Porous Pave Patio
When the excavation was completed and the rubber liner was placed and sandwiched between the layers of geotextile fabric, we were then able to place our rain tanks…
January / February 2016
Best Practices: How to Gracefully Conceal Your Filtration Equipment
To be efficient, pond filtration equipment is usually installed as close to the pond as possible. Hiding these parts can be as creative an endeavor as building the pond itself. Many times the ability to hide equipment in plain sight aesthetically makes or breaks a pond’s appearance. Customers want to see the pond —“ not …
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Peer Into the Future for Show-Winning Koi!
One of the most enjoyable aspects of owning a koi pond is picking out your new pond family members. A trip to your local koi dealer is exciting, and you generally have a plan in mind before you walk through the gates. For instance, how many koi do you need? What size? Which colors or …
Ever-Changing Plans Makes Building Ponds Tougher
It’s not every day that Universal Aquatics of Atlanta, Georgia gets an opportunity to create something we have never created before. “Asian spice meets the Tennessee Hills with a mix of formal simplicity and a touch of rustic flair, in a nutshell” is what our team was tasked with developing and constructing. In April of …
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Swimming Ponds vs. Natural Swimming Pools
When a designer/builder sells a concept to a homeowner to construct a vessel with the intent of having people swim in it — but instead of using chemicals to treat the water, the swimming water will be treated with biological filtration — what should we call this vessel? Two terms are being bandied about in the …
Using QuickBooks for your Pond Business
Accounting is a necessary evil for all business owners. Unless you can afford to hire someone —“ and don’t get me started on where that can go wrong —“ you need to know how to at least do the basics. Enter QuickBooks, a pretty user-friendly bookkeeping program that doesn’t require you to go back and …
How to Choose the Right Pond Liner
Ponds and lakes come in a variety of shapes and sizes. No matter if it’s a small backyard water garden, a rain catchment basin, a fish farm pond, a stormwater basin, an irrigation lake or a recreational and storage reservoir…in order for it to adequately hold water, the basin must be constructed of a low-permeability …
The Precarious Artistry of Balancing Stones
The art of precariously placing stones atop one another, usually in creative and highly improbable formations, with the assistance of nothing other than gravity. For some it’s a hobby…for others, a form of meditation, a way to exercise creativity or even a profession. It is stone balancing…and it is my passion. Below is a compilation …
Protect Patina with Proper Pond Management
Every pond is as unique as its owner. This uniqueness results from a huge number of variables, including climate, size and style of pond, fish, plants, human involvement, circulation, filters…the list goes on. However, there is one aspect of all ponds that is the same. That is the pond’s biofilm, or what I like to …
Unleashing a Pond Feature Fit for a Wild Animal
One weekday afternoon, a customer came into our store inquiring about installing a pond water feature. Interestingly, he followed it up with, “I’ve looked it up online and I really do not want to buy a bunch of expensive jazz.” With all the home remedies out there and the DIY channel, who can blame him? …