Aquascape AquaGarden Container Water Feature Kit – Indoor & Outdoor Mini Pond with Waterfall Fountain, Pump & Filtration for Home & Patio, Brown

I am very familiar with this company and all of their excellent products because they are one of the best. I used to build ponds with my husband and anything related to this company is going to be fabulous. I wanted to add something small to my sitting area in the back and it looked fabulous and worked so well. It has simple Elegance. I will be purchasing the stand for it as well as I sold the table that it was sitting on. I recommend this company and I recommend all their products. It's an easy setup and easy pump system and easy to take care of. You'll love the idea of adding your own plants, stones and rocks creating your own unique little Paradise that is different than the usual water features, and very classy. Again a quality product that you cannot go wrong with. You might spend a little bit more but it's well worth it in the end. So I definitely recommend this water feature, you can't go wrong. I guarantee it.

I love this mini pond kit! I wanted something a little different than the standard fish tank. I also wanted a little pond so this was perfect. Assembly and instructions were straight forward without issue. The foam buffer is a bit tricky when taking it off to clean but I certainly wouldn’t steer away because of that. This pond is so cool because you can design it so many ways but it comes with what you need if you’d rather keep it basic. I added live plants and two platys that love it. I also added some baby snails and ceramic/charcoal rings to assist with filtration. Which hasn’t been an issue. The tank has stayed very clean for over a month now. I test the water daily (just for the first few weeks) and the numbers have been great. The pump is relatively quiet and the waterfall is soothing and relaxing. The light it comes with is very bright, overwhelmingly so at night. I changed it out for a light that changes colors to mimic the time of day. It’s so much nicer and I love the way I can change colors. The stock light is just a bright white. I’ve had zero issues with water splashing on the hardwood floors which has not been my experience with other water features. I didn’t order the stand because of reviews about rust but found a small heavy duty plant stand which I think will work great. This mini pond fits perfectly in my indoor area and I couldn’t be happier. I get so many compliments on it and enjoy relaxing next to the beautiful waterfall. The kit comes with plenty of rocks but I added some larger for decor. The strange brown substrate balls kept floating away no matter how many rocks I put on top of them. I ended up taking most of this out and not using. If I had a recommendation for aquascapes it would be to include a screen or something to weigh those down but my plants are doing amazing without them anyway. I strongly recommend this mini pond if you’re hesitating. I think you’ll be glad you got it. I sure was!!

The mini pond is easy to set up. I didn’t use the black pebbles. I used sand for the base and used the multi coloured pebbles for the top. I also fitted a spare grow light into the top section. I had some problems with the pump and light because we use a different voltage, and even with a transformer it was problematic, but that’s not the fault of the manufacturer. It was easy to retrofit my own pump into the socket and replace the light so overall I’m pretty happy with it.

OK. I never do reviews….EVER! You buy a light fixture, it’s a light fixture. You buy some tools, they’re tools. You buy a computer component it is a computer component. All are better or worse for what they do and you learn if they are crap (or not) then you move on in your own elated or disgusted silence. But this item. Well, this item is different. It’s an item that adds to the charm of your own private place. A back porch. A front porch. A deck….heck, even a living room or sun room...or any room if you’d like. It's an incredible purchase! Background: I drive a truck. I’m not home most of the week. I don’t have time to build a back porch pond. (though I could). I don’t have time to create a special outdoor place. (though I could). But I do what I can when I am able. I cut the grass. I fix light switches. I change oil. I do guy stuff on the weekends. So one day, to give my wife a nice area to work at home, I made a quickie outdoor fountain from a large planter to put on our back porch and it was “o k”...(my wife thought so), but it didn’t have the charm I was looking for. It was too deep and I had to make a custom hanger for the water plants. I installed a low pressure fountain but when the fountain was adjusted to attaine the soothing water sound we were looking for, it shot water all over the place. I thought….well, maybe I could make some kind of waterfall thingy. I toyed with ideas to build a wooden box with a liner. I toyed with an elaborate fountain….I toyed with all kinds of ideas….yeah, well….how long will that take to build? How about hiring a…...STOP!…..I’m not going to hire some designer to do what I could do….especially these days. But I was in a quandary. I don’t have the time and I needed something simple. I needed something quick. I needed something I don’t have to build…...I needed something with quality and my wife’s birthday is coming up and I want to give her a place she can chill…. So I shopped and shopped and ( from my phone….on a freight run….somewhere in Indiana)….BEHOLD! Enter this piece of kit! I recently took off work for half a week for other obligations and while I was off work, I ordered this. I selected next day shipping from Amazon and it was delivered post haste. I had it up and running in about 3 hours (before my wife came home from a seminar.) I surprised her with this….(with me grinning like a prom-dance kid)….aw...shucks! She loves it! I am content. Silly simple to install. Just follow the printed directions. I would imagine that if you have a level surface….(a concrete porch or slab or a level deck surface, you will be alright). But I wanted to elevate this a bit. In my case, I had a couple of oak tree trunk cross sections cut into 2-4 inch thickness and I used one as a base for the pond. I placed several 2×4 weather rated scraps under the oak cross section and used a ¼ plywood section on top of the oak slab to make a uniform base and shimmed where needed. The results are impeccable! I rinsed off the included stones then added them to the pond, then filled it a few inches and swirled the water around to stir up any sediment and debris, then used a scoop to throw out any water that looked cloudy. Refilled a few inches and repeat. Note: This is particularly important if you are adding water plants to the upper shelf! After placing the clay/growing media into the upper shelf, rinse the root balls of your plants until most, if not all, of the potting soil/growing media is gone. Then place them into the clay media that is provided and add the stones on top and run the pump. Scoop out any floating debris or dirty water that spills into the main basin, watch for more debris, scoop out, then fill to the level you feel best. I did buy the overhead LED lamp that is advertised in addition to this item. Frankly, my wife and I prefer it to the under waterfall LED that comes with the kit. To us, it adds an ambiance and effect that the provided led (under the fall) cannot provide...your experience may differ. Experiment! You can create a variety of environments with this wonderful piece of decor. I’ve seen everything from far-east mystic to quaint garden gnome hoopla to some pretty avaunt-garde stuff.….It’s yours to explore. But don’t go piling a bunch of rocks and crap on the waterfall shelf….it is plastic after all and will probably distort with too much weight. Experiment with it. A few creative and tasteful accents can bring this item to life. My wife and I dug out a couple decorations lying around in the basement and created our own simple scene. Frogs and turtles: Quaint. Country. Gods gift. BTW….Note how clean the water!… I ran this system for 24 hours before I took this picture The water level is actually just to the lower edge of the turtles shell...all of the legs are under water. Clean and clear! Buy this if you don’t have the the time to build the most awesome porch pond to impress your wife…..she'll love you , she'll give you kisses. She'll say you're wonderful and you'll then have more time to fix the light switch that broke 2 days ago.....

Very happy with my purchase of this mini pond. Perfect size for my 5x15 foot balcony, and when the window is open I can hear it trickling indoors. Set up was simple to do. I, like others did not use the light it comes with. It comes with a good selection of stones to get you started. I created a bog like upper garden using ‘wild’ plants I collected from nature. The bowl section I added freshwater aquarium plants that do not require a heater. Once evenings hit a steady 68+ degrees I will add white cloud minnows or rice fish. Only thing to keep in mind is I need to top it up every other day from evaporation. (Use de-chlorinated water if adding fish!)