DROP EYE POND patients

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badreverend;4375120; said:
the 31" and 18" silver aros share the 600g pond with 2x18" floridas, 3x10" albino IRs, c. batrachus, 9 or 10 various sized and type plecos, new guppies daily in the filter and pond, and a green sunfish-

the filter has a 3/4 HP pool pump pushing it, and the water drops from the filter from around 18" up, so there is some pretty good water movement from it-


aznkidang, its worked many more times than it hasnt for me out there- but something hit me earlier today- there is probably several ways or combination of events for an aro to get DE... I wonder if DE pond only rehabilitates certain ones- tough to prove or disprove, especially when the background of the fish isnt always known-

I made a video of the pond with some narrating, and it was good while it was on my phone,but it looks sideways on my computer, and the rotate keys arent highlighted or working, does any one know how to right it?
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Sounds like quire the site too see, your pond. Hope this works out on the DE would love to know that there are ways to correct the DE.

Go ahead and post the video, I'll just turn the monitor on it's side or upside down...whatever it takes:D
 
Just upload the vid on youtube then embed it in MFK
 
Looks good,Jim.
 
Nice pond. Have you ever considered expanding it a bit. Seems like you have got plenty of room.
 
Pond looks good:thumbsup: I would like to eventually build a pond in our backyard, but unfortunatly it wouldn't be tropical.
 
thanks Hao:thumbsup:

Aro1- that is the expansion, the picture shows pre-expand- it was 2 smaller preform ponds(1 smaller preform and 1 150 gallon cement mixing tub(which is now the current filter)) connected by a waterfall, but dug them out about 2 years ago- I do have the real estate to have a bigger pond, but besides the 600g pond there is a 300g and a 115g growout inside-;)

but more importantly is the fact that any bigger and the DE wont get fixed- its a very precise science I have here, fixing eyes and what not has to be right on the money, or bam! they drop farther with a vengeance:grinno:

Brian, before I went tropical, in one pond I had natives like green sunfish,channel cats, and gar- I still have a 5 year old sunfish, my oldest fish-
in the bottom pond was fantails, especially celestial eyed, they never get DE! if I went cold water again, it would be the celestials again, but this time their pondmates would definitely be sturgeon and paddlefish, that would be pretty badass

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Good deal then the pond seemed narrow. If that is what fixes Drop Eye that is totally OK.

It is possibly to have a tropical pond during the summer in some states. However you would have to have a tank for the winter. God knows I dreamed of keeping Arowanas, Arapaima, Peacock Bass and Pacus in my families old 12 acre Ranch pond I just had no way to collect them when winter approached. For winter I did not have the space for adult Arapaima or Pacus.
 
thats another thing nice about this sized pond- in the winter time, I put 2 or 3 300w heaters in and Im good- for good measure and my piece of mind, Ive been putting a PVC framed greenhouse over the pond- its only around 2' tall but holds the heat in like a mutha- this year I was thinking about running some coils in the filter from the house hot water- it maybe cheaper than the heaters-
heres a shot of last winters greenhouse

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