Building a pond, Need advice.
Recently moved into a house with an existing pond, but we are wanting to move it to the other side of the garden to create more grass space for the dogs.
So the new pond I'm building is going to be 3x2x1 metre, with a waterfall at one end. Looking for advice on what filter/pump I should be looking at, skimmers, plants and any other things I may not have thought about
Located in the UK, so weather is temperamental at best.
Cheers
Posted Apr 4, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC
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I'm in the UK so here's the native plants I have: hornwort for oxygenation, purple loosestrife, marsh marigold, water forget-me-not, lesser spearwort, frog bit. All chosen for being native, good for wildlife, and OK in a small pond.
Mine is a wildlife pond with no pumps or filters, so I can't help with the rest.
If you need wildlife safe algae control use barley straw or extract (or have tadpoles). For mosquitoes if you get them, mosquito dunks are safe - the wildlife deal with any I get.
There is a bit of info in the wiki including a bit about making pumps safe if yours will be a wildlife pond.
If you have fish I believe you will need filtration, but that's as much as I know.