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      great pond build my friend
      ive just read it from start to finish about 4 hours all in
      it looks really good and now is the time to enjoy
      5500 uk gallon pond
      filtered by a double sieve bead combo
      all running over a shower

      waters not wet untill you touch it : steve fowler

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      Your pond and falls look wonderful, Steve! I'm sure you'll enjoy it for a long time to come!


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      Great looking air Steve!
      Have a Merry Christmas. More koi coming in the spring?

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      Thank you everyone!
      I can't wait to have the falls flowin' again!

      Quote Originally Posted by JMorris271 View Post
      Great looking air Steve!
      Have a Merry Christmas. More koi coming in the spring?
      Thx J!
      I'm certain more little pets will find their way to the pond by spring...
      They're all in the garage for the winter right now... and they all look happy
      and still eating (a little)... I'm still trying to get the hang of picking good ones
      when they're still tosai... I've found that they're similar to bonsai... trying to
      envision what they'll look like in the future is a challange.

      Thanks for checkin' in buddy, and you have a very Merry Christmas too!
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      Uh, Dave?

      Dave's not here man.



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      Looks very good Steve.
      U had a vision...it is so romantic...
      Lots of hard work too....
      Now like me U made a more formal pond, just for them..
      Hope we are not going to make 3rd one ....
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      Very nice job

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      Congratulations Steve....only 10 years too late! It has taken me 3 days to read through this entire thread, and I enjoyed every bit of it. You did a beautiful job, and it is very inspiring. Now I'm off to read the lower pond thread.

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      Thanks Charlie!
      As most ponds do sooner or later, it's transitioned from the SC and MB filters to a sieve and a bead filter, which
      probably will be replaced with a shower at some point if I can figure out a way to plumb it and make it work with
      the small tpr's, but I've enjoyed it a lot.
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      Quote Originally Posted by IAmHolland View Post
      Might I ask why?
      Absolutely!
      Because the SC was a pia to clean and at about 450 gallons or so it took ~200g of water every time
      I had to dump it, clean, and refill. The MB's were set up to be gravity fed from the SC and I had no
      way in the filter pit to raise them in order to return the water back to the pond.
      I actually ran it just with the sieve and a couple of s/g filters for a year and it was enough bio to keep
      up with the seven fish in the pond... but the bead filter was just an experiment because I'd never had one.
      It works well but has a lot of head so after a couple years of using it, it might be time for it to go.

      I've got a lot of room so I've thought about putting a shower several feet higher than pond level and
      about 30' away in the woods, and then gravity feeding it back to the pond. The tpr's are only 1 1/2",
      which in hindsight was a big mistake, so with such small return pipes, there's a lot of head to over come
      when trying to gravity feed them.
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      Steve,
      At one point it appears you were considering a semi-buried shower; but I haven't discovered why you did not pursue that plan. On a sloping site such as yours a semi-buried enclosed shower would seem to be a low cost & effective year around solution for many folks in moderate temperature areas? What do you think?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
      Steve,
      At one point it appears you were considering a semi-buried shower; but I haven't discovered why you did not pursue that plan. On a sloping site such as yours a semi-buried enclosed shower would seem to be a low cost & effective year around solution for many folks in moderate temperature areas? What do you think?
      I'd forgotten about that... I'm not sure why I didn't pursue it more other than I wasn't sure it was going to work.
      I had never built a shower or gravity returned that amount of water, but in hindsight I think it would have physically
      worked fine. But I am glad my showers are in an enclosed shed. Iirc I was thinking of placing the shower in between
      the two ponds along the route of the stream. Knowing now how much noise is generated from 10k gph flowing through
      a 4 tier shower, I think if it had been out in the open it would have been very distracting.
      It might be fun to try burying one on the upper pond and feed it via the Ultra III sieve and gravity return to the 5 tpr's.
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      Great thread Steve! Thank you for sharing. Definitely learned a lot On to the smaller pond thread tomorrow!

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      Thank you! The other pond is smaller surface area but actually about 1000 more gallons.
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