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Having spent part of May excavating and constructing my pond, I finally finished. I know my initial pond film wasn't that great looking, but this one shows what it ultimately looked like. I couldn't be happier!

This vid shows what it ended up looking like. I have put in most of all the required water plants, built a filtration stream, and laid out portage stones to allow a sitting space.

I am very pleased with this project, and would say it is a success. Plenty of happy fish, and everyone who visits seems to really enjoy just sitting next to it.

MATERIALS
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9' x 14.5' hole, 3' deep
Tetra Pond liner
Play sand
Lifegard complete pond filtration system rated for 1200 Gallon ponds
2 x plastic waterfalls containers
Solar lights
Portage Paving stones for patio
Lots and lots of rocks/gravel

Plants
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Water Lettuce (used for filtration in the waterfall)
Water Hyacinthe (Root and surface mat to catch sunlight and lawn runoff)
Hardy Water Lilly (Provide flowers and provide shade to the bottom)
Cattails (gathered from farm pond, used in filtering water)
Rush (gathered from farm pond)
Hornwort (Oxygenator and helps take up nutrients)
Duckweed

Fish
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Comet Gold Fish
Shubunkin Goldfish
Butterfly Koi
Feeder Guppies
Mixed Mollies