Building an Ecosystem pond in our yard

Timelapse of the process for building an Ecosystem pond.
Is this sub-tropical area of Australia we have lots of wildlife around our house, so this little oasis provides a home for many creatures: frogs, insects, birds, fish, etc...
We wanted to create an ecosystem pond that doesn't use any chemicals and works with nature to provide food, shelter, and safety to the wildlife around us.
This pond holds approx 12,000L of water (around 3,000 Gallons).
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Here are some links to some other videos of this pond:
Underwater view Spring/Summer 2016/2017
• Front yard pond underw...
Underwater view Autumm 2017
• Relaxing view of under...
Underwater view Autumm 2017 - Re-stock with Australian Native species
• Australian Native fish...
Underwater view Winter 2017 - Update
• Underwater view of our...
Underwater view Spring 2017 - Tropical Angelfish school added
September - • Angel fish pond - Preview
October - • Spring Splash: New Fac...
All copyrights for music in this video go to:
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Song: Zion (Interlude)
Artist: Hillsong UNITED
Hillsong United with EMI Records.
Licensed to KZbin by Hillsong (on behalf of Hillsong Music and Resources LLC); LatinAutor, ASCAP, UMPI, Capitol CMG Publishing, Adorando Publishing, and 8 music rights societies
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Song: Pink Skye (Toby Hedges Remix)
Artist: Ronski Speed & Syntrobic feat. Renee Stahl
Licensed to KZbin by Sony ATV Publishing, LatinAutor, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - SonyATV, and 1 music rights societies

[@lucylu5118]

Absolutely beautiful! Love the way the kids are taking an interest and are interacting with the fish.. Its really nice to see! Great job 👍

[@marianoaran]

Thank you Lucy. It was a very hands on project as we tried to do as much as we could ourselves. Our soil is mostly clay, so there were rain water tables trapped in the clay, and it started filtering and kept flooding the hole during the excavation process, so we had to do quite a bit manually (it would have been much easier to do everything with the excavator, but hey, where's the fun! hahaha. You're right, it's good to get kids involved in the garden as this generation (and ours) have grown to be so connected with technology and so disconnected with nature.

[@lucylu5118]

@@marianoaran you're welcome.. I'm in the uk unfortunately, So I don't have the good weather the majority of the time, but when the spring comes I like to spend time in the garden. I have a pond outside with gold fish but the majority of my fish are inside.. I'm all for creating a natural environment for my animal's and have been ever since childhood.. I also feel children are too immersed with technology.. I'm always trying to involve my 12 and 14 year old with the fish/other pets but unfortunately they're not interested much at the moment.. Times have changed, I'm mid 30's and can't believe the difference from when I was little.. So much pleasure in nature and how it works.. Was lovely to see the end result of your pond and your children enjoying it too! Thanks for taking the time to reply. 🙂

[@holdenboy1960]

that is absolutely lovely and nice to see the Children involved in the project thank you for sharing

[@marianoaran]

Thank you Shane! It was a fun doing this with them, and a great learning experience too :)

[@irietropicals4255]

Looks peaceful. Nice work.

[@marianoaran]

thank you

[@sevensurvival]

Masterpiece ! Excellent, Artistic, and well done. Thanks, and Respect.

[@marianoaran]

Wow! Thanks Ivan :)

[@peterm2154]

love your pond, looks great :)

[@marianoaran]

Thanks Peter!

[@Tupunaforever]

Well done, beautiful pond and landscape

[@marianoaran]

Thank you Francis

[@user-lm6zs3iy8q]

Its very awesome pond!! I love it! It really looks like a waterfall in nature!

[@marianoaran]

Thank you 염지호!

[@user-lm6zs3iy8q]

@@marianoaran your welcome:)

[@emcrazycatlady8261]

Bloody fantastic video !! amazing:) fantastic music well done

[@marianoaran]

+Emma Grant Thank you Emma. Glad you like it. It's getting better with time as landscape around it is slowly maturing. I'll post an update when I have some time to make a new video :-)

[@basics_gk7676]

so much of hard work hatsoff, they way of enjoining at climax awesome

[@marianoaran]

Thanks Girish :)

[@nguyenthanho1172]

You guys are awesome!

[@marianoaran]

thank you :)

[@potkosongbonsai1818]

this is so cool

[@marianoaran]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@nature-agt3725]

Very nice!

[@marianoaran]

Thanks!

[@JojoJojo-hm1yg]

Good job

[@marianoaran]

Thank you

[@joseburgos613]

Good job!!!!

[@marianoaran]

Thanks! :)

[@idaniamorales6058]

Amazing

[@marianoaran]

Thanks Idania :)

[@radikariamboro]

So natural.

[@taekookgirl7220]

Yes

[@marianoaran]

Thank you!

