$50 Fish Pond
By kathy77
@kathy77 (7485)
Australia
March 18, 2007 3:02pm CST
Our fish pond and water feature looks fantastic and cost us just $50! We had wanted one of these for several years, but they were so expensive. Luckly, we found the perfect use for our daughters' Big W shell shaped paddling pool that they had outgrown! We put it in the ground with some river rocks in the bottom, found a ceramic vase for $10 which we also filled with river rocks. Then we purchased a $5.00 bag of coloured stones and a pump for $25 and topped off with a couple of gold fish and for $50 we have our beautiful pond!
Note: If you'd like a pond and you don't have one of these shells, ask friends with young children that may have outgrown them and check out garage sales. There are a lot of them floating around! (Sorry for the pun.)
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4 responses
@albert2412 (1782)
• United States
19 Mar 07
Really neat idea! I imagine that my cat would like it too. What about getting some very large garbage bags, taping and glueing them together and putting them into a hole in the ground? Do you think that would work? Just an idea.
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
19 Mar 07
Wow, that's great! Congrats on the great buy. Enjoy having staring contests with those fishes. :P
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
18 Mar 07
When I had my house I did one for even less. I had remodeled my bathroom and in the process ended up with a bathtub they wanted to charge me $50 to haul away. I took a saw, cut the front edge off and sunk it in the ground. I used rocks from around the yard and woods behind us and even had a waterfall (my passion). All it cost me was the labor and got a pump for $18 (still have it).
