Why every pond should have a waterfall
Your backyard waterfalls and ponds, synthetic rock waterfalls and ponds or streams made to look like real rock using fiberglass resin makes it possible to build your garden waterfalls and ponds in minutes
Water contains oxygen and when the water in a pond is circulated this oxygen is made available for the fish, plants and bacteria that clean the pond water. These bacteria live in the pond biofilter and on all pond surfaces such as stones, logs, plant material and so on.
This oxygen is used up by the bacteria and fish and so it needs to be replaced.
The easiest and cheapest way to add oxygen to flowing water is to spray it using a fountain attachemnt to your pump or let the water fall down a waterfall or stream. The act of falling allows water to come into good contact with air and the oxygen is extracted this way.
In summer it is especially important to aerate the waterfall as much as possible
How To Select Your Garden Pond & Waterfall Pump With Total Confidence Choosing a pond pump to run your waterfall and pond filter can be a bit tricky. The wrong choice can be costly and disappointing. Make sure your pond pump runs 24/7 to keep your pond filter working
Fiberglass waterfalls and ponds should suit the size of the location. Remember not too high is the right approach for almost all fiberglass waterfalls. Soothing sound not roaring torrents is the aim of any waterfall. Waterfalls and ponds remove stress from every day life.
This is an example from a range of waterfalls and ponds. It is part of a modular stream or waterfall approach - select one or more sections to complete a fiberglass waterfall or a garden pond water fall of your choice. Building fiberglass home waterfalls has never been so easy. Fiberglass backyard waterfalls, pond ideas are now many and varied.
Backyard ponds and waterfalls are almost essential for the well being of your koi pond or fish pond.
Waterfall filters can be used to aid bacterial purification of circulating pond water.
This is how to choose your garden waterfalls and ponds:
Keep garden waterfalls and ponds in proportion to the garden and the waterfall specifically to the pond dimensions. A small pond would benefit from a slightly inclined and short garden waterfall.
Garden waterfalls and ponds - think carefully about flow required. If you want large volume flows down garden waterfalls or streams then you will need to select your pump carefully. Get your FREE excel calculator above.
For every inch of waterfall lip width allow 250 litres per hour of pond water flow down the garden waterfall (this is about 50 gallons per hour - see above table).
Height of garden waterfalls and ponds: do not make them too high. For most small garden ponds (up to say 500 litres or 120 gallons) garden waterfalls 18 or 50cm above the pond surface is good enough.
Garden waterfalls and ponds often need to run 24 hours per day. If you want to switch off garden waterfalls at night then a second pump must be installed in the pond to run the bio-filter which keeps the fish alive.
Make life easy on yourself and consider not how to build a waterfall but how to buy the best type of synthetic rock waterfalls and ponds choose from one of the many preformed garden waterfalls and ponds available and made from fibreglass and designed to look like a real rock outcrop or stream. These synthetic rock waterfalls are able to be matched to ponds in the same colours and rock designs.
Let's summarise waterfall design:
A waterfall design must work to please the owner
A waterfall design should be soothing and not irritating
A waterfall design should match the pond
A waterfall design should ideally be low or at least optimised cost.
A waterfall design should allow a diy installation for most cases.
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Most of the waterfalls below are available in different colours to suit your surroundings. By clicking on a link below you will be able to see a full scale picture of the relevant waterfall in addition to price.
