Prefabricated pools are ideal for small ponds, because they are relatively deep despite their small size and have well-formed planting zones. With foil, only a very shallow pond could be built on a comparable area.
In addition, pond bowls, easy, handy and easy to use. The choice of shapes and sizes is enormous: There are irregularly shaped bowls, which are hardly overgrown by nature- or foil particles can be distinguished, and those in geometric shapes, which are very suitable for the construction of formal ornamental ponds. They are mostly flatter and don't have molded walls.
When the pleasure of the water garden grows, With most prefabricated ponds, further pond shells can be placed next to the first and connected with hoses. Planted filter ponds can also be connected.
The edges can be a problem: They are not as easy to hide as with liner ponds. Lush marsh plants in and grasses next to the tank are a good solution.
The pond bowl can easily go- and be carried here, until the right place is found. Place the bowl on the ground and trace the outline with it 20 cm allowance all around. Then place the bowl in the dug out hollow, 1 align with the spirit level, 2 and let some water in, so that the floor settles. 3 The shell may need to be adjusted again. The cavities are now filled with sand. At the same time, water is filled up in the basin. After just a few weeks, the pond looks alive.
In most cases, garden ponds are not big and deep enough, to regenerate yourself. Filter systems are necessary, to keep the water clean.
1 Wie eine natürliche Kläranlage wirkt dieses System. The water is fed into the filter pond via a stream and flows through a filter basket, filled with pebbles and substrate and planted with marsh plants. Excess nutrients are bound (bones).
2 Das Teichwasser wird in ein geschlossenes Filtersystem gepumpt und gereinigt über einen Bachlauf zurückgeleitet (bones).
3 The complete filter set consists of a pump, Filter bowl with mechanical and biological filter media, hoses and UVC light (Gardena).
4 The pond water is foamed in the Turbocleaner. The bubbles take the dirt particles with them (Febi Aqua-technik).
The bowls are called system ponds, which not only have several depth zones but also a shaped filter area. The filter area (Four 1, right) is filled with granules and densely planted. Since the separating ridges are below the water surface, a constant exchange of water is guaranteed. System ponds come in many sizes