It’s been just a couple weeks since the fish pond was rebuilt, and it’s already settled as if it had always been this new way! Clear water, happy fish, and algae and weed grown all over the new waterfall, very pretty!
Long ago (almost a year ago!) we had finished our living room fireplace project, except for new cabinetry for the stereo equipment. We ordered custom cabinetry from Ed Soucy, and waited … and waited …
Yesterday, Ed called us – happy to show us the work he’d completed, and this morning we headed to his workshop to view. But incredibly, last night a fire occurred at the workshop! Thankfully a fast response minimized the damage – a local photographer got some pictures.
While it’s all tragic for Ed, the results this morning for us were unexpected after waiting so long – a dark workshop and damaged woodwork:
We are hoping that there is only smoke damage which can be quickly solved – and hoping that Ed can quickly get back to work, and complete this furniture for us …
Fifteen years ago, Margaret and I built our fish pond in the back garden – during our recent trip to England, it failed, losing all it’s water – thankfully our house sitter, Matt, noticed the problem and got Country Gardens to visit and save the fish in a huge tank, which is what we found on our return to USA. All our fish (maybe 60 in total), and the lilies, were transferred to this 300 gallon container, with an air pump to keep the fish alive (we also needed to replace half the water regularly, since the hot summer sun slowly bakes the fish!) … the fish pond liner meanwhile had multiple failure points, still hard to conclude if the material simply perished and broke up at multiple points, or if some little creature attacked it:
We now had two choices – replace the liner ourselves, or bring in someone else; but swayed by a plan to improve the water filtering, we hired Mike / New England Water Gardens. One big hassle with our original pond was needing to pull out and clean the pump / filter bucket twice a week; Mike planned to install a lower maintenance skimmer, and also contruct an improved waterfall, while also of course replacing the liner. The new skimmer / waterfall also includes a bio-filter tank at the top of the waterfall, so there’s no “T” splitter any more for the pump water, instead Mike used a big 2″ pipe, for higher flow at the waterfall!
Once the basic construction and pipe installation was completed, Mike began transferring water AND FISH from the tank to the new pond:
Then while the pond continued to fill, Mike finished the waterfall construction; meanwhile the fish, confused in their new spacious pond, stayed as hidden as they could:
Finally all was finished, the pump started – and we had an impressive and big new waterfall, and today, the fish all seem settled as if nothing had ever happened!
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