My Tropical Pond

[tuggerd]

These picture aren't in order but I think you'll get the idea. This is my 3,500 gallon guapote pond. I presently have about 30 1 to 4 pound guapote's. The largers ones are developing beautiful fourescent blue fins. I just had the water tested and its at 124 coli particles. I read that under 150 is swimming quality. I suppose because the quapote are active fish they "run cleaner" than a fish like a koi. This whole project has inspired my next pond that should be aroun 25,000 gallons.

[tuggerd]

If anyone could help me get a hold of some peacock bass I would really appreciate it. They would be for the 25,000 gal. project.

[The Amazonian]

Nice project makes me want to go to Aruba again!

[jojo_nature]

wow, Im drooling right now.

[Red Devil]

These picture aren't in order but I think you'll get the idea. This is my 3,500 gallon guapote pond. I presently have about 30 1 to 4 pound guapote's. The largers ones are developing beautiful fourescent blue fins. I just had the water tested and its at 124 coli particles. I read that under 150 is swimming quality. I suppose because the quapote are active fish they "run cleaner" than a fish like a koi. This whole project has inspired my next pond that should be aroun 25,000 gallons.

paradise....so beautiful.... awesome project.. so natural looking..

[l3raD]

Nice...

[RexFish]

I wouldnt mind that in my back yard, nice work looks good

[tuggerd]

My ultimate goal is to have a swimming pond with the guapote swimming next to me. I've got the water quality the way I want it with only 3,500 gallons and 30 guapotes. I should have better numbers at 25,000 gallons. I'm useing natural swimming pond designs with natural plants doing most of the filtering. I will have a couple UV light sterilizers a 5,000 gallon skimmers with a water fall for aeration. I hope that the filteration area will provide enough cover for the Guapote fry to stay alive longer than appetizer size.

[benzjamin13]

Gorgeous Pond! And since you're in Costa Rica, no heater! Very nice!

[Nic]

wow....awesome set up... throw a few rays in there as well....

[GroggyCichlid]

Fantastic! How about some photos of the fish in there?

[tuggerd]

To tell you the truth,, I've never seen pictures of Guapotes like these. For some reason the females get pretty beat up when breeding in the rocks. The males are beautiful. There fins radiant blue with leapord spots on their backs. I'll try and get some better ones later. It's the rainly season here in Costa Rica and there is so much glare.

[dlp40]

From what I can see of the fish they are Parachromis Dovii. The largest Cichlid in the Central america area. Nice fish!!

[King Edward]

:headbang2

[ceeej31]

wow a pond full of dovii, you sir are a very lucky man :)
a 25,000 gallon pond huh, if i were you I wouldent stop at peacock bass with that size pond you could get an arapima as well:headbang2

[Arturo]

Wow! very nice. Makes me want to live over there. :)

[tuggerd]

Remember I still plan to swim in there with my kids. I don't want to lose a foot, or even worse. I'm still lobbying with my wife for the project so I need to push as many uses for the pond as possible.

I havn't seen any pictures of other quapote that even come close to having this brite blue tale.
I havn't notice them being too aggressive. I have the 20 quapotes with about 20 other smaller national breeds. All of the species seem to be breeding nicely. When the fry get about an inch long they seem to dissapear.

[qwesty]

Amazing pond, makes me wish it was warm enough here for one

[Yanbbrox]

Very nice

[Red Devil]

very beautiful

[chesterthehero]

very nice

[lambari de sanga]

It´s not very common to see tropical ponds, at least here in Brazil, despite the good weather for that. I liked very much these pics! Nice pond!

[GroggyCichlid]

Thanks for the photos. Nice Dovii.

[KurseD]

sweet setup! looks very natural. what kinda lighting you gonna set up for night?

[gangster]

bump. Lets see an update...how big are the guapote's now? The 25,000 is coming along nicely.

[Zebra]

I would LOVE that in my backyard.

[tcarswell]

Amazing pond, makes me wish it was warm enough here for one
No kidding. Beautiful pond! A 25000 gallon that would be sweet. Make sure to put some RTC or TSN in there! plenty of P bass and maybe some Dats??

[carnivorekeeper]

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oool

[Matt724]

After seeing all these beautiful ponds here on MFK, you guys have really convinced me to move to Costa Rica once i get out of college. And first thing I'm doing is building a huge pond! YEa!

BTW, amazing pond, if you didn't get the hint in the first paragraph. lol