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Thought you might like to see an indoor pond/waterfall that I did for a restaurant in DeKalb, Illinois this summer. It is made of 28 separate pieces of lightweight concrete with a preformed solid plastic pond. It is composed of materials demonstrated in the video post "Faux Rock Tutorial" Oct 7 2008.

This is the base of the project


These are the rough pieces being added


This is the roughed out project before final coloring


These are finished pieces at the restaurant ready for installation


This is assembly in progress


This is the project assembled and operating


This is me and the project as it appears at night


It uses a 210 gph pump, sponge filter, 50 gallon pond, six underwater lights and houses a half dozen tropical fish.

Don Perry

How fun. What do you use to color the rock? Great work.

It is colored with a combination of integral concrete pigment added at the time of mixing, acid stain used after curing, and diluted latex paint using a spatter technique. You can see the entire process of making fake rock, coloring and sealing it in a six-part video series posted on Oct 7 in the pond section entitled, "A Faux Rock Tutorial".

Don