Fun fact: Cattail is also a great survival ressource. The roots are starchy and available even in winter, the top is full of tinder material, the stem can be used for basket weaving. PS: The fish dome is just epic. Great work
Great channel and projects my friend. I'm similarly a giant fan of Andrew Camarata. Youre much more personable and have some cool ambitious builds. Inspiring! Thanks!!
It would be great to see more regarding your pond. I've been considering putting part of that giant vinyl pool liner to use and a system like you have here for emulating natural filtering processes is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing your very impressive setup! Do you leave the heat tape for the submerged pipes turned on all winter?
I've done a few pond videos, unfortunately we built most of it before I was really doing RUclips stuff. The pump and pipes get turned off for the winter. The fish just kind of hang out at the bottom and dont' do much, we do have a small heater and bubbler to keep an air space open in the ice. The buried pipes have heat tape, although I'm pretty sure there's a leak in one of them. When we dig it up and re-do the swamp I'm going to replace some of the plumbing so it's aboveground and easier to maintain.
I have a doubt. Can I use broken terracotta roof tiles as the biological medium in the bog filter instead of the small rocks? The tiles are from a 50 or so year old house and are properly weathered. Will it release undesirable things to the water?
I'm not sure, we've tried to avoid having limestone and cement *in* the pond, since it can leach stuff into the water. We've used clay bricks and terracotta flowerpots in the pond as fish shelters and landscaping and it hasn't seemed to hurt anything. We did notice that the more natural bricks tend to crumble and decay if submerged for a long time.
Ouch, they seem to be super random which areas get them. Sometimes one neighborhood will have huge hail and a mile away has nothing. And then of course a dozen roofers from Texas call and say they can scam your insurance out of free money since there was hail within 100 miles 😂
Yep! We have a few limestone chunks with fossils, they're pretty cool. Some of them we found right in the yard when we were digging the hole for the pond (There's an old limestone building foundation there).
@@saveitforparts So cool! I'd die to have a fossil in my hand for real! In this part of the world where I live, there is no limestones or other fossil bearing rocks that I know of. I'm surrounded with laterite stones.
@@realemonful it's basically negative pressure of the air bubble in the dome 'sucking' in the water or acting like a spring attached to the water and the top of the dome. I hope you understand, I used google translate. You can also recreate that visually by putting a tea light into a plate filled with a little bit of water/juice (better visual), lighting up the tea light, putting a glas above it so it goes out and the air inside build up negative pressure and sucks the water in - www.experimentis.de/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/304Kerzenaufzug500-150x150.jpg Because of the fact, that water is not compressible it stays in the dome being held up by negative pressure of the air bubble.
It has to be at least 24" deep to keep the fish in it all winter (around here at least). Ours is more like 36" deep, that keeps it from fully freezing and gives the fish a place to not-quite-hibernate at the bottom.
The way the fish like being in the water dome actually warms my heart. I bet it's really fun.
Same. Hugs from bohemian forest
They seem to really enjoy the warmth. I need to get the dome re-installed for summer, it's finally getting past freezing in Minnesota!
Fun fact: Cattail is also a great survival ressource. The roots are starchy and available even in winter, the top is full of tinder material, the stem can be used for basket weaving. PS: The fish dome is just epic. Great work
very high quality catertainment!
That is a really nice garden!
pretty like that Microsoft Paint drawing of the set up plan for the pond !!
3:06 would be the perfect intro: "Welcome to the save it for parts channel!"
Ha, wish I'd thought of that at the time!
3:09 - Unbothered. Moisturised. Happy. In his lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Love the dome
I like your videos. Always something interesting going on.
Thanks! Sometimes there's too much going on 😂
The thumbnail got me, the video got me to subscribe!
Great channel and projects my friend. I'm similarly a giant fan of Andrew Camarata. Youre much more personable and have some cool ambitious builds. Inspiring! Thanks!!
Fascinating! thx for sharing!
