Water Gardening - Action Water Gardens

104 Pages·2013·13.1 MB·English

Your paradise.
Our passion.®
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Water Gardening

CATALOG
Your Paradise Our Passion
Table of Contents
10 Kits 64 Fish Care
16 Pond Filtration 70 Plants Video on
This Catalog
30 Liner & Underlayment 72 Decorative
32 Hose & Pipe 88 Seasonal Care &
Predator Control
34 Pumps
92 Installation Tools
48 Lighting
96 RainXchange® Systems
54 Water Treatment
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Welcome 3
The Pond Guy™ 1982 with Sampson It all began
"The turtle that started it all!"
because my parents said I
could bring my pet turtles from New Jersey to our new
home outside Chicago in 1982. They knew I was not too
excited to leave my lakefront home for the cornfields of
Illinois. As a 12 year old nature freak I loved everything
about researching and building my own pond to hold them.
However, that first pond leaked, turned green, and even
my prize turtles migrated away! So began my odyssey with
man-made water features. Undaunted, I began designing
and experimenting with different filters and pump designs
along with construction techniques that replicated what
Mother Nature did naturally. The result was what became
the Aquascape Ecosystem approach to water feature construction. Combining technology with natural design principles
to work with Mother Nature and not against her, you can now create beautiful, low maintenance, water features that
can fit naturally into any landscape setting.
32 years after falling in love with man-made water features, Aquascape is the largest, most passionate, company in the
world supplying professionals and hobbyists alike with water feature products. Today, we have developed so many prod-
ucts and solutions to make water features so much more enjoyable and cost effective. From LED lights (page 48) that
transform any water feature into a nighttime oasis, energy efficient pumps (page 34) with cool remote control capability,
to even products that utilize cutting edge technology like the IonGen™ (page 26) that controls string algae. Whether you
are installing or maintaining a full blown Aquascape Ecosystem Pond (page 11-13) or simply adding a Patio Pond (page
74-75) with some fish and plants you will find it in this catalog and on our website www.aquascapeinc.com along with a
list of Certified Aquascape Contractors and retailers to assist you.
Your Paradise, Our Passion is our mantra. In today's fast paced, electronically dependent world we believe now
more than ever people need a natural diversion. Nothing you can do in your yard will allow you to achieve that more
than a decorative water feature. And, nobody cares more about helping you create that escape place at home
than Aquascape.
Welcome to "the Water Feature Lifestyle." It's addictive!
Greg Wittstock
The Pond Guy™
Aqu a s c aThpe e
Ecos yste m
4 Living the Water Feature Lifestyle
Living the Water Feature Lifestyle
Today more than ever, time is a coveted possession. At
Aquascape, our passion is helping people transform their yards
and subsequently how they spend their time. When you own a
water feature you transform a house into a home. You create an
escape from the stress of the world right where you live. How
important is that in today’s world?! We have dubbed this trend
“Living The Water Feature Lifestyle.” The Water Feature Lifestyle
is what you experience owning and living with a water feature.
It’s how you interact with it but even more descriptively, it’s how it
interacts with you! When you live with a water garden, a waterfall,
or even a decorative fountainscape you will be seduced outside,
away from the T.V., the computer, the rat-race. People simply
don’t sit in their yards for hours on end watching their flowers
grow. When you’re feeding the fish, watching the birds splash in
your waterfall or simply gazing hypnotically and listening to the
beautiful sounds of a babbling brook, you’re experiencing “The
Water Feature Lifestyle” right where you live ... at home! From this
catalog to our website, www.aquascapeinc.com, to our YouTube
videos (www.youtube.com/Aquascape4), you can learn about and
decide what feature is best for your property, lifestyle, and budget.
Your Paradise, Our Passion®!
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The Lifestyle
Who We Are 5
Who We Are
The best way for us to answer who we an escape at home. A place that beckons the products we produce, because as
are, is to ask who you are? Are you you outdoors where the stress melts you will see, we live with them ourselves.
someone who works hard, or worked away. It’s about creating a feature that We have many unique products, designs,
hard, for your money? Do you like to draws your eyes to it that sets a mood, all and features that we’ve created to expand
relax? Get your hands dirty? Love fish? while making a statement. the enjoyment, improve the performance,
Love nature? Love the outdoors? Do Throughout the pages of this catalog you or reduce the cost of owning a water
you like to entertain? At Aquascape we can see who we are by seeing how we feature. For you, that means “Living
are all about “Living the Water Feature live with the water features we own. What the Water Feature Lifestyle” should
Lifestyle,” which encapsulates all those we aren’t, is like any other manufacturer be more enjoyable, simpler, and more
things PLUS so much more! Living the of water feature products in the world. We economical than ever with Aquascape.
Water Feature Lifestyle is about having are hobbyists who are passionate about “Your Paradise, Our Passion.”
