New Tropical Pond

tuggerd

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I have about 10 little ones. I don't even know the species. I'll put some african cichlids in there when things balance out. I think it will be fun to see those colorful fish in there for my kids.
 

tuggerd

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Sorry about the photos being a little dark. I start work at 6 am. The water is still very clear. I see that a little algae is starting to form on the bottom of the rocks. Nothing too serious though.

Here's my vacuum tube. A coupld times a day I'm running the pump with the other finer filter to give the cleaning a little boost. Seems to be working great. The only problem with this system is that I have to get in the water when I want to hook up the hose to vacuum.

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Muske

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A couple of goldfish/Koi will eat any worms.
 

jerzyperson

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what fish are going in this pond? and are you going to be swimming with them, i assume but just making sure lol
 

Mr. Grumpy Gills

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those blue tiles on the pond give it great preception of depth.:thumbsup:
It came along great from beginig to the end.
I enjoyed this thread.
 

tuggerd

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I just did a cleaning of my barrel filter. I put another layer of finer rocks to clean the water a little bettter and catch the finer stuff. I thought these rocks were pretty clean. Guess not!

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