w to set up a kiddie pool to fish pond step-by-step

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Candiru
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Jan 27, 2010
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Hallo all,
I had a thread with my pond but all my pics gonne from my photobucket account by a Monster mistake..
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=310476
So i'm gonna fix that and i'll show in a thread all the steps i did to give life to my indoor pond...:popcorn:

1st of all i took a 1.000G INTEX metal frame pool...(after the accident):D

The pool should set up in an insulating matterial that i used to cover the floor (with this should be easyer to keep the temperature IN the water when the winter commes):



..now it was time to set the pool up:



...and we startting filling it up:


...the filtration was ready and the 2 filters start working emediatly!:

1st filter is a Tetra pond PF10.000 and takes water from an eheim 1262 pump 3.400l/h.Inside that filter there is biobals,porous rock,plastic fiber and spongue:



2nd filter is a Bakki shower and i used big plastic pots to make it and PVC hose.This filter is takking water from a fountain pump 10.000l/h.Inside there are bioballs,porous rock,ceramic culinders,scrubbies and plastic fiber:



I'm also using 2 eheim 2260 full with scrubbies, spongue and ceramis, but i think is unnecacery..

Next is a heatting system threw from boiler but i'm working on it now, so don't have pic yet...i used some tank heaters for the first month but i don't need them now...i'm gonna need heat in about Octomber.

And then week by week the stock beggun...
I think is better to see the stock with vids!:popcorn:

1st week: 1 paroon shark, 2 leptobarbus hovenii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QyTpANqUg

2nd week: 2 RTC's (+ transfer vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_4pxpAdVsg

3ed week: 2 silver AROW's (+transfer vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO1IZa0JqwQ

4th week: 1 Pacu, 1 flagtail (1 oscar + 1 common pleco added somewhere in the midle!):D

The pool covered by net cuse arows are the best jumpers as we know and finally....my fish are swimming!!!!:grinno:



Pool is full stocked and everything working perfect since May.


I hope a lot of people find this healpfull as i found many healpful threads and so much knowlege in here!
Thak you all for the result that you healped me have now!!!:headbang2
 
Looking good, keeping it simple it not aesthetically the best way but certainly works, congrats
 
Thanks everyone!
Nothing from all this would happend without our incredible MFK!!....:headbang2

...and i've donne a mistake, the pool plus the filtration is about 1,700gals (5,000ltrs)...:)
 
this looks good
 
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