This is a great link...anyone considering an indoor pond should read it.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/cav1i1/pondD...fo/diy-pond.htm

I will be writing and posting a DIY article on my timber ponds in the near future.

Great article! Makes me want to go out and build an indoor pond right now! Don't know where I would put it though. I guess I could turn a whole room into an aquarium. :D

Stupid question though..

Is it difficult to see the fish? Do you have viewing windows?

In a liner tank such as mine and the tank in the article their are no windows. In ponds constructed of wood/fiberglass/epoxy you can easily set a glass or acrylic window into place.

Seeing the fishes in a "windowless" pond is definately differant but in ponds 6' or longer you have enough "angle" to enjoy the fish.

I use a light substrate and the fishes show up just fine.

Hmm... having that angle does help. Would definitely be interesting to try. I'm going to have to let my wife get used to the number of tanks we have in our small house we are renting right now, haha! I brought up the idea of a pond and she said.. "We already have 500 fish, why more?" LoL :lol: . She'll come around... she always does. ^_^ We already have a 10 gallon, 29 gallon, and 40 gallon. Of course that may not seem like a lot, but it's definitely something for this house. I couldn't fit a 4ft tank anywhere. I'd love to have a 75/90 gallon tank some day, since it's only going to take up a foot more in length over my 40 gallon. I love the 18" wide tanks though. What type of bracing do you have for your floors?

No bracing is required for most tanks. The load is spread over such a wide area that their is no more weight per sq.ft. than a fully stocked fridge. My ponds are in a room with a concrete floor that I built onto the house.

Very nice. I definitely want to have a fish room when we build our house, complete with concrete floor, sturdy foundation, built-in-wall tanks, indoor ponds, etc. I'll definitely use your ideas when creating my own. Good to know that the floor will hold it, though.

What do you do if you have to move for some reason?

It was a couple of years ago I was on vacation in the dominican republic and I saw somebody had made a pond in a refrigerator, that thing was awesome.

That would be interesting.. a refridgerator aquarium.

I guess if you used heavy duty deck screws you could always break it down and find some place to dump 600 gallons of water.

The guy actually layed the fridge down and removed the doors and added the decorations.If you have the room and the fridge its actually not a bad idea. Here in NY you see refrigerator in the street all the time. I have no room in my apartment though.

Hahaha! You'd use a refridgerator off the street? :o There's no telling where it has been! :lol:

Expensive aquarium if you ask me. Unless you have them on the streets in your area, of course. :lol:

Well I would'nt advise building one in a rental property. If you decided to sell you would either leave it up as a selling point (depending on how nice it is) or you would drain it, fold up the liner, remove the sides, and awaaaayyyy you go! :D

I could take a pond like the one featured here apart in about 2 hours after it was drained.

That's pretty cool, obviously not something I would consider building until I determine where I want to live the rest of my life. (and have lots of extra cash sitting around)

I'm sure your fish are very happy and it must be lots of fun! :D Enjoy!


We have an extra refridgerator out in the barn that is not plugged in. hmmm . . . I wouldn't really do that. It would be funny, though. I guess you could pull out all the shelves and it would probably be easy to heat since its so insulated. Of course, you would need to leave the ice maker so that your fish can make martinis and mixed drinks while you're not home!! :lol:

The pond featured in the article could be built for $300 not counting filtration. That' dirt cheap. I built my first pond just for a "grow out" for Midas, Green Terror, and Oscar fry. It was outside and I put the fry in the pond through the summer and sold them in the fall. They were easily twice as large as fry of abouut the same age that were kept indoors in a 75.

I'm actually not too crazy about that one... now building a pond/river into the floor where the river ran through several rooms, and had a waterfall at the beginning, that would be COOL! Not very feasible, but cool none the less.