Pond Installation and Pond Construction Crews of Exotic Aquatics

Exotic Aquatics have been recognized nationwide as one of the country's top Koi pond, water garden and disappearing pondless waterfall builders for eight consecutive years! Exotic Aquatics is an Exclusive Authorized Dealer/Distributor for The Pond Digger Brand Water Treatments, Premium Fish Foods and Pond Supplies and stocks a wide variety of water garden and Koi pond construction and installation equipment & maintenance supplies. Exotic Aquatics supports beginning pond builders to advanced Certified Aquascape Contractors, do it yourself homeowners and homeowners looking to hire qualified pond builders across America through our on-line web presence and our state of the art Koi Pond Construction headquarters in Redlands, California.

The pond installation crews at Exotic Aquatics better know as, The Pond Diggers™, have been certified by Firestone Specialty Products and was one of the founding members of the Certified Aquascape Contractors program back in 2003.

Exotic Aquatics has taught do-it-yourselfers, pond contractors, Certified Aquascape Contractors, garden clubs, men, women and children alike, proper pond construction and pond design techniques through Pond Construction Seminars events and Ponds for Schools seminars that they host each year. The Pond Diggers™ speak for garden clubs, water garden and Koi pond societies, schools, rotary clubs and quite frankly any passer by that wishes to learn more about Koi ponds and water gardening.

In 2006 The Pond Diggers™ have set new records in Ponds for Schools™ community service events. Exotic Aquatics has hosted seven Ponds for Schools™ events, building disappearing pondless waterfalls and ponds for kids, before summer break and still have three more of these events planned this fall!

Summer of 2005, Eric Triplett a.k.a. The Pond Digger™ as the team captain, led his regional Certified Aquascape Contractor team to a first-place victory in a North American Waterfall Building Competition, held during a Pond Business Industry Convention in Illinois.

Through The Pond Diggers™ involvement in the Certified Aquascape Contractor Program, The Pond Digger™ assisted the Certified Aquascape Contractor program to help create a water garden for the P. Allen Smith show in Arkansas, on PBS. This segment initially aired May 2004.

In the spring of 2004, The Pond Digger™ with the team of "Certified Aquascape Contractor" review board members to build a water feature display for the Epcot Centers, International Flower and Garden Show at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

Exotic Aquatics has raised over twenty-five thousand dollars for local charities and non-profit organizations over the years with their annual Pond Tour For The Cure™ Charity Event, Moonlight Pond Tour™ For The Cure and Desert Pond Tours fund raising events.

The Pond Diggers™, have appeared in two ABC TV Extreme Home Makeovers, and have hosted more than two dozen different Ponds for Schools programs throughout Riverside and San Bernardino counties, installing both disappearing pondless waterfalls, water gardens and ponds for kids.

Exotic Aquatics specializes in constructing ecologically friendly, low-maintenance waterscapes for fish and aquatic plants, but more importantly, for people!

A Note From The Pond Digger

I just blink an eye and another year goes by and as I look back and think about the earth we have moved as a company building waterscapes and the accomplishments we’ve made over the last decade, I have to smile and think back to 16 years ago. I was just 21 years old and I left my respectable, well paying job as a journeyman carpenter to chase my dreams.

I’m here to tell you, dreams do come true if you take the time to outline them, roll up your sleeves and go for it. But then again, I’m the kind of guy that slides into second base headfirst even when I'm losing 10 to nothing. All the way, everyday, No Holds Barred!

"I love building waterscapes, pondless waterfalls, ponds and streams, and I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to wake up every morning and do what I love to do because I rolled up my sleeves 16 years ago and chased my dreams." As I finish writing our organizations profile listening to one of my favorite songs by Edwin McCain, I Could Not Ask For More, our accomplishments really hit home.

Make no mistake about it; I have a special place in my heart for all of my customers, clients, and friends, who believed in my sometimes crazy but always passionate ideas! I have become The Pond Digger and a true businessman, by simply chasing my dreams. Take my advice; Work hard, laugh often, one day try sliding into second base headfirst, but take the time to stop to smell the roses and whatever you do, follow your dreams……

Eric Triplett
The Pond Digger
Exotic Aquatics