OT: Backyard pond with Aquarium type "window"? Options

[Mueller]

Okay, I built an in-ground pond a few years ago...guess it's a few hundred gallons...it is surrounded by 2500 pounds of flagstone....after killing all 40+ goldfish last year*, I've let the pond dry up and now it's a trip hazard (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

Now I'd like to rebuild it with a new and better pump and filter. But instead of keeping it in-gound, I'd like to raise it up and make a viewing window at least a foot or so from the ground level..basicly a one-window aquarium.

Anyone have experiance with making something similar?
Should I plexiglass or tempered glass? What about sealing it to the rest of the pond walls?


*too much tap water into it when I drained it to clean it out some....poor fish (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

[Brian Mifsud]

Mike,

Sunlight will degrade plastic over time. I'd go with the tempered glass, and just quit mowing the lawn (put in iceplant or "Italian Grass" (rocks......))


I put in a pond this summer (160 gallons) using a rigid liner, (and 4 truckloads of rock donated by our nearby mountains.....) The algae seems to "bloom" and diminish on and off. All the books say to use a U.V. filter which will sterilize and kill everything that flows by (like algae). I'm losing fish right now to "Ich"... it's pretty gross, when chunks of them rot off. The Salt treatment seems to have worked.

Have fun.