I really appreciate all of the support.  This pond/pool project has a lot of factors coming together to make this whole thing happen.  I think it all started with my Biologist father.  My sister has actually written me a letter asking I my wife divorced me yet and that my dad owes her an apology because these are his genes that are being expressed with this project.  I spent countless summers in Minnesota tagging along behind him while he was censusing birds and studying the prairies.  I would find the closest pond, river or marsh and start looking for frogs, fish, crayfish, or whatever.  I was always fascinated with water and whatever was in it.  Now I'm all grown up and I still have that desire to be around water.  The only difference is that I have a wife and two little kids.  My wife wanted a regular chlorine pool with a heater, zero algae, and zero or less animal life.  I wanted the largest fish possible and the opportunity to be right next to them.  I guess you will all see how this project  evolves and what we eventually end up with.   Oh by he way,  I can't figure out how to get the frican favorite fish by my avatar changed.  Like I just really love the Crayfish.  I just saw that it changes. Now its the Senegal Bichir.