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Necro time.
Earlier in this thread, I detailed how I lost my 55-gallon aquarium in a floor-destroying catastrophe.
This thread was buried last summer in August when many of you may have seen my posts about "the derecho".
After losing thousands of dollars in prize koi, we decided to hire someone to rebuild the pond and finally fix all the little nagging issues I'd been patching for the last 10 years since inheriting the pond and its maintenance.
We spent $4000 for a guy to work 3-4 hours a day and he finally "finished" the pond in November, leaving us with no time to cycle and stock the pond before winter.
Long story short, I ended up this spring with a pond that had more issues, namely leaks, than before I spent the money. That's water under the bridge at this point (no pun intended) because the guy took money for other work (a front deck) that's in even worse shape and he's never coming back, so...
I finally got all of the functional fixes in place this past weekend. Excavated a ton of rock, fixed the waterfall leaks he created because he doesn't understand hydrodyamics (pretty sure at this point, he wasn't a "professional" pond builder).
Headed to get fish soon!
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