JamesL Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 My wife has always wanted some type of water feature in the front of our property. In the back we have gone through various iterations of ponds. After talks and consultations we had decided to do a disappearing stream. Partly because raccoons had fished out the ponds in the back, and partly because we have this great natural hill/slope up front. Here are a few pictures of the process we (the royal we) went through. Not all the way finished yet, but finished enough to share In the beginning there was vast wilderness: This is what is takes to make the stream: We had dug in a bunch of places looking for a good start/end spot. The overall design changed slightly as I laid out the liner: And then the design changed after renting a jackhammer to remove some large lime stone to fit the 3'x3' box at the end (had to get rid of one of the planned waterfalls): After a whole day of work on it Saturday, this is the somewhat finished product. All of the side rock was collected from our property. The fountain rocks and the small river rocks were purchased: Close-up of the fountain overflow: So that has been my week+ of "fun". More to do on it. Need to get permanent electricity out to it, we want to slope the ending rock down more, add lighting, and then plant landscaping around it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 That's so cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifuentes31 Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 FREAKIN AWESOME BUD!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+Grog Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Relax and give your back a break. I know from experience how rock work can tear a back up. Looks heavy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Very cool. I have thought of building a large goldfish tank and then having a waterfall to a stream running around the yard. But never enough to actually build it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 That's awesome! You throwing any goldfish in there to eat mosquito larvae? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Thanks y'all! BTW, the time span between picture #4 and #5 was a single day. I was determined to get this thing done. That's awesome! You throwing any goldfish in there to eat mosquito larvae? I hadn't planend on it, as I didn't want to invite the raccoons up to it. From what I had heard they won't lay eggs in moving water. But if I am wrong, I might get some mosquito fish to toss in there, nothing flashy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 You could also do another type of Cold water fish that stay small like zebra danios, or White Cloud Mountain minnows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Figured I would post some recent pictures of it. I added some plants from the back water feature (which I tore apart and re-did), and my wife has been busy landscaping around it. Overall views: Waterfall view: Serious bunny view: In terms of life, we have heard a few frogs in it .. and the other day I saw this big black ball in the upper "pond" section before the waterfall. I thought it was some leaves, so I went to scoop it out and it was all jelly like ... then the black things separated out into a ton of tadpoles. Now we know what the frogs were singing about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 bow chicka bow wowwww Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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