Natural Swimming Pools

[Caperguy99]

My wife recently came across the idea of a natural swimming pool and thought it’d be a good way to combine my desire for a koi pond with her wish for a pool.

Anyone have experience with these? Do they work as advertised? Or do they get gunky when you start adding livestock?

 

[Milingu]

They can work as advertised if you either make them very large with plant filtration and only a small amount of koi or you add decent filtration. If you use filtration make sure to only use low voltage pumps otherwise it can be pretty dangerous if you get a short circuit while somebody is swimming in the pool.

 

[Andyroo]

Caperguy99 , how'd it go? ​

Thinking that in NS you might be able to develop an interesting ecosystem beyond koi to help with water-quality - look into sunfish, frogs & salamanders to beef-out the/your interest, and also native FW mussel/clam (check they're not endangered) & FW sponges for filtration, along with a formal filtration something as Milingu is suggesting so you're not too fish-limited. Longnose gar, even (check DFO/NSFW) ​

Try to exclude ducks (most waterfloul, heartbreakingly) as "Duck-itch" can be yucky. Keep towels at-hand, don't air-dry. ​