how do i build a waterfall for my koi pond?
hi!
i have a roughly 2500 gallon koi pond. i built in in September of 2008 and im 15 years old 
. i have been using a filter weir since because i didn’t have time to build a waterfall before school started 
. i have at least 20 feet ( all together) of extra liner and i have 4 pallets of rock. also behind the pond there is a hill andthat’ss where im building the waterfall. i want the waterfall to beroughlyy 3-6 feetLongf and a couple feet wide. i really need help on how toSett it up andbuildd it.
theeasiestt thing to do it to juts make like a “slip and slide” out of the liner curving the sides but thatdefeatss the purposebecausee it would look horrible! i really need to know hot to build it correctly.
also, my pump is 2600 gph. when it goes through the filter and everything else the gph coming out into the waterfall is a lot less correct? its a tetra pond 4000 pressurizedfilterr with u.v sterilizer.
i really need help!
thanksx a lot!
Sounds like a great project!
First thing you need to check is the pump. Find the specs and determine what the GPH are at what “head.” As the pump has to pump uphill it will reduce the gph. In one pond that I know of they had to replace the pump because it couldn’t handle the height of the waterfall and still put out enough GPH.
2. Are you going to stick the rocks together or leave them loose? If you are sticking them you need to find what is safe to use and what is available. If you have lots of little rocks you may have to think about cementing them together. If you have big rocks you might get away with a series of steps.
3. Either way you are going to be starting at the bottom because water runs downhill and you want to direct it from upper rocks to lower ones.
4. Probably this should go earlier but you need to have some idea of the look you want to achieve. You will put your liner under the rocks over an approximately shaped earth. Try putting it together dry and running some water over it. Play around with it to get the look and sound that you like.
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