Making a small guppy pond (PT 1)

!السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ 

You see, apart from our two fish tanks, we really didn't have any other tanks or ponds, so we were longing to make an outdoor pond. However, we couldn't make our intended pond size as we were going  'budget friendly', so we took an old ugly basin that wasn't typically used often and decided to put guppies as they are one of the small fish types.

This is how we made it: dug, dug, and dug! Then covered the basin with a garbage bag (as we didn't have pond liner.) and planted beautiful plant around the borders of the pond. Then we put stones around it and filled it with water. After installing our pond successfully, acid rain said "hello!", and we said "oh no!". We decided not to put fish as it will effect them due to the toxins, so we kept the pond with water and it was spectacular, however we realized we were breeding troops and troops of mosquitoes and had a massive mosquito army by then.

We emptied our pond and removed the basin so that we can relocate it to an area with a shed, 
so that we can put guppies and they would eat all the mosquito larvae.

Here are some images of the pond previously (without water plants and water).

Another reason we made the decision of relocating the pond was due to heart breaking

deaths of many of the plants who held special places in our hearts. All the plants were growing lusciously until stem and crown rot affected them, this sickness is caused due to poor drainage and we later figured out that the soil mainly consists of huge stone and the majority was clay, which generally has poor drainage. This was very devastating for us, especially Khadijah who took care of them all, although it was so saddening we decided not to give up and made this decision of relocating our pond.

This was one of the best project we did together, Alhammdulilah for getting the opportunity to do such, InshaAllah we will write another separate post on our present updated guppy pond.

Until next time, Feeamanillaah!