saltwater pond

[troppond]

Does anyone know if it is possible to make my 12x7x2.5-3 ft deep pond saltwater?

 

[Pazzoman]

Anything is possible

I forgot who said this in a thread "You have to pay to play"...I currently live by the quote...and probably every person on mfk.

 

[Slag]

If I did my math right, that would be around 1900 gallons. Pour in a little under 11 5 gallon buckets of Instant Ocean and you have a salt water pond.

The difficulty would be in keeping the salinity right due to evaporation. You would have to have some sort of system for fresh water top off.

 

[TMartinez]

I've seen salt water ponds before. There is a koi place near here who converted one of their stock tanks over to a salt pond and he has coral, fish, inverts, the works in there...

Also they make auto top off systems...

 

[Slag]

How do they deal with rain lowering the salinity?

 

[stopsharkfinning]

the pond has to have a roof over it otherwize as you stated the salinty would drop to low the other issue you will have is heating unless you decide to keep coldwater animals, i currently have outdoor salt pond it has a roof over and is 4000liters i use 3 300 watt heaters 24/7 in winter to keep water at 23% cel . my electricity bill is horrendous

 

[TMartinez]

Exactly there is a roof over it...