Turning pool into a pond... worst idea

[spiff44]

Residual chemicals in the system maybe?

 

[SfirtenK]

It seems like a good idea for everyone who buys a house with a pool they do not plan on using for themselves. Any thought about why it failed?

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Hard to tell without more info from OP about water tests and conditions. Since it was a 2014 thread I'm sure this info is long lost.

 

[Giant Val]

I turned my in ground pool into a pond several years ago. Its going fine. Its got heaps of fish. The only time I lost a significant number of fish is when a cormorant visited a few years ago and ate hundreds of barbs,

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I turned my in ground pool into a pond several years ago. Its going fine. Its got heaps of fish. The only time I lost a significant number of fish is when a cormorant visited a few years ago and ate hundreds of barbs,

What else did you have in there? That must be pretty neat if you had hundreds of barbs.

 

[Giant Val]

Hi there's Rosy Barbs in reasonable, Golden Barbs also breed well, Tinfoil Barbs (haven't bred), Zebra and Leaopard Danios, Giant Danios, Pearl Danios, Buenos Aires Tetras, Red-bellied Tetras, Silver Dollars, Paradise Fish, Black sharks, Yoyo loaches, Bristle-noses, Bronze and Peppered Corydoras, Crimson-spotted Rainbowfish, Pacific Blue-eyes, Geo braziliensis. Someone gave me a few Jack Dempseys a couple of years ago. They are a nuisance they breed in big numbers and eat a lot of the smaller fish. I catch a lot and destroy them, but I think all the smaller fish are reducing in numbers and gradually I'll only have the bigger fish which is a pity. It wasn't difficlt to set up. I just stopped chlorinating the pool, put in a heap of plants and wood, then fish.

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Hi there's Rosy Barbs in reasonable, Golden Barbs also breed well, Tinfoil Barbs (haven't bred), Zebra and Leaopard Danios, Giant Danios, Pearl Danios, Buenos Aires Tetras, Red-bellied Tetras, Silver Dollars, Paradise Fish, Black sharks, Yoyo loaches, Bristle-noses, Bronze and Peppered Corydoras, Crimson-spotted Rainbowfish, Pacific Blue-eyes, Geo braziliensis. Someone gave me a few Jack Dempseys a couple of years ago. They are a nuisance they breed in big numbers and eat a lot of the smaller fish. I catch a lot and destroy them, but I think all the smaller fish are reducing in numbers and gradually I'll only have the bigger fish which is a pity. It wasn't difficlt to set up. I just stopped chlorinating the pool, put in a heap of plants and wood, then fish.

That must be one heck of a "tank" any pictures?

 

[krichardson]

I turned my in ground pool into a pond several years ago. Its going fine. Its got heaps of fish. The only time I lost a significant number of fish is when a cormorant visited a few years ago and ate hundreds of barbs,

Yes please share with us any photos you have....might as well since the thread starter appears to have moved on and is long gone.I suspect that those "fish experts" did him wrong.

 

[kendragon]

Yes please share with us any photos you have....might as well since the thread starter appears to have moved on and is long gone.I suspect that those "fish experts" did him wrong.

"fish expert"....who dat?

 

[Giant Val]

Hi guys, Took a photo of the pool. but can't get decent photos of any fish. Sorry..