The Pond at Grizzly Acres

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Titan445

Looking pretty sweet Grizz.:

Thanks

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

Don't you think its a bit cruel to add a bear holding fish right where your poor fishies can see????

That is so awesome!!! How long did it actually take you as your pictures make it seem like only a weekend job..... Well done!

Its catch and release & I am more worried about my brother in-law then the bears.

It took about 6 month between last fall and this spring to actually get it up and running. The weather didn't help one bit either.

Originally Posted by Slyguy00

Looks awesome!

Originally Posted by Misses.ReefWars

Looks amazing grizz

Thank you.

Originally Posted by kien

there do appear to be a lot of bears in that pond.. poor fish..

And more to come as we can find the ones we want

[WarDog]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Its deep enough to keep the fish in the pond over winter just have to add a couple air diffusers, redirect the pumps to flow under 24' of water and add a couple electric floating heaters.

24 feet?!!! Wow, that's a lot deeper than it looks in the pictures! Lol.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by WarDog

24 feet?!!! Wow, that's a lot deeper than it looks in the pictures! Lol.

Silly fingers, should have been 24 "

[Stones]

Nice work as that is one sharp looking pond!

[reefme]

2' above ground is hard to say about winter.

[bauder1986]

Wow, havent been on here or out to your house in years! is this still up and running?

[jason604]

Very nice grizz!! I have a koi pond too and I think 24" May be a lil too shallow. 3-4 is more recommended for winter as they can just stay at the bottom n be warm without heaters. I have about 40 Kois ranging from 10"-30". As they get larger they will need the swimming room. From my experience I had to remove my center piece as the fishes would stress n dart into the center piece n ruin their face. I had many with scratches to facial deformation( mainly due to my neighbor tearing down the house n building new. The pounding on the ground rly startled them). As soon as I removed the centerpiece they absolutely loved the extra space. How do u manage without a net over the pond? Stupid raccoons always venture to my pond to either take baths on the waterfall n ruin the water or they try to go fishing. Man I rly love ur waterfall design and especially those Grizzlies haha. Just amazing work man!

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by bauder1986

Wow, havent been on here or out to your house in years! is this still up and running?

Yes its been awhile there Josh, the pond isnt running right now cause its WINTER. I actually drained it in the fall cause I am redoing a few things in the spring. All the fish are enjoying a nice warm winter in a large water tub in my pool room.

Originally Posted by jason604

Very nice grizz!! I have a koi pond too and I think 24" May be a lil too shallow. 3-4 is more recommended for winter as they can just stay at the bottom n be warm without heaters. I have about 40 Kois ranging from 10"-30". As they get larger they will need the swimming room. From my experience I had to remove my center piece as the fishes would stress n dart into the center piece n ruin their face. I had many with scratches to facial deformation( mainly due to my neighbor tearing down the house n building new. The pounding on the ground rly startled them). As soon as I removed the centerpiece they absolutely loved the extra space. How do u manage without a net over the pond? Stupid raccoons always venture to my pond to either take baths on the waterfall n ruin the water or they try to go fishing. Man I rly love ur waterfall design and especially those Grizzlies haha. Just amazing work man!

Thanks for the compliments much appreciated. I went to a pond specialist here in Alberta and they showed me how to keep the pond from freezing up in the winter for 24" dee, just have to have the water circulating from bottom to just under water level, add in a couple big air diffusers and a couple floating heater to keep an open spot for gas exchange. We dont have to worry about critters in our yard as we have 6 Huskies that keep them away.

[The Grizz]

After I got the new patio poured last summer / fall I built some of the railings, there is going to be a railing along the back side and open end of the pond as well.

[jason604]

Oh man the entrance with the grizz is epic haha. 6 huskies would deff do a great job of protecting ur backyard. That very same night of me posting about the raccoons they actually came in n ripped out my hose connection to my filter(there was teeth marks) so my pump was basically pumping water outside to the ground. Lucky my sis works early n alerted us when she saw it. There was only less than 6" left of water in the pond. My pond has a total water volume of around 1100-1200 gal so that's a ton of water spilled out. Very lucky my pump was dirty so it wasn't pumping at full strength.