That’s a lot of work!
super nice pond
Very nice pond😎😎
It would be great to see more regarding your pond. I've been considering putting part of that giant vinyl pool liner to use and a system like you have here for emulating natural filtering processes is right up my alley.
Thanks for sharing your very impressive setup!
Do you leave the heat tape for the submerged pipes turned on all winter?
I've done a few pond videos, unfortunately we built most of it before I was really doing RUclips stuff.
The pump and pipes get turned off for the winter. The fish just kind of hang out at the bottom and dont' do much, we do have a small heater and bubbler to keep an air space open in the ice. The buried pipes have heat tape, although I'm pretty sure there's a leak in one of them. When we dig it up and re-do the swamp I'm going to replace some of the plumbing so it's aboveground and easier to maintain.
More gardening please
Hello from Wisconsin neighbor! I have been thinking about a making a pond from a big plastic tank I have but it sure looks like a lot of work 😹
It's a lot of work, but it sure is fun! The local wildlife love it, we get tons of birds and critters. The goldfish are also fun to watch.
wife says I cant have a fish pond, so i guess ill just have to live vicariously
Dear Saint Paul, I am a raccoon. My name is Rocky. Please quit teasing me with that Crystal Dome. Just give me the fish. Now.
I have a doubt. Can I use broken terracotta roof tiles as the biological medium in the bog filter instead of the small rocks? The tiles are from a 50 or so year old house and are properly weathered. Will it release undesirable things to the water?
I'm not sure, we've tried to avoid having limestone and cement *in* the pond, since it can leach stuff into the water. We've used clay bricks and terracotta flowerpots in the pond as fish shelters and landscaping and it hasn't seemed to hurt anything. We did notice that the more natural bricks tend to crumble and decay if submerged for a long time.
Interesting. Did you eat the cattail roots?
I tried some, but it wasn't really the right season to get much out of them. I have a video on it here: ruclips.net/video/TVJMbT47bcw/видео.html
Forbidden corndogs.
I actually did a corndog video back when I was in the midst of this project! ruclips.net/video/TVJMbT47bcw/видео.html
we actually had 3 hailstorms last year, both my cars and house got damaged
Ouch, they seem to be super random which areas get them. Sometimes one neighborhood will have huge hail and a mile away has nothing. And then of course a dozen roofers from Texas call and say they can scam your insurance out of free money since there was hail within 100 miles 😂
@@saveitforparts that's a fact. I just stopped answering my door
Did one of the cats ever fall in?
Not yet. They've tried to touch the fish but haven't actually gone in.
First i see (shivling) behind you but than its not
At 5:05, is that fossils in the rock?
Yep! We have a few limestone chunks with fossils, they're pretty cool. Some of them we found right in the yard when we were digging the hole for the pond (There's an old limestone building foundation there).
@@saveitforparts So cool! I'd die to have a fossil in my hand for real! In this part of the world where I live, there is no limestones or other fossil bearing rocks that I know of. I'm surrounded with laterite stones.
corn dog plants
I actually did a corndog video back when I was in the midst of this project! ruclips.net/video/TVJMbT47bcw/видео.html
I don't remember if you explained that but how in the world does the water stay in that dome? I mean, physically that's impossible lol
Never mind, I just tried it and I'm flabbergasted and blown away. It does work! lol
@@realemonful it's basically negative pressure of the air bubble in the dome 'sucking' in the water or acting like a spring attached to the water and the top of the dome. I hope you understand, I used google translate. You can also recreate that visually by putting a tea light into a plate filled with a little bit of water/juice (better visual), lighting up the tea light, putting a glas above it so it goes out and the air inside build up negative pressure and sucks the water in - www.experimentis.de/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/304Kerzenaufzug500-150x150.jpg
Because of the fact, that water is not compressible it stays in the dome being held up by negative pressure of the air bubble.
Eat the cattails they are edible from top to bottom.
Deepest mini pond ever.
It has to be at least 24" deep to keep the fish in it all winter (around here at least). Ours is more like 36" deep, that keeps it from fully freezing and gives the fish a place to not-quite-hibernate at the bottom.