i dunno if anyone else has ever stared at their pool and thought i should turn this into a giant aquarium :laugh::nuts: i was just wondering if this is actually possible with the use of the pool filter etc? and what bio types anyone would try with that? just a random thought haha
erecting a greenhouse around it? and perhaps some form of heating... but what? although if ur pool has a solar heating system with it...
If you could control the temperature of the solar heating.... then awesome! Or else, I've heard of someone heating their pond with 3 Eheim Jager 300's.
haha ok so i guess it could be done... so what fish then? i think when my parents move out i know whats gonna happen to the swimming pool... haha
African Chichlids.... I wouldn't go with any fish that have a very strict pH tolerance since it would take a lot to change the pH of 2000L of water and maintain that level, unless you have buckets of Sodium Phosphate lying around. Would be cool to have a shoal of discus and about 50 pairs of Apistogramma :amuse:
In Durban there was an old dude named Ernie. He had an old style house with a pool. He invited me to see it one day and I was blown away. In it he had mollies, guppies, plates and of all things, bettas. All lived there naturally and all bred naturally even the bettas. He never fed them, nor was the pump running. Water was green and topped with rain water and was full of different plants. Ever now and then, he put in his pool net and put what he caught, plants and all into a bucket and sold it to LFS's. This is how he made a living. Was amazing to see.
You could use reticulated black hose or piping laying in the sun with your water circulating through it to raise temperatures in winter, a trick l learned while dabbling in aquaponics. Plus cover the whole thing with plastic sheeting, something like my buddy did here:Francoises Reservoir Fish House.wmv - YouTube
Yep! I've thought about it a lot! My theory is, you wouldn't be able to view the fish particularly well, so using it as a "display tank" would be a bit of a waste of resources. My ideal plan would be to make it as natural as possible- fill it with branches and leaf litter - run a good filtration system, run all the water through a bed of growing semi-aquatics, and use it to try and breed something that's really hard to breed in captivity. Heckels or Altums. Of course since I'm fantasising I'd be able to buy a whole lot, dump them in there, and let them form their own pairs and territories.
we had a pool we turned in to a koi pond the big issue comes in with trying to treat 15 000l of water
are koi exciting to keep in a system like that? id want like a arrowana or those biiig fish that normally require gigantic tanks!
Read this a while back and it immediatley sprung to mind when reading this thread. Although this one is more of an aquaponics project than an ornamental fish pond.
