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    My portable 250 gallon cedar pond build

    That's the Late Great Pogo Mau (Pogo Mau on FaceBook) he was my constant companion for 13 years. I was the first human he ever saw or smelled, and I was the last. I miss him greatly....
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    My portable 250 gallon cedar pond build

    A good friend that lives about 50 miles from my shop asked me to build her one like mine. She's supplying the liner . It needed to be built, then disassembled for transport to her house, where she has a pad prepared just for the pond. I'll go out to her place in two weeks and install it. 63"L x...
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    Pond Build Question

    Sufficient water flow can keep enough area open to assure proper oxygenation in an Iced over pond. This is my backyard pond in December 2008. 4,400gph flow at the head. Three days later, there was ice 8 inches thick across the pond, but where the water entered was ice free about a foot around it...
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    Pond Build Question

    Odd thing that. I have a floating horse trough deicer in mine. Now granted my pond is only 250 gallons, but it sits wholly above ground. The heat element usually ends up under the outflow of one of the fountains, and that probably has something to do with the fact that even when temps here...
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    My portable 250 gallon cedar pond build

    EPDM pond liner, I've had preforms crack on me after a few years....
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    My portable 250 gallon cedar pond build

    This was the pond I gave up when we sold the house
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