We didn't plan to be in this house as long as we have been, and I'm tired of not letting my daughter play in the back yard. I'm also tired of fighting with the algae in the pond, as I've never been able to figure out quite what to do to keep it gone. I thought instead filling in the hole entirely (as I've put a lot of work into redoing this over the last few years, replaced the liner, the filter, and the pump) I'd convert it to a pondless system, leaving the option for future residents to convert it back.

Right now, I've got a 6000ish gallon pond with a 4000gpm pump, and an 8 foot stream beginning with a biofalls filter. The "waterfall" itself is only about 3 ft above pump level (1 ft above a 2 ft deep pond). As far as I can tell, the only thing I need is a lot of rock and some kind of reservoir to give easy access to check water level and for pump maintenance. I am having a hard time what I need without it being in a kit.

Also, I'd like to know what kind of maintenance I should expect from this type of feature, or what sort of products I should be using. Like I said, I never got it down before. At our last go around we were trying to be very "all natural." I was growing a few water lilies (which I'll have to get rid of) and some water hyacinths (also gone) and adding some barley straw extract. With a toddler, and one on the way, I'd like to keep it as simple as possible.

Thanks for the input.

The pump you have, will likely be too large, in gallons per hour to work in the relatively small amount of water needed for a pondless feature. The water would be pumped too fast to collect in the reservoir.

Have you looked at designs of various pondless features?

Can you give us a bit more info on the design you have in mind? Diameter of the feature and height of the fall would be good. Would it be just a trickle or a small fall or maybe a fairly wide fall? Do you envision a filtering system?