If you have any energy left, make a small pond elsewhere in the garden for the wildlife and save your bath for Extreme Bathing - Extreme Anything is becomingly increasingly popular and with all the splashing about you will have the sound of water as well as deterring Mosquitos
Post,a pick of your brains please,do you have trouble with the filters blocking? We have a UV and the foam things block daily. Disagree water lilies dislike moving water,the filter has a fountain,we have goldfish. It's a raised pond
No, our system is trouble free. We had to replace some of it after about 20 years, but it doesn't get blocked. We don't clean it out daily, either. I think we did 'overbuy'. It would do a larger pond, but it's great.
Are you sinking the bath into the ground? It makes it easier for access for all kinds of wildlife, rather than having to build up areas at the ends or sides.
We did sink it, which became a shenanigan of mud and sludge! We're on clay and have an insanely high water table so when we had a lot of rain (back in Feb, I think) it was like a low-rent version of Raise the Titanic! So we pulled it out, parked it elsewhere and will build up loads of access points around it. It'll either work or it won't but you don't know til you try!
For wildlife to thrive you will need different levels; perhaps build up one end with pebbles to aid the amphibians entry and exit.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
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