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

Incredibly perfect pond for my porch. Fantastic and manageable size approximately 5 gallons. Easy to set up. My water plants are thriving. I personally would not recommend fish due to fluctuating water temperatures. The waterfall sound is so relaxing and keeps the water clean and clear. The birds love to stop by for a drink. Ornamental lighting for the evening. I am incredibly pleased.

Just went through first freezing winter and holding up okay. Looks very cute. Got a fake frog and some fake plants for the winter but will add real plants as soon as they are available. This little pond replaces a series of unsatisfactory bird baths that couldn't take the wind in that spot. Birds don't seem to mind. Easy to assemble and comes with decorative rocks.

This is an update from my original posting Our water garden is located in our den, indoors.We enjoy this water garden so much. We purchased the stand and the plant light.The plants like this environment. We have 3 gold fish in the basin. Goldfish do not require a heater. Like our Koi, they like cold water and adapt to very cold water. They can survive winter's snow and ice on their water. The water temperature is not a concern with these fish.Since we have aquariums, I prepared the water by adding dichlorination to tap water in the bowel and purchased black small river rocks and some finer black aquarium rocks and added that to the bottom pond and covered them with the black stones that came with the kit.We rinsed the planting media, all the rocks, drift wood and plants before adding them to the water garden.The goldfish are small Shubunkin. They are doing great. As they mature and grow larger, they will join our Koi pond outside. They are fast moving fish. They almost eat out of my hand.Overall, this is a great purchase. We recommend this product.

The media could not be loaded. Pros: great size, super easy to setup, rocks provided, beautiful addition to any garden or indoor space, sustainable water source for wildlifeImprovements needed: gray cap for waterfall spout pops off constantly and cracked, filter is just okay, needs to be cleaned frequently, should come with plant baskets because the canna balls are not held down well by the black stonesDespite the minor issues, I love this little pond from the moment I set it up. The waterfall actually flows better without the cap so I just left it off. I added more stones from Lake Michigan because I felt it needed more than what it came with. I used an outdoor extension cord with a plug protector to run it into my garden. I’m disappointed that i haven’t seen any birds or squirrels drink from it. But I love the sound and look of it and am very happy I bought it. I don’t plan to put any fish in it due to its small size.*2025 update: still loving this pond and the birds and squirrels do too! Not appropriate for housing fish but great for wildlife and garden.

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.....

The media could not be loaded. Super cute. Easy to setup. You will have to purchase more gravel to this pond if you’re gonna add bamboo to the feature. The gravel included wasn’t enough and was a bit dirty.

I love the pond but really tired of fighting the top that is too small for the bottom. You cannot force it to set over the bottom. I end up stacking rocks under it so it lays flat and keep the water high. If it actually worked, it would be fantastic. I love the sound of water in the bedroom as white noise. It also works really well with plants.