We dug a hole, (kidney shaped) and lined it with fine chicken wire, then covered that with concrete (specially treated for OK with fish) to nearly the top. Then as the land was a bit sloped, we started putting bricks (cemented together) on the top edge of the concrete and laying then until they were about a brick height more than the pond at the high end, and about two to two and a half bricks high at the lower end.
We then covered the bricks with the rest of the concrete, and finally painted the whole thing with pond paint in a darkish brown colour.
16 years later the pond is doing so well!,
Only one of the original fish is there, the rest have been taken by kookaburras, but they started breeding as soon as we first put fish in the pond, and there are always babies growing.
After the first 6 months, we stopped feeding the fish, as they were eating stuff off the plants, and bugs or whatever in the water, and we haven't fed them now for the rest of those 16 years.
We have never fully cleaned out out. Just every 6 months or year, we give it a bit of a rake out, to get rid of excess debris that has fallen into the pond.
There is no added air equipment, and it gets sun for about half of the day.
We keep it topped up with the hose, if the water level goes down through evaporation etc.......
I forgot to tell you.......the pond is about three foot deep.
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