ! did you plant the lily in substrate or is in left in a planter basket?
Mark T The lily came from Lowes and they come in a mesh bag kinda thing...next time you're there look at one. They're in the plant area and are in what looks like a slurpee cup. I just dropped it in where I wanted it and it's been growing for 2 years now! I'm going to do another video this weekend. Thanks.
thank you !
How do you keep the fish healthy , do you change some of the water regularly, & how often do you feed them,
The plants do most of the work keeping everything healthy and water crystal clear but I do a 5 gallon water change every month and I take a gallon out every week to water the outdoor plants. The filter pot had a bunch of media and the gravel bed in the pond is about 4 inches deep. Still going strong coming up on 7 years now. I feed the fish twice a day during the warmer months and never in the winter.
So clean, I need to set up a filter in my barrel.
So do you take the fish out in the winter or do you keep enough water open for the fish to survive? It sounds like you let the plants freeze in the winter and they come back? Can you speak more about the wintering over of the pond?
The fish and plants winter over. If the pond freezes I create an opening for oxygen exchange and they do fine. I never feed them over the winter. Cattails and lily just "die off" over the winter and then come back in spring.
hey how does your filter work?
Nice pond! How cold does it get round you if you can leave them outside?
It gets below freezing some times in VA where I'm located. They can survive. If it freezes over you just have to drill a few holes through the ice or put a pot of boiling water on top of the ice to create a hole for gas exchange.
@@tedlambert12 Gotcha, I live in Illinois. That pond would be a block of ice in Winter. Maybe I can find some sort of heating pad I can sit it on.
So 🥰
Do you have to put the plant in somethingg or do they just kind of stay in the wateR?
Faye Raively I kept the plants in the small pot they came in and sat them on a mesh pot that's upside down to elevate them closer to the surface. I then dropped the gravel used for the substrate onto the top of the plant in the pot to give it some weight to help hold it in place. I cut holes in the sides of the mesh plaatic pots so the fish can swim through so you don't really lose any water volume or swimming room for the fish. Sitting the plants on terracotta pots or large rocks would decrease the water volume...little trick the pond store recommended. I'm going to do an updated video soon, waiting for my water lily to flower! Let me know if you have any questions.
I have a question. Cannot find an answer in any tutorial. How and what fartilizer one can use for waterlilies' pond with guppies in it? Won't the fertilizer like “NPK 20 20 20" harm and kill guppies or Koi?
I've never used fertilizer so I'm not sure.
If you don't mind me asking, how much was your budget for this project. Do you always have the filter running? I'm looking to start one for my Rosy red minnows.
Asia Pereira I didn't really have a budget but the barrel was $50 or so and the pump was another $50 or $60. Probably have $150 in it total after filter media, liner, gravel, plants and etc. I turn off the pump in the winter when freezing. Rosy Reds would work perfectly.
Ted Lambert Awesome, thanks for the reply. I was looking at some other builds for whiskey barrel ponds and yours is by far the most efficient and beautiful looking.
What did you use for the liner and how did you attach it?
It's just attached at the top with staples. The liner was the thickness recommended and purchased from Lowes. I laid it in flat on the bottom and trimmed the excess. Then I started the liner and kept folding it over as it turned with the shape of the top of the barrel.
I have a barrel that has been charred on the inside. Will this work ok do you think?
I don't see why not if you use a pond liner inside. If yours was once an actual liquid holding barrel at some time it may still hold water but I'd recommend a pond liner.
Im tryna make one rn
We’re did u buy the ceramic pot for the filter?
Home depot or lowes. It's Allen and roth brand
Can you show us how you fabricated the filter?
Rick Rich the actual filtration media inside the pot are bioballs like you would use in an aquarium, aquarium gravel and the foam pads to catch larger objects that pass through the pump. The bioballs and the gravel give the bacteria a place to live and the waterfall back into the tank oxygenates the water. The "filter" is just a nice pot that I drilled a small u shaped groove in the back for the return hose to sit on and the slot that is the return waterfall was drilled out with a drill bit. I drilled 4 small holes beside each other in a line and then just used the bit to connect the holes and create a slot. Works great.
What size pump do u need for this and would u recommend a solar powered pump?
So imagine a 100 liter patio pond, then i would recommend a 200-400 l/h pump. With a pond you dont need as much circulation. Tell me the size pond ill tell you
Im trying tofind a solar 1, only found solar fountains
How did you fit the liner?
Bonnie Creevy That was a learning experience for me...bought the liner at Lowes and basically put the entire liner in the barrel so the bottom was flat and then started cutting. Cut off large section around the top and then started doing little folds going in the same direction around the top lip and stapling it down. Then cut off the excess around the top.
Ted Lambert how about the filter? How did you make that? I couldn't make out some of what you said. What would you buy for the filter?
are the fish happy?
Very. Little over 3.5 years old now and doing great!
What happens to the fish in the winter?
Aztec Girl They basically hunker down in the bottom part of the pond that doesn't freeze. I make sure the entire surface doesn't freeze so there can still be room for gas exchange so they can breathe. I also don't feed them because their metabolisms slow down so much.
Ted Lambert oh okay. I wanted to try this on my back patio. But then I got to wondering what I do with fish when it freezes. The coldest it gets in the part of California that I live in is 20°. How do you keep it from freezing entirely? Thanks for your reply. I love your idea!
Aztec Girl Thank you! I'm going to do another video soon! I break up any surface ice that I see every time I let the dogs outside. Like this year, if we have extended cold periods and it freezes over completely, I do a trick I read...boil a pot of water and them just rest the pot on the top of the ice..it'll melt it quickly and provide a nice, round unfrozen surface area!
Ted Lambert oh okay thank you! Hope to see more! SUBSCRIBED 😎👍
Great idea! I just got back from a UK garden centre with exact same barrel and idea. I’m using a piece of deck board which I burned with a blow torch to char the wood and age it. This will hold the pot like yours which will contain lava rock and 2 sponge filters. I already had a spare aquarium power head to act as a pump. Just waiting on my pond liner to arrive so I can fill up. My barrel was £29. I think all in, I’m looking at a total cost of £50 and 4 hours work. I hope mine looks as good as yours when it’s grown in 👍
Idyllic
Where did you get the pump?
The pump itself is just one from the pond section in the outdoor area of lowes
Ted Lambert okay all the ones I’ve seen are just for like temporary use to drain a pond or tank, not to leave on all the time
The lowes by me has a pond section outside where all the plants and gardening stuff is located. There is a whole section with plastic pond liners, filters, chemicals, pumps and everything. I don't remember the brand but it is an actual pond pump.
They had many sizes of these pumps too. Check there or home depot should have similar pumps.
Ted Lambert thank you!
How can I do some similar?
Jess ha go to lowes, home depot or any pond store and buy your barrel, liner, pump and filter material and build!! Let me know if you have any specific questions!
Ted Lambert Thanks!☺ I am going to check those places.
Ted,love your pond but ugh the zoom in and out camera...
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