Full Version: Stock Tank Pond?
I would really like a pond but don't have a fortune to do it. I was at my local TSC and got hit by an idea, stock tank! I live in a farming community so it will be relatively easy to get a large stock tank for free or cheap. Heck, my neighbor has a 350 gallon one that they not longer want! TSC sells stock tank heater/deicers for $25. So so far I have a total of $25, but what about a filter? Can I make one? How much does it cost to buy one? Could I use an old Jacuzzi filter? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Heya, I'm just setting up a new stock tank pond and finished my plans for a filter if it helps?
I don't have time to post pics of the plans right now but here goes a description LOL.
The outer casing is your good old everyday storage box, any size. On two sides the join to form a corner you need to cut in slits. Small enough so the fish cant get through big enough so poop can go through and ONLY on the TOP half of the sides.
Inside this box will go a much much smaller enough, it should just be slightly bigger then the pump you use, put plenty of slits around the sides on this one, it doesn't matter where. Wrap the box in a coarse sponge and place the filter inside packing filter floss around it. In the lid of this box you need to make a hole. Use a piece of tubing to make a long output tube for the pump, it must go past the height of the first larger storage box and fit snugly onto the pumps output.
Now back to the first storage box, fill it with some type of coarse media, pot scrubbers, ceramic media etc. Position the smaller box conatiner the pump into a corner diagonal opposite the two sides with slits cut in them. Then get the lid for the larger container and cut a hole exactly where the tube attached to the pumps output, the hole must be larger enough for the output tube to fit through. And Volia you have a pond pump.
Basically the water runs over the coarse media which catches all the gunk etc, then through the coarse sponge which prevents any gunk gettiung into the pump and clogging it, the filter floss performs the samduty then the nice clean water is pumped back into the pond.
The pump you use should turn the pond over at least once per hour.
Emma
I don't have time to post pics of the plans right now but here goes a description LOL.
The outer casing is your good old everyday storage box, any size. On two sides the join to form a corner you need to cut in slits. Small enough so the fish cant get through big enough so poop can go through and ONLY on the TOP half of the sides.
Inside this box will go a much much smaller enough, it should just be slightly bigger then the pump you use, put plenty of slits around the sides on this one, it doesn't matter where. Wrap the box in a coarse sponge and place the filter inside packing filter floss around it. In the lid of this box you need to make a hole. Use a piece of tubing to make a long output tube for the pump, it must go past the height of the first larger storage box and fit snugly onto the pumps output.
Now back to the first storage box, fill it with some type of coarse media, pot scrubbers, ceramic media etc. Position the smaller box conatiner the pump into a corner diagonal opposite the two sides with slits cut in them. Then get the lid for the larger container and cut a hole exactly where the tube attached to the pumps output, the hole must be larger enough for the output tube to fit through. And Volia you have a pond pump.
Basically the water runs over the coarse media which catches all the gunk etc, then through the coarse sponge which prevents any gunk gettiung into the pump and clogging it, the filter floss performs the samduty then the nice clean water is pumped back into the pond.
The pump you use should turn the pond over at least once per hour.
Emma
If you could post pics, that would be greatly appreciated. I got kind of lost reading the description, I'm more of a visual learner 
LOL I havnt actually built one yet, so pics arent possible, umm will do some sketches in paint.
Side view
Top View, the blue catchment area is filled with ceramic media
Side view
Top View, the blue catchment area is filled with ceramic media
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