[@purnamalampung8935]

Good

[@marianoaran]

Thanks

[@zatlan5445]

You have a very nice house

[@marianoaran]

Thank you! :)

[@potkosongbonsai1818]

Mantap Bozzkuu

[@marianoaran]

haha, thank you!

[@rustyshackleford2627]

I love it but should have been dug a couple feet deeper and bigger around !!! 👍👍👍

[@marianoaran]

Hello Rusty. Thanks for your comment :) Depth was the maximum allowed in our state in Australia, otherwise I would have had to put a fence around it. Bigger around? possibly but I was already stretching our budget :p Nice you're watching videos like this instead of COVID stuff :)

[@taekookgirl7220]

Well done

[@marianoaran]

Thanks Ayesha

[@ramirohernandez8663]

how do they survive with rain water dropping?

[@marianoaran]

mmm, not sure what you mean? rain water is good :-)

[@tallulahtwosocks6214]

Where does the overflow water go when it rains?

[@taekookgirl7220]

Pond ecosystem project kaise banaye

[@marianoaran]

Cheers

[@WesleyAPEX]

All that work for a 300 gallon pond...

[@marianoaran]

12K litres, around 3,000 gallon not 300 gallon ;-)

[@MH-rj3jf]

Did it ever start growing algae?

[@marianoaran]

Yes, but nothing out of control. In summer days at the top of the main waterfall the water was very shallow and it got sun for many hours of the days so it grew an dense algae mat that covered the flat rock. I liked it though, and it was always full of red cherry shrimp that seemed to like it too. Then, there were some algae strings here and there, but they come and go. I usually remove the ones that don't look good when I see them... In general, algae is not a problem at all. Now we're in autumn, temp dropped and water is crystal clear and algae is totally gone.

[@sito64]

Very cool how many gallons?

[@marianoaran]

thanks. (12,000 liters) 3,000gal

[@AngryKittens]

12,000 liters is only around 3000 gallons. Not 400,000. >_> 400,000 gallons is almost the size of an Olympic swimming pool. LOL Very nice pond though. :)

[@marianoaran]

hehe, you're right! :-) just fixed my comment. Thanks!

[@ronyultsnto90]

I did not see when they put the filters machines to keep the water clear and clean

[@marianoaran]

Ronyultsnto this was not filmed in detail, but you can see at 3:30 a container (to the right) that will be placed where it is, and will hold a pump that moves water from the main pond up to the first waterfall shown at 1:35. Filtering is done by all the microorganisms 🦠 living between the river pebbles. There is also a bag placed inside that second container that has little balls with tiny holes for bacteria to live. Another important factor for keeping water clean is constant water circulation, waterfalls that brake water tension at the surface facilitating gas exchange and plants (lots of them).

[@slmusic9935]

Hi could I ask how mush this cost??

[@marianoaran]

Hi SL, cost is very relative depending on where you live and the availability of materials and cost of labour in your area. Where do you live?

[@slmusic9935]

Mariano Aran Thanks for the reply. I live in Adelaide SA

[@marianoaran]

I'm in Sunshine Coast, so no sure what providers you have around your area. This is the company that helped me build it www.waterscapesaustralia.com.au/ - Here in AU, not sure if you can build a small pond like this one for less than 5~7K (DIY) and most probably around 10~15K if you get a landscaper to do everything for you.

[@ahmadaqil6592]

are you use geomembrane

[@marianoaran]

Yes, what you see @1:36 is geomembrane

[@bullseye7690]

filter?

[@marianoaran]

It has a biological filter. You can see it @9:18 - It's a bag with balls that house beneficial bacteria :-)

[@uncleknife9887]

Beautiful, however, I would have gone a bit deeper...

[@marianoaran]

Thank you! :) Not allowed in Australia, otherwise I would have had to fence it.

[@aravinthr1507]

How come there is continuous flow of water?

[@marianoaran]

A pump picks up the water from the lowest part of the pond and pumps it up to the 1st waterfall. All water is constantly being circulated. Runs with solar power.

[@bmzaron713]

make it bigger

[@marianoaran]

Brian Z - aha

[@charmnGUY]

All I see is rocks, such a small rock pond

[@marianoaran]

It was very big for the fishes that went in there compared to the fish tank they were living in at that stage, but not as big as their natural habitat... Maybe the shrimp didn't really realise if it was big or small for them... I guess it's all relative :) You can see underwater life that started living there after a while in this other video :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIC9i2Oihs2mi5I

[@gabrielmorillo6139]

my cat and dog ate all my koi

[@marianoaran]

Sorry to hear that mate. We found smaller fish with heaps of places to hide is a better option in terms of predators. Even Goldfish are a tad big and slow.

[@andreipanait5379]

Rip

[@hoxsox139]

add a catfish

[@marianoaran]

HoxSox Already there... check video from Oct 2017 :)

[@hoxsox139]

👍

[@LGSDoktoru]

Not good Very good

[@marianoaran]

Thank you! :)