Here is the pond in its first month planted in late spring 2013 with crypts, hygrophilia, ludwigia, cabomba and hornwort. Yes it is a rubbermaid tote lol. It was filled with assorted guppies platys and pond snails.
Here is the pond by the end of the summer, all the plants lush green and have exploded with growth through out the summer. And so did the guppy population.