For Immediate Release:7/3/2020 Modern Design Aquascaping  Press Release:  ARTISTS OF THE YEAR AT MODERN  DESIGN AQUASCAPING TAKE PART IN 4 DAY POND BUILD FOR SHAQUILLE ONEAL Knoxville, Tennessee locals Father and Son team, John & Tristan Adams of Modern Design Aquascaping were one of seven National Artists of the Year asked to help pull off a Herculean effort for NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal. Building for 4 days in the pouring rain (random polar vortex) this group worked at least 60 hours! Installing a beach area, fire pit, a custom Superman logo urn, and some ..read more

This is the first video in the Water Feature Design series! It's to help you design a better water feature experience.  Let's get started with calculating water in motion! Watch this video and I'll walk you thought understanding the importance of water in motion.  Watch the video! WATER IN MOTION IN PONDS WITH SKIMMERS!!  ​Part two of the Water Feature Design Series! This video is covers water in motion in ponds with skimmers!  Today we're walking through what the skimmer is and how much water you need moving through it for optimal operation!  Watch the ..read more

See a group of artists build a beautiful pond in Australia @ Wildlife HQ! This video will show you a team of pond builders from across the world building an Aquascape Ecosystem pond in a Zoo Exhibit. Mixed throughout the construction footage, you will get: 1)Some cool footage of John Adams meeting some wildlife at the zoo. 2) Ed The Pond Professor tells you about the feature and its purpose. 3) Patrick Handley of Waterscapes Australia tells about why he chose the location 4) Greg Wittstock A.K.A. “The Pond Guy” gives a quick speech. 5)John explains why he gets so much from these cool bui ..read more

The Modern Design Aquascaping team is in Uganda, Africa, working on a project that will have a lasting impact on generations of kids to provide sustainable drinking water. Thirty thousand gallons of water is captured several times a year that will change the lives of a lot of kids. This project was made possible by the people willing to come and take up a shovel and the donors who funded the project to come together and make a difference. The video will show all the hard work that went into this project and see the potential of the thousands of lives we’ve changed. This experience changed our ..read more

The Modern Design Aquascaping team is in Nashville, TN, for a Koi pond overhaul, demolish & rebuild project! The homeowner had an existing pond that was old and outdated and needed a refurbish. This video we’re going to walk through the challenges we faced with the existing structure and large rocks to give this pond a fresh look.  One of the biggest challenges we faced was logistics. The area we had to work with was very compressed due to the pool located near the pond, which presented a problem when you need to have heavy equipment in such a tight area. Another element to the r ..read more

Part 1 ​Modern Design Aquascaping is walking you through a recent project in Nashville, TN where we created an intake bay for a farm pond.  This is detailed video of how are team created and transformed this existing water feature with a behind the scenes look.  This builds starts out with the needed excavation. clearing all the needed work area to have a flat and level area to make out where the custom intake bay will be placed.  one of the most important things for the homeowner is that the pond is swimmable, which means our team removed the snapping turtles from the pond. that's h ..read more

​Modern Design Aquascaping wants to warn you that the video your about to watch is scary good fun. Why stop at the traditional Halloween decorations at the front door and walkways of your home or business? We're giving one of our water features a Halloween makeover for a spooky yet awesome transformation all in the spirit of tricks and treats.  We pulled out all the stops this Halloween to decorate one of our display water features with flowers, skeletons, pumpkins and more. This was a fun way to get our family involved in our passion for water feature by enlisting there help to carve ..read more

Modern Design Aquascaping for Part 2 of the pondless waterfall. Today we’re going to walk through the construction of this waterfall. If you missed part 1 go back and watch! The video go through finishing the basin, construction of the retaining wall, placement and leveling of the stones and more.  We begin with the retaining wall and as you can see we used large boulders to form the structure of the retaining wall. These boulders were meticulously placed to give the best astatic effect for this water feature.     Now that the retaining wall is in we brought in the soil and to begin s ..read more

​Modern Design Aquascaping’s goal is to educate and inspire the world about ponds and waterfalls! We’re revisiting Maryville, Tennessee to one of the unique ponds we’ve built it’s a hybrid pond. This pond is a mix of a traditional Koi, Ecosystem, and Recreational pond.. like we said it’s a hybrid.  How did we set up this hybrid?   You have the exposed bottom with the natural stone border around the outside edge of the pond and gives it that ecosystem pond look. The pond is stocked with koi fish and aquatic plants. Also, the pond has jets, so the pond has good circulation around the pon ..read more

Modern Design Aquascaping is in Knoxville, TN revisiting one of our favorite Koi ponds we’ve ever built! We’re going to show you the amazing features of this pond including negative or zero edges, wetland filters, fish caves, and of course the fish. The Negative Edge or Zero Edge: The carnivorous plants are the beginning of the negative edge and give you the most pristine water quality in a pond because that water is falling off the surface of the pond. This means you’ll never have that collection of bubbles or anything else that gets trapped on the surface of the water. Also, the nega ..read more