Truly a Workplace Utopia
In less than 15 years, Aquascape has morphed from a tiny basement
and garage to a 256,000 square foot state-of-the-art green office
building. Aqualand started as The Pond Guy's™ pie-in-the-sky dream and
is now the pride and joy of employees and customers alike.
Aqualand is truly a workplace utopia
and the embodiment of Aquascape
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spirit and culture - building a balance in
Aqualand
life that stimulates the mind, challenges
Aqualand
the body, and nurtures the spirit.
Our Home
Visit www.aquascapeinc.com to learn more.
The Culture of Building a Balance
Culture is a way of living that is most often associated with artistic and
intellectual pursuits. It can be found in a variety of socio-environments:
family, religion, education, sports teams, business, and more. When used
in business, culture becomes a powerful tool that can set a company
apart from its competitors. Aquascape, Inc. has created an entrepre-
neurial culture that is creative, fun, healthy, innovative, competitive,
dynamic, and fast-paced. Aquascape is the industry leader in all things
water gardening; from pond kits to seminars, special events to marketing
materials, fish food to books, water treatments to fountains, and more.
Due to the rapid growth of the water garden market, Aquascape
embraces a cultural philosophy of building a balance in life.
6 Employee Pond Showcase
PRESIDENT OF AQUASCAPE
COLLEEN HEITZLER
In 2002, about one year after I are never far from it; setting
started working at Aquascape, a up army men, action figures,
Pondless® Waterfall and stream Barbie dolls, and buckets of
was installed at my house by about water ... the list goes on and
70 contractors on a Build-a-Pondless® on. Our neighbor boy would
Waterfall seminar. At wander from his house
the time, my kids were and sit by the stream
6, 4 and 2 years old and for hours … literally.
it immediately became Now my children are
the center point of our 15, 13 and 10. The
backyard. The kids always army guys and the
wanted to be near it, the dinosaurs are a fond
neighbors loved it and Bob memory of younger as we lay down to sleep at the end of
and I have loved relaxing years. As a growing family, we the day, we open the windows of our
by it since the day the find ourselves gathering for dinner master bedroom to let in the soothing
waterfall was turned on. near the stream, and we seem sound of the stream. There’s really not
In the early morning to be in less of a hurry to jump a time of day that we don’t interact with
it’s my “quiet time” up from the table to clean up and and love our stream. I can’t imagine
spot. During breakfast, we watch the birds move on to what … the TV? Yikes! We’ve my backyard or my house without it.
bathe and the squirrels scamper around added a new stone patio and a fire pit to
the ground cover. In the daytime, the kids increase the backyard enjoyment. And
DIRECTOR OF CONTRACTOR DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD RESEARCH VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
ED BEAULIEU JEFF PAYTON
The feeling ... Priceless!!! It hink our pond gets used by my kids more than their
It's like trying to describe a day of fishing and not swing set does! The first thing they do when they go
catching a thing but loving it! It’s like … A day at the in the backyard is run over to the pond to check on the
beach reading a book and listening to the waves ... Sitting fish, find frogs or throw some of the rocks. When it gets hot
on a dock at sunset with friends and family ... Hiking up a outside they love to put their swim trunks on and climb in the
mountain stream looking for the headwaters, experiencing
unique vistas around each bend
of the stream ... Kids catching
frogs and asking me about
dragonfly naiads ... The shimmer
and reflection of the evening sun
on my ceiling ... The summer
breeze blowing through my
bedroom window carrying with it
the music of cascading water ...
water garden and slide down the
big smooth rock on the waterfall.
My favorite time to enjoy my pond
is when it gets dark outside and
the lights come on. The fish seem
to be more active when the lights
illuminate everything in the water.
Employee Pond Showcase 7
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, AQUASCAPE DESIGNS
BRIAN HELFRICH DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MARKETING
SCOTT RHODES
What do I like best about my pond? I can’t
choose just one thing but these are some of
my favorite benefits of pond ownership: Ic ouldn't imagine life without a
• The anticipation of spring after a long water feature. As a lifelong pond
winter, the koi come out of their cave like and aquarium hobbyist, water
the ground hog comes out of his hole. has always been an integral part of
who I am as a person. It all started
• The pond constantly feeds my imagination.
with a 10-gallon aquarium in my
As a somewhat creative person, I find that the
bedroom as a child and blossomed
pond is like a painting that is never finished
into a lifelong career and passion. 
and I can always improve on it.
The size of my aquarium also grew
• The wildlife! The frogs, salamanders,
dragonflies, fish, snails, different
birds (even the occasional visit from
a heron lights up my kids’ eyes).
• The smile on my wife’s face as
she watches our kids explore,
discover, imagine and learn.
• The indescribable feeling of relaxation
I have as the moon rises, the sun sets
and the underwater lights light up the
pond and cast moving shadows against
the house and the different trees.
from 10 gallons into a 200 gallon
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saltwater reef aquarium and our
Brian's Pond newest addition, a beautiful self-built
basalt column fountain as the main
focal point when walking into my
home. My wife often comments on
the huge diversity of wildlife that uses
our fountain for bathing or taking a
well deserved drink of water on hot
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING summer days, I guess she is hooked
as well. I would like to personally
MICHELLE KURSCHNER
welcome you to the Aquascape family
and the water gardening lifestyle!
