New Tropical Pond

[jrjerin]

I guess i have a brown thumb since my Heliconia don't look like that.

 

[tuggerd]

I'm having some problems with a worm that burrows into the roots and eats the heliconia's from the inside. The leaves turn brown and the stock basically dies. The poison that they use is way too strong for me to use around the pool area where it could leak into the water system.

I'm also losing pretty much water again. I need to figure out where the leak is. Which is pretty hard during the rainy season with everything so wet.

 

[south coast nelly]

Wow stunning, thanks for documenting every move you made, iam soon moving to colombia,my mother inlaw was on the phone today asking for me to build a nice large pond at herfarm in medellin, so armed with you thread i sent a link,shes in love with it, only got 45ft/50ft space to play with,sure i will manage,,hope i will do ok..

 

[Louie]

If you feel like a dork staring at your pool/ pond not sure what that makes me or all of us that are enjoying just staring at the pictures of your pool/ pond . All of your plants look great, nice pics of the fish too.

lol so true

 

[Jamee]

updates!!!

 

[judgejazzy]

man, you have the taste of art, i start to see your thread page by page, and i am amaze by your dedication to this project, thanks man to allow me to see some beauty of the pond

 

[gangster]

ya...a school of cichla would be awesome! some frontosas would be cool as well

 

[Louie]

I'm having some problems with a worm that burrows into the roots and eats the heliconia's from the inside. The leaves turn brown and the stock basically dies. The poison that they use is way too strong for me to use around the pool area where it could leak into the water system.

I'm also losing pretty much water again. I need to figure out where the leak is. Which is pretty hard during the rainy season with everything so wet.

Did you find the leak?

 

[Scubarod]

WOW thanks for posting is womderful project

 

[tuggerd]

Finally an update! I think we found the leak. We think that its in the tubing to the water outlets around the entrance of the pool. I covered them with plastic and the water level seems to be holding. This could mean that I plug up all of the holes except for one. I haven't clean the pool for about a week and its still pretty clean. Its a little greener then usual because the pump that is connected to the outlets also runs through the main UV light. For the last two weeks the only UV light that has been running is the 25 watt. Its doing a pretty good job for being a 23,000 gallon pool.

I'm so happy with the heliconia's starting to flower. I can hardly see the fence now.

The African cichlids are starting to eat by our feet in the water. Pretty Cool!