I uploaded these videos of my stock tank to YouTube a few months ago and forgot to publish them after they were converted. Duh

A few years ago a started a guppy pond in my garden using a 110 gallon stock tank. Much to my surprise it changed the whole garden. All sorts of critters were attracted to the water. Some examples" I now have a population of frogs that spawn in the tank. The are always a large number of dragonflies in the garden and mosquitoes are almost non existent. In the warmer months the garden always has birds. I'm hoping to start a larger tank in the spring. Here are a few videos of the tank I made a few months ago.

Last year I threw out buckets of frogbit almost every week. No frog bit this year. First it got attacked by aphids and the something started eating it. I'm betting caterpillars though I never caught them in the act. Last year I picked hundreds of them off the plants but they didn't show become a problem until it was well established.

This is the best feeding ring I have ever had. It's made frpm 3/4 inch PVC.

Guppies In a 110 Gallon Tuff Stuff Stock Tank

I started raising guppies outside last year. It's incredibly easy to do. You really don't have to feed them but I like to so I get a good look at them. I started out wit a tarp over a compost pile that kept getting full of water and mosquitoes that I put some guppies in to eat the mosquitoes. They grew fast and when I found the 110 gallon stock tank for sale cheap at Tractor supply I just had to give this a try. There is no filtration. The stock tank gets full sun and its full of plants. The only maintenance is keeping it full of water from the hose. If the water gets to green for me I let the hose trickle into the tank until it clears. The green water does not harm the fish but you can't see them if it gets to bad. This only happens in the spring before the plants get going.

 

Accidental Harbor Freight tarp pond on top of a compost pile

I put this blue tarp on my compost pile, hoping to stop weeds from growing in it. It didn't leak, and the rain-filled it up. Then the rains came and filled the tarp with water. The Mosquitoes took over. To control the mosquitoes, I added a few guppies. I added some duckweed for shade and to take care of the ammonia. The guppies proliferated, and their colors popped. When summer came, the water was to shallow and got too hot for the guppies, and  I moved the guppies to a 110-gallon stock tank I got on sale from Tractor Supply. The stock tank pond changed the character of my back yard garden and produced some great guppies.