Those goldfish can really hide when they want to. The water clarity isn't that great right now (dead lily roots have a lot of tannin apparently) One of the little buggers made an appearance yesterday when I fed the fish and dove back down. No idea how it had hidden from me so well for so long.

I am almost done with "stone planting" and filled it the rest of the way. The rain that finally showed up helped. The problem I have now is the air pump was for an aquarium, and was designed for volume, not pressure. It cannot push air more than 4', and I am at about 4'6" now. The deeper water shut my filter right off. I was shooting for a "free" project apart from the fish, and there goes the $0 budget.

When I mean free; so far I have sourced materials that I have had laying around from dead projects or the prior landscaping materials such as the rocks. That liner certainly wasn't free back 8 years ago, but I wasn't using it, so here I am now.