I am in the process of constructing a tropical fish pond in my back yard. Now I know that people will want to put this thread in the pond section but hear me out before it gets moved. There is alot of interest on this forum about keeping tropicals in a pond, plus if this thread gets thrown into the pond section only like 5% of the people at aquariacentral will see it. Also this will deal with keeping tropicals, no goldfish here!!!
I started this thread with the one below. It was just a primer to see if there was any interest in tropical ponds. I live near San Jose and Oakland CA so the climate is mild and the sun is strong.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96159
I am going to monitor water temps and once it gets into the mid 60's in go the white clouds to cycle the pond. Right now I have bought the lumber and stain and I just started cutting the wood today. You might wonder why I am buying wood for a pond and it is because I am renting a house and I am not even going to ask the landlord, "Hey do you think its cool if I dig a hole in your yard" Plus I am designing this pond so I can take the water out, remove the liner, unscrew the joints and move the whole thing to my future house. I am going to draw a very simple picture on how the pond will look. The dimensions are 8'x5' and about 22" deep. This will give me 550 gallons to play with. My only pump for circulation will be a mag 5 (300 gpm???). I plan on construting a waterfall also. LOTS of plants emergent and submergent, I plan on trying crypts and other aquarium standards. Lower stocking levels, more natural appearance is the motto of my pond. I doubt that I will have any filtration besides vegatative.... More to come!
I havent really decided what fish I am going to keep in the pond yet, some of what gets put in the pond will go into my 55 gallon. The rest will be sold or traded. I am really leaning towards bosmanis right now but I am up in the air........
I started this thread with the one below. It was just a primer to see if there was any interest in tropical ponds. I live near San Jose and Oakland CA so the climate is mild and the sun is strong.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96159
I am going to monitor water temps and once it gets into the mid 60's in go the white clouds to cycle the pond. Right now I have bought the lumber and stain and I just started cutting the wood today. You might wonder why I am buying wood for a pond and it is because I am renting a house and I am not even going to ask the landlord, "Hey do you think its cool if I dig a hole in your yard" Plus I am designing this pond so I can take the water out, remove the liner, unscrew the joints and move the whole thing to my future house. I am going to draw a very simple picture on how the pond will look. The dimensions are 8'x5' and about 22" deep. This will give me 550 gallons to play with. My only pump for circulation will be a mag 5 (300 gpm???). I plan on construting a waterfall also. LOTS of plants emergent and submergent, I plan on trying crypts and other aquarium standards. Lower stocking levels, more natural appearance is the motto of my pond. I doubt that I will have any filtration besides vegatative.... More to come!
I havent really decided what fish I am going to keep in the pond yet, some of what gets put in the pond will go into my 55 gallon. The rest will be sold or traded. I am really leaning towards bosmanis right now but I am up in the air........