Egmel
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My parents have had a pond in a bath tub for years and when I gutted my bathroom I thought it'd be fun to do the same thing.
The basic idea is that the bath will be semi-sunk but mainly proud of the ground with earth/rocks banked up round it. Partly for insulation but also so I can plant it with alpine plants. (It will also reduce the amount of digging required ). I'm intending to use rocks/stones siliconed to the bath edge to make stepping stones for wildlife to get in and out of it, as well as using bricks on the bottom to get the right height for various plant pots.
We've kept the sink too and thought of using this as a waterfall into the bath (not from it's full height). I had wondered if I could use this as a filter too but then realised I'd have to turn it off during winter and soon gave up on that idea!
We popped into the LFS over the weekend to have a look at pumps/filters and now I'm even more confused than I was before I went in! The guys were great, but there's just so much choice and I'm not sure I want to pay for what seemed the best solution (a cannister filter which takes the water from the plug and spouts it back through the waterfall). They also had an all in one submersible pump/filter, but it looked huge, the bath is just a standard size (1700x700) and I don't want to take up the entire base with an all singing all dancing solution.
This is where I now admit that my parents don't even have a pump on theirs, as a fish keeper I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this, however they seem to keep goldfish admirably and since they've been breeding they've been passing them on to my sister! Should I be so worried? Will a small pond with a few fish be ok with just a pump for water circulation and plenty of plants?
The basic idea is that the bath will be semi-sunk but mainly proud of the ground with earth/rocks banked up round it. Partly for insulation but also so I can plant it with alpine plants. (It will also reduce the amount of digging required ). I'm intending to use rocks/stones siliconed to the bath edge to make stepping stones for wildlife to get in and out of it, as well as using bricks on the bottom to get the right height for various plant pots.
We've kept the sink too and thought of using this as a waterfall into the bath (not from it's full height). I had wondered if I could use this as a filter too but then realised I'd have to turn it off during winter and soon gave up on that idea!
We popped into the LFS over the weekend to have a look at pumps/filters and now I'm even more confused than I was before I went in! The guys were great, but there's just so much choice and I'm not sure I want to pay for what seemed the best solution (a cannister filter which takes the water from the plug and spouts it back through the waterfall). They also had an all in one submersible pump/filter, but it looked huge, the bath is just a standard size (1700x700) and I don't want to take up the entire base with an all singing all dancing solution.
This is where I now admit that my parents don't even have a pump on theirs, as a fish keeper I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this, however they seem to keep goldfish admirably and since they've been breeding they've been passing them on to my sister! Should I be so worried? Will a small pond with a few fish be ok with just a pump for water circulation and plenty of plants?