My water feature is the centerpiece of my
entire outdoor living area. Everything else
is built around it to compliment it because
it is the most enjoyable room at my home during the
warmer months. I just can’t get enough of it. The first
thing that I do when I come home after work is visit my
pond because
there is always
something new
about it. Whether
it is new wildlife,
new plantings
emerging or just
an overall new
energy, it is like
Christmas every
day! When we sit
by our pond to
relax and unwind
and everything
else in life just
disappears.
8 Employee Pond Showcase
OFFICE MANAGER
DIANE KETCH
The morning sun, barely peeking over neighbours, family and friends until the wee hours of the
the tree tops across the field, has morning.   
already cast a beautiful red glow
Strangers are compelled to stop at the front of our house
onto our 11 x 16 pond. Magic (our cat)
when they hear the water. They are overwhelmed by the
scampers out the door, climbs to the top
whole ambiance. The first comment out of their mouths is
of our waterfalls for a drink and jumps
always – you don’t have to go anywhere, you have everything
across to the flat rock that separates our
you need right here …. so true ….
waterfall in two. She stretches out to catch
the warm rays of the early morning sun and
to spy on the chirping birds. Rex, our
German shepherd, races around the yard to make sure everything
is as it should be, then prances back to the side of the pond for
his first drink of the day. All of the koi in the pond meander over to
him and try to catch his tongue. It’s impossible not to smile. The
aroma of my coffee mingles with the fresh dew-filled air, and
at this very moment, there is not a better place in the world.  
You might think that one would get tired of the same old thing after
seven years. That just doesn’t happen. We dine beside the pond
every evening. We’ve added a gazebo to allow us to sit beside the
pond, no matter what the weather offers. We often play games with
VP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
DAVE KELLY
Ih ave two water features and each of open and the sound of the cascading large flagstone
them is unique in the way we interact water travels throughout the front rooms bridge add a
and enjoy them. The front pond, of the house. My kids, especially my really cool effect
waterfall and stream is the entrance way daughter, love to find the frogs that make making it appear
to my house. It strikes up conversation the pond’s ecosystem their home. the bridge is
and sets the mood for visiting friends or hovering above
At night the lighting in and around
family. The top waterfall is just outside my the water. My wife
the pond brings about a whole new
living room window. We roll the window and I sometimes
setting. Underwater lights beneath the
relax on the front
porch after the
kids are in bed …
a nice way to wind
down the day.
The basalt fountain in the back of my
house is outside our family room and
master bedroom. I love going to sleep at
night and waking in the morning to the
splash of water as it bubbles over the
basalt rocks. The basalt fountain receives
compliments from guests because of
its scaled-down size and location in a
perennial bed just off the deck. The
fountain provides a great sound and
backdrop at night with the lights glowing
off the wet stones … especially when
kicking back around the campfire.
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World's Most
Beautiful Ponds
Employee Pond Showcase 9
SALES REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS - CANADA
GORDON SZOLNYANSZKY ROSS PYNE
This Pondless® Waterfall was installed What I would like people to know about
just in time for my house-warming party water features is you do not have to
about a year and a half ago. After nine have a huge pond to get enjoyment
years working at Aquascape, this is my first from water features. This small water feature
water feature! I enjoy my Pondless® Waterfall on our deck provides not only the soothing
in the winter just as much as I do in the
summer as it’s the focal point of the backyard.
Being in sales, it helps me sell products like
the IonGen™ and LED lights with first hand
experience living the lifestyle. Every tour of my
new home ends with the Pondless® Waterfall!
sound of water, but
provides  comical
relief as well. It is
incredible to watch the
birds come every day
to take a bath and if
the fountain is turned
off the birds stare
at us with a puzzled
look on their faces.
POND MASTER / CANADIAN MASTER TECHNICAL RESOURCE
CHUCK CATTON
Our water feature is our serenity. It brings the country into
our city backyard. Many of our guests comment that our
yard reminds them of a cottage setting. For us, the sound
of the waterfalls helps us unwind at the end of a busy day.
One of the aspects we like most is the opportunity to provide our son
and his friends with nature’s playground. He and his friends are often
catching minnows and tadpoles. In doing so, they inadvertently learn
about ecosystems and metamorphous in our
own backyard. They also enjoy feeding the
fish and racing sticks down the stream. They
even explore water pathways by arranging
and re-arranging rocks to change the flow
of the water. They can manipulate the
paths the water takes and observe visually
as well as listen to the differences.
Our final highlight is the wildlife that visits
our pond. In the spring the singing toads
can be heard down our street. We have
also attracted deer, ducks, and frogs.
Kits
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