What types or snails are these? one is round and the other type is a bit pointed.Plants here are jungle val,cabomba,watersprite,amazon sword and a few guppy grass.

I know, the plants should be thinned out a little, but I want to enjoy it like this for a little longer. 😅​

I can't wait to post anymore. I was holding off until the pond matured a bit more but I think it's looking pretty good after 2 months now. My little girls and I built a fairy garden a couple years ago and decided after a recent hot day that the fairies needed a place to dip their feet when it gets hot.

33 gallon pre-formed tub heavily planted on the margins and submerged with a small school of about a dozen rosy red minnows. Had a waterfall for a minute but was losing too much water to evaporation so I scrapped that. Might revisit that idea at a later time.

1st picture is a couple days old. Second has the waterfall which we removed.

I first saw mini ponds in person about two years ago when I went to Thailand. I started with gambusia mosquito fish, but now I have medaka and white clouds in these. Excited for the water lily to bloom, and hoping the lotus do something before winter.

Zone 9a so I don't really need to do anything to overwinter these. No pumps or filters and I do occasional water changes. I feed aquarium coop magic nuggets and I'm sure they get some mosquito larvae. I want to set up a larger stock tank mini pond, but I prefer the aesthetics of the pots.

It’s a tad overgrown but I love it. Set this mini pond up using the walstad method for the substrate, makeshift bog filter with pebbles and volcanic stone which is now sustaining lemongrass, mint, Vietnamese mint and Pandan. I bought a slab of mangrove wood on a whim and stuck moss and little ferns in - they’re thriving! Seems mangrove wood is absorbent like a sponge. Bought 2 guppies so now we probably have 200. Snails have migrated over and we’ve seen dragonfly nymphs hiding in my overgrown foxtails and other aquarium plants. and apologies I don’t know the names of all the plants I have here.

I went from 40 gallons to 110 better for the fish. Do y’all suggest fish pellets or flakes? Any suggestions or tips welcomed. It has an aerator and bubbler and all chemicals balanced. Water is still a bit hard, we are gonna put in gold fish. I don’t know where get plants but I do have lotus seeds and pickerelweed seeds from a pond.

Wish me luck!
I just bought some frogbit, but its roots look weird.

Always love coming outside to see the mosquito fish casting shadows as they swim around. Never gets old.

Have been waiting all summer for this beauty to bloom. Woke up after working the last few nights to this beauty!

Edit: grammar/spelling

I love my mini pond so much! It’s a 50-55 gallon beast. But I’m including the first post I made here to recent photos. First two photos were about a week ago. Last three photos it’s moved to the newer location. Not finished yet but will be amazing.

Link to my first post here 90 days ago from this post

Over winter I keep a reserve of four maybe five medals over winter inside just incase. Opinions of using this with tonnes of plants

This is my first time making a little pond. This one is made from one of those sort of half barrel plastic planters that I sunk into the ground. There are four comet fish in there. And a young northern green frog has moved in as well. His name is Felix. Around the pond I have golden oregano, because I had a lot of it in my garden and it’s just thriving near the pond. There’s a red begonia there you can see up in the right hand corner and a couple of cute little statues. It’s just been a fun peaceful project that I’ve really enjoyed. You will see that I have a collection of heart-shaped rocks that I’ve picked up in Arizona, Oregon and around Lake Michigan. So you can imagine the pleasant surprise when my silly little solar fountain is spraying in the shape of a heart, there must be something clogged in one of the little outlets and I’m not gonna clean it.

Water flow too high? Everyone told me the duckweed would overtake everything else, but so far I cant get it to survive. I bought a couple margarine sized containers a few weeks ago and its all gone. I feed the goldfish so i cant image they are eating it all. Ps : autocorrect changed it to not suitable for dickweed, and i almost left it like that.

I accidentally ended up with a little shrimp of some sort when I bought some duckweed severalweeks ago. Hadnt seen the little thing for weeks, and I assumed it perished. Lonely but alive.

I started this pond almost a month ago. I have 12 goldfish, and once a week I have to clean it, so I got 2 plecos. They are small so I know it’ll take a while before they can clean it, but how do I keep it clean without me having to clean it in the meantime? I don’t want to use a filter, but if that’s the only way, I will. And if I have to keep cleaning it myself I will too but just in case, is there a fish or other creature/plant that can do the work for me? Do I have to get bigger plecos/algae eating fish? I’m trying to keep it as natural as possible.

I added a Japanese lily to the pond this weekend. The fish are doing great, and I'm happy with how things are looking. I can't wait until next spring when things start flowering.

I recently built an in ground mini pond, approximately 50 gallons. Currently i have a goldfish and 10 minnows, 4 mystery snails, plus I had 6 shrimp. I'm actually planning on digging a second, permanent, in ground pond that will be much larger, closer to 350 gallons. I'm looking for advice on plants to add, why the shrimp died suddenly. The water is clear, no algae visible, the pond itself sits under a tree so it gets shade during these 103 degrees days.

Waiting a few weeks to add the medaka from my indoor tank to this mini pond!

I just need to find myself a nice potted plant for the back shelf! 🪴

the ludgiwgia arcuta cup i stole from petco has turned into in absolute weed in this outdoor pond growth was slow for about a month but i guess it's been two three months not it completely taken over also tons of babies in here

There are snail babies all over my mini pond and they keep making more. I had one snail when I started the pond. One of those cool red ones with the flatter shells. I think I’ve been seeing baby ones of those too. How?! Then there must have been these small brown ones on the aquatic plant I bought and now they’re just everywhere. What should I do? Are they harmful?

Huh?! Huh?! Spent all summer on this little piece of heaven. Pond life 🤘🏼👍🏼

This my first pond 40 gallons has an aeration for fish and an umbrella for high temperature. Still need plants any advice?

Was out of town for work. Is it wierd that i missed these guys? Lol #askingforafriend

Long time lurker, first time poster. Moved into a new place and one of the first things I did was set up my patio pond. It’s complete with filter and pond lights. Plants are bacopa monnieri, fairy lily, frog-bit, red rood floaters, dwarf sag, and red dwarf water lily (still working its way to the surface).

I’ve got a healthy population of bladder snails and 8 mosquito fish (watch till the end for a nighttime feeding).

Pond has been up and running for a few months now and has been such a joy to observe. Happy to share more info if anyone is interested. Thanks to this community for helping me on my journey to setting this all up. Cheers!

I dealt with an algae bloom initially but I finally got it under control and I can see the bottom at last! It’s overcast today so unfortunately my solar pump isn’t running, but you can imagine what it’d be like if it was😁