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View submission: Mega Advice Thread - Pond building tips
Perhaps questions for those of us with little experience or plans would be accepted?
1. Minimum thickness of rubber liner?
2. how deep does a pond need to be to get
some level of cooling from the ground?
3. Waterfalls: better to have height or surface area and a longer slope?
4. Any experience/recommendations with plywood box ponds w/ a viewing window?
Comment by colvin1980 at 22/08/2019 at 12:06 UTC
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Used billboard vinyls work GREAT as a liner and are super duper thick! Way cheaper than pond liner too!
I dug mine 3.5-4 feet deep and fish stay cool when they have too plus they survive just fine in our zone 5b winter.
Comment by Tupiekit at 21/08/2019 at 15:34 UTC
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1. we always used 45mm and that stuff was great.
2. I don't fully know, but we always dug to at least 3 feet deep and never ran into problem
3. It doesn't matter which way to be honest its almost purely up to personal aesthetic reasons. The one thing with really big drops is that you have to be conscious of water splashing (higher drops mean more water splashing) which means your water level will go down faster.
4. Ive never done it, but I would imagine it would be to hard.