Majority of the people with backyard planned to have a garden pond in their place to make a very natural look to their backyard. Thinking about setting up a garden pond seems very easy. Most of us will just think that making a hole, filling it water and then adding fish will do the job. Actually there's more to just these things. After creating a hole in your backyard, you have to make sure that you are putting the water with the right temperature, the right ph and the right nutrients. Also, you have to make sure that you have sufficient pond supplies such as biofilter so your pond won't look like a compost pit after a couple of weeks. You also have to choose the right fish for the type of pond that you have.
Since most of the first time pond owners experience New Pond Syndrome, or the scenario wherein fish are becoming unhealthy and sickly, eventually resulting to the fish death, we came up with five things that you should take into consideration when you have your own garden pond.
First, you do not just dig a hole in your backyard and just put water and dump your fish in there. You should make sure that you put a plastic lining to securely separate the ground from the hole that will be your pond. This will ensure that soil and the soil nutrients will not get into the pond. Excessive nutrients from the soil will pacify algal bloom, so we really have to be careful with this one.
Second thing that you should do is to shop for different plants that you can put in your pond. You cannot just put any kind of plants into your pond; you have to research the types of plants that can be helpful to your pond. You might encounter the words oxygenators (plants that provide shade and takes up carbon dioxide in the water and gives off oxygen for the plants), floaters (which floats in the water and help maintain the right temperature for the fish), the marginal (which beautify your pond and also gives extra shade to your pond) and the deep water aquatic (which protect your pond from direct sunlight and also beautifies your pond).
Third, you should choose the right spot where in you will place your pond. You have to remember that location also determines how much work you should exert in maintaining your pond. For example, placing your pond under a tree may seem like a very nice landscape, but that will also mean that you have to fish out the debris from the tree every now and then to make sure that those debris will not decay in your pond. If it does, then you will have a problem with excessive nutrition in your pond water. It will encourage ammonia to take over your pond.
Fourth, also avoid placing your pond on the lowest ground level in your backyard. The tendency is that the water from your lawn will flood your pond. The debris that comes with the water can also cause some problem.
The last thing that you should do is outlining the edges of your pond with rocks. This might sound easy, but it's not. You cannot just put any kind of rock. You have to ensure that these rocks do not give off harmful chemicals or substance.
These are just some of the basic things that you should ponder when starting a pond. There's more to it actually, but knowing five of them will really help you a lot.
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