Hello,
This morning I found my pond had sprung a leak, and now has levelled off at about a foot deep. Its a pond with a liner sunk into the patio, I'm guessing the liner has punctured / broken down as its a fairly old construction (apparently the patio was put in about 15 years ago, and the pond at the same time). I've got in there koi, goldfish, orfe and some tench. They were doing ok this morning but I think I need to get them out ASAP!
Redoing the liner is going to be a long job, I will need to remove paving all the way round and there is also a rock waterfall (cememted together) at one end that will need dismantling. In the short term I have a large roof box from my car (the hinges have broken so no longer in use) which is a similar size to the pond but not as deep.
There isn't much water in the pond to transfer into the temporary pond, but the roof box has collected a fair amount of rainwater. Will I be ok using this rain water and topping it up with pond water? Being winter there is a fair amount of sediment in the bottom of the pond which I don't want to disturb and also the reason I want to get the fish out as soon as I can. I'll hopefully be able to move the pump from the pond into the roof box if the cable will stretch.
How does this set up sound? I can get measurements for the roof box this evening if that would help. How long do you think the fish will be ok for in the temporary set up?
Thanks for any help
This morning I found my pond had sprung a leak, and now has levelled off at about a foot deep. Its a pond with a liner sunk into the patio, I'm guessing the liner has punctured / broken down as its a fairly old construction (apparently the patio was put in about 15 years ago, and the pond at the same time). I've got in there koi, goldfish, orfe and some tench. They were doing ok this morning but I think I need to get them out ASAP!
Redoing the liner is going to be a long job, I will need to remove paving all the way round and there is also a rock waterfall (cememted together) at one end that will need dismantling. In the short term I have a large roof box from my car (the hinges have broken so no longer in use) which is a similar size to the pond but not as deep.
There isn't much water in the pond to transfer into the temporary pond, but the roof box has collected a fair amount of rainwater. Will I be ok using this rain water and topping it up with pond water? Being winter there is a fair amount of sediment in the bottom of the pond which I don't want to disturb and also the reason I want to get the fish out as soon as I can. I'll hopefully be able to move the pump from the pond into the roof box if the cable will stretch.
How does this set up sound? I can get measurements for the roof box this evening if that would help. How long do you think the fish will be ok for in the temporary set up?
Thanks for any help