1400 gallon pond build
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Ohh okay, I see! Do you think you can find out what you use to stick your tile with for me? I'm thinking about demo-ing my pond and building one basically like yours but a little longer. Thanks! It looks great!
Thinset is the usual stuff they use for/under floor tiles, and my wife (architect) tells me it's the standard for tiling pools as well. It's a glorified cement mix of some sort. For pools there's 2 options around here- tiling, as above, which works well but is a little more costly (for pools= bigger), or using something called "Diamond Bright" which is a plasticized hard-render-type material that comes in many colours, but isn't as nice or as durable long-term. Diamond bright can also stain with tannins and/or algae if you don't maintain your pool (or stop chlorinating and add clown loaches), whereas the thinset/grout can be power-washed or scrubbed clean and the tile, well, they're tiles- nothing's going to happen to ceramic tiles.
I love this set-up, young Trinny. Nice, clean & easy. Electricity for this ol' pump is going to be a deal-breaker with the parental-units pretty quick, I'd reckon. Think about setting a couple of submerged planters (1/2'd Angostura barrels are great) with filamentous plants and lilies and a bubbler system to keep everything moving, maybe as a bubble-lift to an exterior (or interior?) sump filter. Then rig the house's storm drains into the pond to get your water changes done hands-off.
Can you tell I've thought about this way way too much?
Keep your mask&snorkel on-hand and post pictures!
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I love this set-up, young Trinny. Nice, clean & easy. Electricity for this ol' pump is going to be a deal-breaker with the parental-units pretty quick, I'd reckon. Think about setting a couple of submerged planters (1/2'd Angostura barrels are great) with filamentous plants and lilies and a bubbler system to keep everything moving, maybe as a bubble-lift to an exterior (or interior?) sump filter. Then rig the house's storm drains into the pond to get your water changes done hands-off.
Can you tell I've thought about this way way too much?
Keep your mask&snorkel on-hand and post pictures!
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It hainna yu profile, Mahyute.
What fish (beyond cats & aro) are you stocking that will eat plants?
See if you can choose plants that won't get eaten- they provide shade (incl. temperature control & light/algae control), O2, remove wastes directly through uptake and indirectly through substrate for bacterial, "condition" water and reduce fish stress through habitat/hides & shading. Plants is good generally, particularly when you've got a relatively low surface area:volume ratio (like you've got here) for gas transfer & unreliable utility companies... as tends to be the Caribbean norm.
What fish (beyond cats & aro) are you stocking that will eat plants?
See if you can choose plants that won't get eaten- they provide shade (incl. temperature control & light/algae control), O2, remove wastes directly through uptake and indirectly through substrate for bacterial, "condition" water and reduce fish stress through habitat/hides & shading. Plants is good generally, particularly when you've got a relatively low surface area:volume ratio (like you've got here) for gas transfer & unreliable utility companies... as tends to be the Caribbean norm.
dont pacu eat plants
and under the shelf they have some shade hehehe and they have a house next to the pond so they get like no sun light till 12
how old are u if your kinda old have u ever seen bob when he was still alive????
k ill try and get a nice big plant but where am i going to put it in the middle???
and under the shelf they have some shade hehehe and they have a house next to the pond so they get like no sun light till 12
how old are u if your kinda old have u ever seen bob when he was still alive????
k ill try and get a nice big plant but where am i going to put it in the middle???
