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Welcome back to the patio pond set.
It's been nearly a year since we finished this project.
And I wanted to revisit it and show you how the pond has developed.
And share some of the experiences that the homeowners have with the feature.
So I'm sitting next to the bog filter underneath these amazing Taros.
I wanna be perfectly honest with you.
The homeowner's done practically nothing to this feature since I've left about
a year ago.
I will admit he's pulled out a few of the plants that he didn't like the color and
texture of.
And he's really kinda let these Taros take over the, the bog filter
and, and do all the work to, to manage the water quality in this.
I wanna point out that we use these particular Taros in,
in static environments around pond borders and pond edges.
And they don't do quite as well as in an environment where, where we have an active
bog filter, where we're sending nutrient rich water and upwelling through there.
So I gotta tell you, when I came around the corner and saw it, it was amazing experience
to see just how big these Taro features have gotten in this bog filter.
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So I wanna touch on maintenance, because that's always a big question.
If you remember we installed an overflow in here.
So, if the inlet for the water leaving the bog back to the pond,
if it would ever get clogged or jammed up with roots, we would have the fail safe so
it wouldn't drain the pond and
water wouldn't, wouldn't make its way through the overflow back into the pond.
The homeowners never experienced the, the overflow working, so we haven't had any
maintenance issues with, roots embedded in that, that inlet back to the pond.
The homeowner said that no water changes.
He simply added water due to evaporation.
That's the only maintenance the homeowner's done besides trimming a little bit of plant
when he's out here hanging out by the pond.
To carry on with the maintenance team,
the homeowner's popped that pump out a couple of times and hit it with the hose,
and with that cool little quick disconnect we installed on there for him.
He simply put it back in and fired the whole system back up.
System's had no water changes, and the water is crystal clear.
And the quality of everything is just amazing.
That's of course because we made the bog filter so big.
But remember we made it that large in comparison to the pond
because the homeowner wanted a lot of specimen plants.
That was equally as important to him,
as the low end of the pond, which brings me to the real problem with this pond.
All the Wakin fish that I put in here, they have vanished.
They have been eaten by raccoons.
And the homeowner tells me, sometimes three and
four raccoons climbed across his roof, came into his backyard, and
terrorizes the whole lower end of the pond, which doesn't make me happy at all.
I really want him to enjoy the goldfish like he wanted as well.
So in the next video, I'm gonna show you how we're going to solve that predator problem
with a couple little tips and tricks.
I hope you've enjoyed our little revisit to the patio pond.
And I think this water features a real testimony
on how well a bog filter can perform in an aquatic environment.
Remember, we're only sending a little bit of trickling water
through this bog filter back to here.
The water quality is crystal clear, and the electric bill for
the homeowner is very minimal.
I couldn't be happier with the results.
I hope you've enjoyed the whole outcome.
Until next time, I'm Eric Triplett, The Pond Digger.
Thanks for watching.
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