Pond design - what is a wetland filter?

What is a wetland filter? What is biomimicry and nature mimicry? Why diversity matters. Key features for your own pond design, and why you want them, and what they do. I guarantee at least one isn't on your radar yet.

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[GregWittstockThePondGuy]

Enjoy “Living the Aquascape Lifestyle!”

[canadiangemstones]

That is the most natural-looking manmade pond I’ve ever seen. Something that fine deserves trout!

[miqf]

I bet you were a fun client for this pond service, being so interested in all the elements, the science, and utility of all the parts.

[ogvoffgridventure]

This is rad! Congratulations on your pond build, I've been a daily swimmer since I was young and always dreamed of having a natural pool like this. Lots of work went into the design and execution. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I dream of putting a pond in my forest property, but I think it's outside of my budget.

[julie-annepineau]

Wow, quite the difference a year makes. Great explanations and great seeing so many of these plans coming into effect

[edibleacres]

Lots of great info here, thanks for making this!

[Dimora]

This is an outstanding run-through of your system. Very inspiring!

[mikearmando]

I am in the process of enlarging my fish pond which I had for the Past 30 years. The present pond is 2800 gallons. I am adding another 12, 000 Gals 4 1/2 feet deep. The cost of building a wetland filter is very expensive for me so I decided to build one myself. I purchased milk creates from a farm manufacturer. Each milkcreate tested by the manufacturer can hold 2800 lbs of weight. I reinforced the creates with PVC piping so it can hold an additional 1000 lbs of weight for a total of 3800 lbs. The rocks that will be on top of the creates are distributed evenly across all of the creates so they have plenty of support. I used a 6 inch ABS pipe 10' long and have a cleanout pipe which will come out of the wetland filter so it could be cleaned out with a sump pump. I will be using 3 layers of stone 3 - 6 inch, 2 - 3 inch, and the top surface stone will be 3/4 to 1 1/2 inch stone. I will have a small stream with a water fall flowing into the pond. The ABS pipe like the certerpide is cut out every 3 inches on both sides of the pipe with slits that are 2" x 5" for water flow. Hopefully this will work. It has the same principles.

[Spartanfred]

Wonderful video, thank you for this I have been new to permaculture and am very excited to see this for my new homestead.

[larryatkins]

That was one of the better videos I've seen on the subject. I really like it a lot, good job. Thanks!

[aliriarabelo]

Muito lindo, perfeito sistema de filtragem, só faltam muitas plantas, 👏👏👏👏

[gentlemood]

I like how you describe all of it. You understand how nature does it naturally and try to design the nature's way best you can. I like people that don't work against nature's ways. I'll be watching more. Shaquille O'neal pond get me into this. I'm now following Greg, The Pond Guy, Atlantis Water Gardens lol, TEAM Aquascape. I'll get my own pond with nice waterfalls soon.

[kingjeffishere]

I subscribed, mainly because I actually learned some good pond sht! Thanks!

[mikedonovan]

Recommend use of a lapel mic to dramatically improve voice / sound quality

[wizdomdropzastrology]

Very interesting video. I am curious how you might approach a flatland environment (i.e. the midwest U.S.) with a creek running through it if you were also say, avoiding plastic like the plague (the real one!) The creek fills when the nearby river gets high, but water is not always present in visible levels. I am so intrigued by the opportunity to utilize the water, and possibly capture some of it into a more pond like structure for the sake of water retention and possible nutrient source as you mention here...

When you speak on the importance of including aeration, it's a bit of a challenge to conceptualize with such flat terrain. My mind goes to thinking maybe creating some kind of a dug out pond at the (decided) end of the creek stream. But that would effectively cut the creek off at a certain point, and I don't know how I feel about that kind of land manipulation. It might be the best bet though, to change height and create a cascading/aeration opportunity for the water. The flipside of that is that the decided pond is going to be relatively low compared to the rest of the earth around it, like a dug out swimming pool effect. Maybe kind of goofy topographic structure? Idk.

I also think about what plant - Earth technology already exists that might somehow aerate water? If no plastics are being used, what in nature do we know might make a bunch of air happen in there? I don't know yet but sure am curious. Any thoughts you have are cherished in this curious mind!

[joymodlin]

Hello..my first time to watching your..good Job..

[okthanks]

When building the wetland filter why did they put another layer of underlayment on top of the liner around 12 minutes? I assume it’s to protect the liner from the rock, but I’ve never heard of someone doing this. Awesome pond

[kinderranch]

Hello from Texas! I am hooked to your channel and listen one every day. Great information! I have 2 acre pond. far end is 16 ft deep. Where should I begin? I planted some water lilies and Lotuses. and in no time the lotus is taking over the pond! But beside that, how I can improve its aerobic water quality? any pointers?

[junglejohnplaya]

Thanks so much for sharing your video, very well done, informative.. so many videos out there that just take up space on youtube that dont offer any real content, so good job.. I will be building one soon..question- why not place the wetland filter at the top of the pond where the upper waterfall starts, and use a negative edge to let the water start the waterfall? also how long would this pond go if you had a power outage or pump failure? cheers

[jtassoni]

The deeper you go the lower the oxygen without an air diffuser. If you go with a diffuser try to only run it at night or your pond will become warmer if run 24/7.