my big tank 10 000 litres

[smicko]

Hi all I thought I would put up a pic and stocklist of my pond for anyone that's interested. It is 14ft round, 1 metre deep and holds 10 000 litres. It still runs the original pool filter which is way small at 1200 lph.

It has alot of rock piles, caves and cocos palm berry frongs for protection and homes.

Traditional pond fish:

4x 15cm comets mixed colours, a few rainbows mixed, a few paradise fish

Americans:

15cm pair brasiliensis, 2x 15cm fenestratus, 8x convicts 3-15cm, 10 longfin bristlenose 5-12cm albino and common

Africans;

10cm trio crimson tides, 5x5cm electric yellows, heaps of adult kribensis

Shrimp:

A ton of local glass shrimp, a ton of red cherries.

Plants;

Taro, thin val, corksvrew val, watersprite, duckweed, frogbit,veregated swords and the big green one at the back lol. Dont know name.

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There may be more but that's all I can think of for now. I am always adding and changing stock and so far everyone gets along fine without a single death so far.

I am thinking of growing some murray river cod next summer but I will remove all except the convicts and kribensis as they breed heaps and will provide a food source

[JPN07]

Now, THATS A POND!!! Awesome smicko. Poor shrimps though, they gonna get smash by all those fishes LOL.

[smicko]

The shrimp actually do alright. Ive had it setuprfor about 12 months and they are still breeding. The trick is make sure you have thousands before you add fish. They are also very well fed lol.

Cheers mick

[kunzy]

nice pond man, one day when i own my own house ill have the same:D

[Garnelchen]

I really see the advantages of living in a tropical climate! I would have a pond full of endlers. :anonymous: But here all I could have is goldfish, I suppose.

[smicko]

I forgot them their is a good size colony of black bar endlers in there.

Cheers mick

[Garnelchen]

I forgot them their is a good size colony of black bar endlers in there.

Now I'm REALLY jalous! :sorrow:

[mr_c265]

I had some Endlers in a pond down here in Sydney, they didn't do well into the winter though, only got about 10 left in the pond.

Of course my pond isn't 10,000L haha

[ineke]

awesome! We used to have a huge above ground pool and every winter I would take comets from the petshop i worked in and grow them out- obviously we didn't treat the water during winter, they grew huge . We pumped the water out at the end of winter and caught out the fish made a tidy profit and cleaned and refilled the pool. couldn't do it now couldn't afford the water bill.

[OzShrimp]

that is pretty impressive :) do you modify the pool filter or anything ?

[smicko]

that is pretty impressive :) do you modify the pool filter or anything ?

I haven't modified the filter.... yet. I have thought of a few mods, but so far I haven't had a problem with water parameters. Although i am expecting a rise in n02, n03 over winter as the plants slow down abit. The first mod will be a floting basket of aqua clay that the return will pump into. If that doesn't suffice I will remove the basket and pump all the water through a 100mm pipe filled with aquaclay and some winter veges.

[2OFUS]

Make it a marine setup and throw a reef shark or 2 in there :)

[Squiggle]

Looks awesome dude, very cool, I'd love to have fun with a pond like that one day :victorious:

[JohnH]

I could set something like that up in my back yard and go ice skating in winter.