Re: NANFA-- Above ground pond

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:47:43 -0500

I think above ground onds are better for sub tropical and tropical
species--the below ground ponds stay cold if you don't get a hot summer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irate Mormon" <archimedes_at_bayspringstel.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Above ground pond

> After sitting on this pond liner for about two years, I have reached the
> conclusion that if I hold out until I have time to DIG a really nice pond
(or
> two, as I had planned), the the liner will have long since disintegrated
into
> dust. So, my plan is to build an above ground pond. The liner is about
12' by
> 30'. The idea is to build a "box" out of landscape timbers, 2 feet high
and 8'
> by 24' in the ground plane. The long sides will be constructed by
overlapping
> the timbers 50%, and the whole deal will be held together by rebar driven
> through holes drilled in the timbers, and maybe 2 feet into the ground.
Quick
> and easy.
>
> Anybody done this before? What are your suggestions?
>
>
> --Irate
>
> "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no
constitution,
> no law, no court can save it."

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