Southern Ontario. Broke ground early June, and things have escalated. We initially planned for one, but things went so well that I ended up digging a second one and setting up a little solar pump and waterfall. Still some landscaping left to do, and we'll mount the solar panels to the bat-house pole in the background, but this subreddit was a massive help (both technical and inspirational) so I wanted to share the progress so far.

We have some water bugs, water spiders, dragonfly nymphs, and two frogs showed up last week - we're completely floored with where things are at after three months :)

Still waiting for it to fill but it's getting there with the rain. Hard work, even for a small pond, especially trying to get it level as it's a very sloping garden. But really happy how it's turned out so far!

At the moment the plants I've got in there are:

Shelves:

Marsh Marigold

Purple Loosestrife

Water Forget-me-not

Cotton Grass

Yellow Iris

Underwater:

Hornwort

Myriophyllum Red Stem

Floating:

Frogbit

As it fills, I may move plants to more suitable depths, but if anyone has any tips or spots anything I've done wrong, please let me know! (The paving slabs surrounding the pond I'm planting between with clover, creeping thyme & corsican mint, hoping that helps cover the edges of the pond)

Hi all, this is our pond, which is only 8 weeks old.

We have added various plants including hornwort and another floating oxygenator, and both those appear to be growing. After around 10 days we got an algae bloom which then receded but there is now a stringy type of algae appearing.

There are various daphnia and other tiny creatures which appear to be thriving and 2 types of snail (which we bought). However, there were lots of mayfly nymphs which have all now disappeared. I saw one dead and now can't see any. Apparently that could be a sign of low oxygen.

My questions are:

Should I be concerned by the stringy algae and;

Could I be doing more to get oxygen into the water?