Fish pond deluxe for tanganikans

Well it started out with my water parameters, quite in the range for tanganikyans.

I live and farm in namibia near etosha pan.

The work started on the pond started 2 years ago when i decided it is time to supply the people with good quality fish that no one seems to get hold off in the african countries.

My plan was and still is to breed the tanganykans outside and angels,and the like that needs some little attention inside in my dream setup of 50 1-5/1.2m tanks depending on witch side work better in my garage what we call(stoor) that i take a piece of it.

Back to the dam.

The dam started out small and very back braking.

To work in rocks is not a dream building job and no other better sites as the whole farm is covered in lime stones and thick bush.

We started bringing in loads of thick stumps of tamboti bush to burn and crack the rocks to shape the dam.

This process was at the beginning very slowly and frustrating.
Burning throwing cold water on the rocks to crack it.

Eventually we was on our way to a nice depth.

There it begin its shape , digging here and there braking as we go.

Decisions -decisions my plan originally was to put in on one side a glass and frame to see the fish as i go down stairs in the ground but design problems left out that idea.

Next decision was after finishing the underside of the dam that now has a nice rock bridge and two nice rock surfaces in the inside was the filter.

As my water got allot of phospates and is in general nice hard i decided afetr looking at some om my info i have on pond filters to design a filter around water lillies as the main filter.

At the moment I am stuck on making a seperate water filter with water lilies inside the channels or make a two side filter one the tradional koi pond filter design and the other that work together with the filter with waterlilies combined cleaning the water.

As the dam nears completion there is a few things to do, teh waterfall of 4 meters high and a half to a meter wide that's going to have a small sand filter to the cement and channels filter design.

Everything is going nicely to be put in the waterfall so the waterfall is also a pump house.
Lastly i have to mention i think of to keep the pond warmer if it arise it is going to be to cold , the plan is to use a donkey to keep warm the dam and covers of plastic cattle food with styrofoam inside.

Any ideas,plans are welcome the longer i work the bigger it gets and then when do i get fineshed.:bigsmile:

 

Yes yes yes! Pics please, it sounds really awesome!

 

This post will need to have pics and plenty of them

 

close to what town in NAM are u?

 

well tsumeb im about 30 km's from namatoni

asoon as i get pics and back in nam i will try as the internet there is very bad, once a week i go in town to check emails

 

the insides

as you await the pics lets keep this thread going

the inside is two swimming pool spec pump hydrostar 7.5kw
one for he waterfall and one for the channels.

my plans also include to keep plants in vallis gigantica escetra,nanna.

any body out there speaking afrikaans and want a afrikaans thread open?
:idea:

 

i think most on here have somewhat an understanding of afrikaans, if they are not afrikaans themselves. though its not necessary to do two threads on the same topic just for the language?

 

if u sukkel 2 much with engels just do a multi taal garing

 

thxthink iwil start topics afrikaans and i there is requestsfor english will then als

 

hou diepos dop

wees geduldig het nie rekenaarop oomblik nie isin vir herstel werk.
sodraek kan pso ek fotos!
Sit mens net attachments by of is daar ander maniere op die forum om fros op te sit.
:bigsmile:

 

besig met filter van dam

begin weer oor week/twee weke bou aan die filter ,idee is
wet en dry en dalke 'n aparte plant filter waar ek plante ook groei.
sal fotos einde of begin november opsit.


keep looking going to build filter soon pics would be posted hopefully before the end of the month or beginning november.
thx for your patience.

 

And then it died - morsdood of hoe

 

Wees geldulig

nee sodra ek tyd kry kom iets op ander bedrywighede hou my besig dankie vir die geduldig.

 

Wow I'm afrikaans and I must admit I'm so used to reading in english that it feels extremely akward reading posts in afrikaans. Any pics that you can post though?

 

whats this about ?

 

Gaan oor going about

#this whas origanly started for a big tanganikan fish dam project still in progress farming keep me bussy or dont have work force to fineheshed now

well have some vistors here and crap net will try to load up some of the beginning stuff not much still rough but will give you in idea pl us keep intrest and spread the word 2 pages is way to less!

 

angelfish
you might be interested in knowing that Lake Tanganyika is at its highest surface temperature in centuries.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/1865962/lake_tanganyika_heating_up/index.html

 

Wow Angelfish,love the scale and ambition of your project!!!
Can tell you that keeping Tanganyikans in ponds works a charm...Seen huge outside breeding ponds in Taiwan where the guys breed frontosa and T.moorii - the size,health and colour of these guys is something to see...We often forget how good natural sunlight is for fish...
Good luck with the build and drooling in anticipation of some pics...

 

hi there im back keep looking out in the following week i will have some basic pics of the first stage

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ek sal binne ;n week rowwe fotos op sit van fase 1 van die dam gaan rof met internet hier maar dit is darem aan die gang dankie vir die geduld hulp sal benodig word en raad ek wil die ding so gou as moontlik klaar maak en my idees raak op enige ingeneeurs ,ensv welkom om hand by te sit en iemand wta volgens my beskrywing planne kan op maak dankie.:idea: