Are you interested in having a backyard or garden fish pond or water garden for your San Diego home or business? A fish pond can help enhance a garden and becomes a focal and talking point for guests to your garden. However, never think that a backyard fish pond is a set-and-forget feature – you will always be concerned with aerating your backyard fish pond water. Fish require an environment that mirrors their natural habitat, say, a river. Rivers run into the sea and are regularly replenished by clean rainwater. This natural course of events, coupled with the movement of the water over rocks and other obstacles keeps the fish’s environment advantageous to the fish. You cannot do the same, but you can emulate nature. If you fail to do this, your fish will become sick with diseases that a novice will not notice and die.

Backyard Fish Pond Water Tips

The main thing that fish need is clean, oxygenated water. So, how do you manage that? Well, the first thing to realize is that pond fish do not require as much oxygenated water in the winter as in the summer, because fish are semi-dormant in the winter. However, warm water is not capable of holding as much oxygen as cold water, so you genuinely need a good aeration system in the summer. Therefore, you need to set up some sort of effective fish pond water aeration system. This aeration system will be linked closely with your pond filtration device. The front line apparatus for oxygenating your backyard fish pond water is the pond pump. In fact, you may even need two pond pumps. Oxygen can be sucked out of your pond water by rotting vegetation and algae, so extricating these will help aerate your pond water. Therefore, you should use a general pond pump that will allow pond debris to pass through its impeller blades. The pump will drive the water to your pond filter in order to remove it. The water will then return to the pond. If you let it fall from step to step on its way back, the water will be polished and aerated when it arrives home in the pond. Another measure you can take is to install a pond fountain. However, you will almost certainly need a different pump, because the filtration pump allows pond vegetation debris through, which would clog the jets of the pond fountain. The water from the fountain will oxygenate the pond when it falls back to the surface. If you are interested in having your own Backyard Fish Pond, or need help with your existing pond, contact us at  (858) 583-4105 or email info@pacificdreamscapes.com

[metaslider id=10375] Building backyard ponds is a job for experienced San Diego Pond Builders. San Diego Ponds generally include aquatic plants and live fish, so there can be a delicate ecosystem. These ecosystems need maintenance regularly. As San Diego Pond Builders in business since 1998, Pacific Dreamscapes can help transform open or unused space in your yard into a tranquil pond of soothing elegance.

Why You Need Professional San Diego Pond Builders

The owner of our pond installation team has studied filtration and aquatic ecology for years. We incorporate this scientific knowledge into our landscape water features. And we can also provide pond maintenance to keep your water crystal clear and fish healthy and robust. There’s more to creating backyard ponds than digging a hole, putting down a rubber liner, adding water and plugging in a pump. Proper filtration is essential. Without it, garden ponds begin to grow algae, which cut off oxygen needed for healthy koi and other fish. The fish then die off, and that is when most of these ponds are abandoned. Our ponds have Aquascape filters. Instead of having a huge, loud pump 20 feet away from the pond, or right below the water in clear sight, this company has developed a skimmer that is built along the outside perimeter. The pump is seated at the bottom of the skimmer so that it sucks water from the pond through the skimmer opening, through a filter basin and into the pump, which then pushes the water up to the pond waterfall. Typical pond filters sift out small debris, but it only takes a couple of old leaves to clog the system. The line has to be cleaned every few days, or the water line is blocked. Going bigger and more complex isn’t always the answer, either. It is an energy zapper and results in a tangle of tubing, return lines and wires that take away from the natural beauty you seek. Our San Diego Pond Builders will custom design water features such as pond waterfalls and fountains that blend into your yard as if nature itself created it. Every water feature we build is unique. We place each boulder and rock with the idea that it should look natural, and not man made. If you have a need for a San Diego Pond Builder for your home or business location, Contact us for an on-site appointment: estimates@pacificdreamscapes.com or 858-583-4105