Did My DIY Pond Survive? - 1 Year Later

🌿 Welcome back Fern Family! It's been a whole year since I tackled the DIY pond project. In this video, we're taking a deep dive to see how the pond has transformed! Are there any surprise visitors? What lessons have I learned along the way? Join me for a relaxing tour of my backyard oasis and see if my pond dreams became reality!
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00:00 - Recap Time!
00:50 - A Stringy Lesson
02:06 - Upgrading the Pond
05:32 - Where Did the Water Go?
07:37 - Hold Up
08:21 - How is This Pond Filtered?
10:45 - Time for Some Fish!
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[@CrunchyFern]

One year ago I’ve made my most labor intensive project yet, the DIY backyard garden pond. One year later I did run into some problems, but I managed to get everything back on track and the pond now looks better than ever. I hope you enjoy the video and let me know if you have any questions!

[@Gorkhali1997]

Can you please give me those all plants names @crunchyFern

[@NagatoUzu]

It's funny seeing people keep rainbow shiners. I catch them in the river here in Texas.

[@CrunchyFern]

Lucky you! They’re beautiful 🤩

[@ShortfinMako83]

This is reallly impressive! Maintaining a pond can be really difficult but you did it really well! I look forward to more updates on this pond and those beautiful rainbow shiners!

[@CrunchyFern]

Thank you so much! Happy you enjoy the video’s! :)

[@AuTheFuture]

Good job man I love it

[@CrunchyFern]

Thank you so much!

[@siuhu91]

Thank you so much for both pond videos! Gave me inspiration and great tips to build my own pond which I'm currently working on! :)

[@CrunchyFern]

Glad you like the video’s! Hope your pond turns out amazing! If you have any questions along the way you can send me a message on instagram! :)

[@turtleholic]

Great update. Glad the pond is still going strong!

[@CrunchyFern]

Thank you! :)

[@twunderaquatics1770]

This looks really good. ❤ I love this dyi filter system. I have a pond. A few things I've discovered are the king tut plant can be a challenge to remove. I had to treat mine as an annual cause of it dying in the winter. The root ball can be back breaking to remove. Thanks for the update ❤

[@CrunchyFern]

I really like them! But I can definitely see them being a challenge. Glad you like the video :)

[@obamiumdonut4793]

goldfish are good for algae but they eat other plants as well, so as they get bigger you may run into some problems. cool pond though

[@CrunchyFern]

Yeah I heard about that. We’ll see how it goes and hope they won’t cause too many problems haha

[@timsnelleman7757]

Cool shirt

[@CrunchyFern]

Thanks! 🐸

[@ricardocalderon9823]

Fill the bog filter with gravel and have the water pump from the bottom of the bog. Make aure to wash off the soil from the potted plants so the dirt doesnt go in your pond

[@CrunchyFern]

Yes that’s how it’s set up now! Thanks for confirming that’s the right way :)

[@nfearther2936]

Center pieces are essential in these types of ponds for the fish to act more naturally.

[@CrunchyFern]

I’m not entirely sure what you mean. Are you recommending I add a center piece fish?

[@nfearther2936]

No more like a large rock .

[@CrunchyFern]

Ah I see, I'll keep that in mind, but I'm not sure they actually need that. The lily and other plants create a few different sections in the pond serving a similar function.

[@nfearther2936]

@@CrunchyFern right. Keep it going 🫡

[@saulotamarez7846]

Hi, what size of pond liner did you use? And did you recommend?.

[@CrunchyFern]

I’m not sure what size I did use, I might have mentioned it in the original build video but I’m not sure. Anyway I definitely didn’t use the thinnest option. You can find save money in a lot of ways, but the liner is one of those things I would recommend you spend a bit more on.

[@fazebralersnoob3629]

Build a filter

[@CrunchyFern]

The pond has a filter! The intake bay functions as a pre filter and the top of the waterfall is a so called big filter.

[@Allucardy88]

what pump do you use ?

[@CrunchyFern]

Something small from superfish. One of those fountain pumps. Not sure which one.

[@harrysamuppet6804]

Blanket Answer by Cloverleaf will remove green blanket weed. Turns the pond milky for a few days. Dosent harm the fish or frogs & I can guarantee it will fix your problem. It completely disappears & stays away all summer. I dose it once a year. It’s the only product I have tried that works.

[@harrysamuppet6804]

PS your pond looks great

[@CrunchyFern]

I will keep that product in mind in case I keep running into problems with the algae, however it now seems like I managed to get rid of it already. PS thank you! :)

[@TheJake76]

5:14 wat to deep for colocasia

[@CrunchyFern]

Yeah it feels too deep but the label on the pot said it should be fine up to 40cm deep, which is how deep it is now. Should I move it? Maybe to the big filter or intake bay?