Temporary 'pond' whilst pond is repaired...

[old'uns]

Pond in situ when house purchased 2015, concrete construction, 10,000 litres 'ish.
Lost a fair bit of water during the Hot period, assumed evaporation but now appears level still dropping so needs emptying and hopefully repairing.
Lost around 3-4000 litres over 2 weeks so not anything I can leave.
Approx 35-40 , mainly Goldfish, a large Koi and a handful of medium sized.

Any one used a paddling pool short term, I know it's risky but time is short to sort out anything more substantial

[Boosted LS1]

Can't see a problem with that. Fill it with a lot of your pond water and use a couple of wheelie bins for filtration ot tap into your existing filtration. Add some shade for say half of the new pond as the sun will heat the sides as well as the surface.

[paintman]

Once you've removed the fish & drained the pool would sand on the concrete & a rubber pool liner laid on the sand be the simplest option?

[old'uns]

cheers guys.
current thinking was an IBC and cut the top off but none locally without having my pants pulled down!

so, next best option is 2 smaller pools so worst case we dont lose the lot.

pond is all sort of shapes, depths, walled off across so difficult for a liner.

[2 GKC]

We did this and bought a rectangular aluminium horse trough to keep them in. They were in there weeks with no problem.

[anonymous-user]

I did this a few years. Go to discount leisure products and buy a pool off there and stock up on ammonia and nitrite lock chemicals along with chlorine remover. Be handy to have a few Evolution aqua pond bombs ready as well. Test the water every day to make sure levels are good.

[vaud]

old'uns said:

cheers guys.
current thinking was an IBC and cut the top off but none locally without having my pants pulled down!

so, next best option is 2 smaller pools so worst case we dont lose the lot.

pond is all sort of shapes, depths, walled off across so difficult for a liner.

Look for an IBC on facebook marketplace. Water only ones (used) seem to go quite cheap.

[Kinky]

I'd volunteer my pond but sadly you're a few hundred miles away.

Fingers crossed for you. Also worth asking your local aquatic shop. They may have some creative solutions

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

Apart from "Staffs", where abouts in the county are you?

[ecs]

When we had our swimming pool renovated, the guys put all 45m^3 of water in several large paddling pools in our garden. Don't see why you couldn't do the same with pond water.

[old'uns]

Cannock

Good call on Faceache...picking up an IBC tomorrow on way back from Liverpool in Abbotts Bromley

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

old'uns said:

Cannock

Good call on Faceache...picking up an IBC tomorrow on way back from Liverpool in Abbotts Bromley

If it doesn't come off let me know and I can probably sort you out with one.

[old'uns]

Sorted thanks....although I should have taken some stuff out the van first!
Transit Connect...it will fit in there ...just!
Had to leave steps at farm then go back for them.


Cut the 2 top corners to get it out then looked at the house and thought 'oh ste'....roof being started next week so scaffolding all the way round!
Had to chop top off, onto scaffolding then walk it round.

[old'uns]

Getting there slowly....I reckon around a tonne of gravel to come out to get to the base, still mulling over which direction to go re any repairs.
Head count at 43, we assumed we had around 32.



White rectangle is waste pipe filtration, going back in where it was under the gravel but slightly smaller due to less gravel returning to pond and we have a gravity filter we added

[anonymous-user]

old'uns said:

Getting there slowly....I reckon around a tonne of gravel to come out to get to the base, still mulling over which direction to go re any repairs.
Head count at 43, we assumed we had around 32.



White rectangle is waste pipe filtration, going back in where it was under the gravel but slightly smaller due to less gravel returning to pond and we have a gravity filter we added

Are you doing a bottom drain?

[old'uns]

No, just need to check all over the pond so everything out to inspect the structure now we've gone this far

[anonymous-user]

old'uns said:

No, just need to check all over the pond so everything out to inspect the structure now we've gone this far

Ah ok, it's just you mentioned you had a gravity filter instead of a pump fed filter.

[old'uns]

Update time, completely forgot this....

Gravel removed last w/e, bottom checked, no obvious damage.
Going with 1 layer of bricks on the 'dam" and backfill started.
This w/e is painting time....
Anyone need a Seal or Penguin re-homing



Not all went smoothly though....lost 8 of the largest Fish, numpty here assumed they'd be okay for a day without a pump in the tank...resulting in a lack of Oxygen.
Couple of sleepless nights having lost the remaining 60cm Koi from when we moved in.
Pump to splash water fitted, half the water removed and it appears to have stabilised the deaths

[anonymous-user]

Did you get some ammonia and nitrite lock and dechlorinator as I mentioned earlier on?

[old'uns]

No, it was all last minute and the water in the IBC was from the pond so maybe I was assuming no issue.
In 7 years we've not lost any fish to water issues, Heron yes,so I guess I'm still new to this?