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Oct 4 2012

Pond Build Pt 3

Yeah seems to be taking me ages to get to where I want, the actual fill in…

Here are some of the next few pictures. Hopefully the next post will then be with water 🙂

Too much water, so it was a shaky start to the blockwork. But up it goes.

This will house the filter and all the other bits and bobs.

Blocks done. Not a bad job, we’ve other bits and bobs to start now.

Next was to get the bottom drain in, carpet and then sand.

Job done all around, we then left the hose pipe on over night to fill the pond, nice and slow.

Water in, all starting to look good. Soon after some tests we can add fish 🙂

Awesome.

May 2 2011

02/05/11

Ok,  so here are a few pics of our new additions.

Got home in just over 4 and a half hours which was really good going, didn’t hit any traffic. The Koi were calm and seemed only slightly stressed, the female more than the male.

So we introduced them slowly, but the female freaked out right away and tried to escape the pond. The male settled in nosed all the other fish and then had a freak out for about 40 mins. He kept coming up for extra air…

Now that he has stopped doing it, and is more interested in chasing the pregnant female… she has started to bob up to the surface.

I’m sure they will settle in totally soon… just nerve racking watching them stress out.

Dawn

 

he male before we brought him home. And some of the male and female in our bowl. Not big enough though as the male couldn’t stretch out properly.

Will try and get pics when they settle down and are feeding with the others.

Dawn

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Male…
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Not brill  pics I know, but, oh well….