So once this thing gets going all I have to do is take half my filters over to another pond and it should be a lot easier to get the next "pond" going. I'm still a long ways to achieving homeostasis but at least now I'm headed in the right direction.
I drained the pool down last night to 500 gallons and topped it to 1000. I'm adding another 1000 today. Let's see how long I can keep it before I need a water change. I should be able to go longer and longer.
As soon as I can afford I plan to haul three more drums on top my car back home. I want to build one more for goldfish and add the other two to the pool. I also plan to build some sort of aeriation ring to keep all the poop in the pool stirred up into the sump pump.
One thing that looks really cool is I have all my discharge from the filters and my bypass so that it causes the pool to flow in a circle. The 4x4 sheet of plywood I put in for shade has gone to the center of the pool and it now rotates in a circle. It would really be cool to have the pump in the middle and dig out the middle of the pool so it is deeper. Then make an aeration ring on the bottom of the pool around the sump to keep everything stirred up. I think I still will do that only I will put the whole thing off center towards the deeper end of the pool.
