Custom fish pond?

Question

Alright I have my pond dug out and my liner. Im using bricks to hold the liner. Now I dont have a lot of space to lay the bricks how can I put the bricks so they stay put? I dont want it to rain and the bricks fall into the pond. Also how do you measure how many gallons your pond takes without filling it up?

Answer 1

I'll assume you mean you are laying the bricks around the top edge of the pond? I would dig a lip, the width of the bricks, sloped away from the pond, around the edge of the pond making sure the liner comes up, over the lip and up behind it as well. Then nestle the bricks onto the lip, pushing them down and away from the pond but still with liner up behind them. You can cover the extra liner with what ever is behind the bricks.

Answer 2

You can only estimate the gallons. Depth Times width times lenght will get you close, take approx. 20 % away for the contours of the sides. Bricks are ok I guess, the more you stack the heavier and the better they will stay. You can stake the liner under the bricks , then it will pull on the stakes rather than your bricks.

Answer 3

Place the bricks around the edge of the hole 2 deep and up to 3 high with the coner of each bich touching it's neighbour, they wont fall in, don't worry.

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Hole With A flat round bottom:
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To Measure Volume, Take the top diameter of the pond and divide by ½ to get radius then (3.1417 x Radius)² then x that by the depth. the result will be the cubic volume in the unit that you measured it in (eg Inches, cm, mm)

(But Read On...)

-(231.000001 Cubic Inches In a U.S. gallon)
-(1000 cubic centimeteres in a Litre)

NOW !, I Assume That The Pond Is tapered in as it gets to the bottom. What You do then is take the bottom diameter of the hole and repeat the calculation as you did with the top one.

Then You minus the new calculation from the old one (before U Divided it for Gallons), then divide that № by ½.

Now you have this small volume in addition to the first large one.
You now simply minus this new small volume from the first large one (before it was divided for gallons) and the answer will be the exact Volume of the pond (then obviously you just divide it by 231.000001 for GALLONS ,or
,if measured in cm, 1000 for LITRES )
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½ Spherical Hole:
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This Is An Easier Calculation, just measure the diameter then divide by ½ (for the radius).

then its (Pi x radius)³

= (3.1417 x radius) x (3.1417 x radius) x (3.1417 x radius)

Then Divide The final answer by ½ then divide this figure by 231.000001 to give you the exact GALLONS
(or 1000 to give you LITRES if you were measuring in cm).
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NOTE:--- If your Hole is jelly bean shaped or something like that, sorry I forget how to do that calculation but if you just need an approx. then just measure the length x width x height in inches and then divide the answer by 231 for gallons. then x that no by .75 and this will be a good approximate.

HOPE THIS HELPED.

Answer 4

try length x width x depth x 7.5 = gallons
if the liner isn't stretched and the side doesn't slope into the pond the bricks should stay perched on the side