Project sunken garden

[nkm68]

@km68,
19mm glass. Far over the safe limit, I'm glad that I picked such thickness now I can safely lean or no worry when accidentaly knocks the glass. It looks good too, a match with the tank size.
You can actually escape with 12mm if on a budget.

Thanks for the reply. What's the water volume of your lovely creation?

[Jungle-mania]

Ever thought of using a float to move around your pond to maintain your pond, that way you don't have to waddle through it. Plus you can laze on the float too.

[BFG]

I think a school of altum, a big shoal of blue green tetra, a pinch of red-line torpedo and some cleaner crew could be ideal.

[oblivion]

@lee1224, Several hundread perhaps would be more practical and likely possible. Must resist and think of maintenance needed.

the dimensions of the whole thing is kinda confusing on my eye
it does look it could support a thousand tetras or two

[medicineman]

@nkm68,
Pond volume is estimated to be around 3000 liters at the least.

@Jungle-mania,
That is funny but doable. Not for this pond though, a floaty would be too big.

@fireblade,
Will be planting more on the waterfall. Moss, fern, anubias perhaps. One thing sure the waterfall will develop a thin layer of algae over time and it would be a welcome addition.

@BFG,
I love those fish. But altum seems to be very hard to find and painfully expensive around here. Red torpedo (denisonii) is already in the list, managed to secure a small shoal of 20.

@lee1224,
It could. But I just prefer not to push it too crowded in sake of maintenance.


Some more pics of still murky pond.
Will update later on when water is crystal clear.





Currently the pond is much visible, water start to clear up. Some mucus-like growth appear at the bottom, a good sign of beneficial bacterial growth (they stabilize tank and clot fine particles to sink).

[medicineman]

here is the garden around 4-5 days after initial setup day.
Water clears up a bit and already I put in several algae eater to counter excessive algae growth.



Lets see towards free time and more possible plants and hardscape to use in the pond.
Some tree trunk or bark and more plants for the cliff would be nice.

So I decided to put one of my favourite fish in, a hundread of schooling rummy nose for a start. Pre order is necessary at this scale and now it proves good to know someone from local fish farm

[Slough Shark]

That is a Kingly setup you have there!! Amazing work, and thanks very much for sharing it!

[iwishweallcouldwin]

your setup is amazing beyond description.

[Graeme]

I just wanted to say that i have really enjoyed this journey.
Its nearing completion and has got better and better.

Thank you so much for sharing with use.
I am still awstruck every time i see your work of art.

Graeme

[iwishweallcouldwin]

i agree with you graeme, and im sure many others agree with you too. thanks for sharing your amazing project with us. simply awesome.

[leslens]

amazing work, cant wait for the foreground plants to be planted.

one question
wat are the dimensions of the tank?

[Goondoo]

@Jungle-mania,
That is funny but doable. Not for this pond though, a floaty would be too big.

A surf board sounds good!

[medicineman]

@leslens,
Dimention is around 2.4 x 2m if you take the straight lines.

Sorry for the lack of updates for I've been trying very hard and keep ending up at the notification board eversince the forum migration.

Here is a quickie pic of the current condition. Taken from one of the viewing window.



The bacth of 150 red nose arrived. I purchased directly from a local fish farm. As you know very well that red nose is so prone to mass fatality every now and then. I tried to keep the risk minimal by reducing the stress from transportation, water parameter and cramped holding tank. Turns out to be a wise step to take for two weeks later the bacth is swimming happily and eating well ... without any fatality observed

I did added some plants, donor from my other tanks. Turns out that just like in a typical tank which condition will differ from house to house, no every plant survive in the pond. I will keep trying in small number and see the best choise.

[ranmasatome]

Dedy...
Wonderful tank.... been quitely reading this thread... think its been an absolute effort on your part.. and i really respect that. Great work.. the tank is really starting to look up now eh? hahaha..

[iwishweallcouldwin]

good choice of fish! very nice. always liked rummynoses.

[medicineman]

@iwishweallcouldwin,
Next would be puntius denisonii, I plan to get at least 20-30 of them. That is if my supplier can make available. Already I got 10 cory sterbai as bottom feeders.

@ranmasatome,
Well most plants do survive well, esp the ones I brought back from Singapore. It is just a different kind of satisfaction when you set and able maintain it yourself, it is not always about big bucks to own such setup and I'm sure glad.

I havent got the chance to saw off that white drain pipe, it kinda gets on the way of view. Need to puddle in and get soaked to do so...

Here, another quickie mobile phone pic


The water looks a bit murky because my mistake, I put a ladder into the pond to fix the metal halide pendant. The darn thing seems to have spoiled its starter component which sometimes failed to kick the light on.

Another homework is the submersed gray rain bar pipe. I plan to paint them black so they will blend in better. Right now they are just too contrast and obvious.

[StanChung]

Hi Dedy, sigh.... so wonderful!
If it's not too late, I'd put a swivel for the MH so that it can be swung back in for maintenance.

[Goondoo]

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The water looks a bit murky because my mistake, I put a ladder into the pond to fix the metal halide pendant. The darn thing seems to have spoiled its starter component which sometimes failed to kick the light on.

Errr.... You do know that MH lights have a "cool off time" before it can be started again, right?

[medicineman]

Sure I know (I have 6 other MH lamp).
The lamp just sometimes wont start up even when it is dead cold (on timer). It is kind of frustrating when it fail because you need it so much. Upon inspection I found melted connector... so definately it is the light shop fault for no being careful when they assemble (loose connection is the likely cause).

It turns out that my supplier cannot give me those 30 puntius fish I want. These fish just rescently being bred locally, with the imported ones much too sensitive and high-risk, I'd rather wait for the next local batch. Oh well, right now I must be satisfied with just bala shark.

[StanChung]

Bala shark? I thought they nibble on plants? Puntius denisoniis nibble on plants too, especially small soft leaved plants.