How to Create a Bubbler Water Feature

[@falconfeathers9454]

What a great idea. I began 32 years ago with just a 4 foot pond liner with limestone rocks full of holes. I used a very small pump and fed a network of hose lines all through the limestone taking advantage of their natural holes. The next 2 years I extended it. It has run, non-stop for 30 years. My land was naturally perfect. The top is level, but then there is a drop about 4 feet. I did 2 small ponds joined but a foot higher. The top I designed a short stream using about 6 ft long and 4 ft. wide pond liner intentionally shallow ( I call it bum deep to a robin) with limestone and moss. This is where the hummingbirds gather, and goldfinch, cardinals, scarlet tanager, evening grossbeak, chickadees, woodpeckers, and blue jay. Then a "middle" pond again about 8 feet wide but only between 6 inches to a foot in depth. I actually have crystal clear water and seldom have to add especially with rain. The fiberglass pond at the bottom has a rigid irregular edge, and the front I set very slightly lower. The great advantage is you just top up with water for a short time, and the recirculating pump clears off the entire surface of the stream, waterfalls and 2 ponds.Great advantage to the ponds that are simply holes in the ground that cannot clear. For 30 years it has naturalized. Wild Ontario orchids, wild ginger, English lavender, carpet of royal blue lobelia, blue violets, 4 foot ostrich ferns with bright red monarda (bee balm a hummingbird and butterfly favourite). I have toads, frogs, I add "feeder goldfish about 10 cents each for mosquito control, sometimes koi, or tropical red swordtails. Because the water is constantly bubbling and flowing, mosquitoes are seldom a problem.The liner is about 15 feet which allows it to cover the top slope, and then the stream liner hangs over the side into the middle pond. Because the middle pond liner is so huge, you never have leaks and can arrange limestone in layers with the clear 1/2 inch hoses.The middle pond is about a foot higher than the bottom pond, and so I hung the liner into the bottom pond about a foot down into it. I used rubber gloves, and cement. I molded cement and limestone along the edge, creating a six foot wide series of shallow waterfalls into to bottom pond. The bottom pond is only about 6 feet across with one recirculating pump. I live in Toronto where our weather can drop to minus 30, Celsius and soar to "feels like 42 Celsius. The pond runs non-stop, and because the water is moving constantly, I get ice all over the rocks, but water still flows all year. That is when I get deer for drinks.

[@not_today_satan_7]

Falcon Feathers pictures please

[@lizett8591]

Is the weight of the rocks on top of the bucket lid not too heavy? Also, to clean the pump do you not need to take the entire thing apart, rocks and all? I love the idea and I am trying to emulate it but would appreciate responses to my questions.

[@Birdie81364]

May I ask what pump you used? Thanks

[@barbbirdyard]

How do you keep it clean?

[@LB-ue9ts]

What is the name or how can I reference the heater component

[@Imwright720]

Next time I would suggest washing the lava rock.

[@ellenoconnor7776]

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