Preformed ponds

[TLWR]

I'd like to know some details if you have one - even if you aren't using it for your ducks.

I still kind of want to build one and was looking at skippy filter info today and while out today, we check out HD/Lowe's and DH said he'd rather just do a preformed liner, get a smaller one or a nice pot/planter that's big enough to use as the filter.
Lowe's had 91 gallons and smaller. HD had a few larger ones, but nothing that was easy for me to see.


If you have a preformed pond...
1 - how big is it gallon wise?
2- what are the rough dimensions of it (length/width)?
3 - how deep is it at the deepest spot?
If you use your pond for ducks
4 - how many and what kind/size ducks?
5 - how often do you have to 'tend' to it and what does that include?
6 - how often do you need to change out the water?
7 - how do you drain (if you installed one, what's your set up)?
8 - what type of filter do you use and how does it work?



If you happen to have a pond with a pond liner that your ducks use... what type of liner and how thick - saw some 45mil EPDM (EDPM? whatever - that one) and some pvc ones that were 20 and 22 mil.
Duck nails an issue if you provide a way out that doesn't put them in contact with the liner?
If I build one that way, I'm thinking of using landscape timbers, so it would be square/rectangle with straight edges.

 

[gofasterstripe]

I got given 1 of those preformed pools for my ducks. I filled it up last October and they all looked at it like it was the boogieman. Ok, fair enough I didnt bury it in the ground but I did make steps to get up into it. It has been emptied every 2 weeks since October and the ducks have only just started learned how to go up the steps to it..fools that they are. I dont have a pump in it tho, I just run water into it then undo the hopse and let gravity take thr water out. Takes a while but it empties and cleans no problem.
So now that Ive rambled on about my pool for no reason I now know all of that I just typed is no help to oyu what so ever but I thought I would keep going instead of deleting all I just typed!!! Oh...and the pool, literally fell of the back of a truck, it flew out, the wind must of taken it out the back and the driver kept going. My neighbour stopped and picked it up.

 

[davekrista]

I'd be interested to hear what others have to say because I have some of the same questions, so I am bumping this to see if others will share their experiences as well.

 

[toejam]

I have one, but cant figure out the dimesions today. I should be able to by tomorrow or thursday.( days Im at my dads.)

 

[aineheartsyou]

also thinkin about this right now too!

 

[KansasKid]

You might be able get away with having a filter if you have a small amount of ducks (4 or less) but otherwise i wouldn't invest too much time or money into trying to come up with a filter that works well with all the muck and feathers.

 

[mominoz]

I had the largest you could get here , on sale...160 gallons maybe? . We bought a bathtub drain, and put it in, the connected 3-4inch diameter pipe with a ballcock valve and buried it. Worked fine f or 2 years, then it leaked this year , I should have put sand under it, it heaved I think, anyway. I filled it and emptied it roughly every 2 weeks, sometimes once a month when it was cold weather. then I hosed it. I had a problem as my geese liked to put rocks and sticks in it, go figure, they do it in their water buckets too....

I pulled it up to fix and move it down towards my garden so I can use the water for fertilizer..... Not looking forward to the digging.....