How Do You Build Concrete Fish Ponds?
Concrete needs a little special care when used to make fish ponds, due to the possibility of lime leaching into your pond water. Concrete is easy to shape and maintain but requires reinforcement on the sides of the pond while it is drying. Your concrete fish pond walls must be thick enough to prevent cracking during repeated spring and fall thaws. Make your concrete pond deep enough to prevent herons and raccoons from using it as their private sushi bar. Photograph your pond site from the house, the street, the rear end of the yard and from any window that overlooks it. Use the photos to decide where the pond will have the most visual impact. Check placement of any existing trees or shrubs that might blow debris into your pond. It is especially important to locate your pond away from pine trees, as the needles will pass through your filter and get into your pump housing. Contact all local utility companies and ask them to mark locations of any underground lines running through your pro
