Regular Member Sushi67 Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 Does anyone here have a tropical pond? My mother and I are planning to make a huge pond. At first we thought we didn't have that much room but I measured the cement slab today and found out we had almost twice as much room as we thought. The pond/tank will be built outside my bedroom widow. It will all be above ground. We are thinking its about a 8 feet X 5 feet x 4 feet with a glass/acrylic/plexiglass widow on the front. The window will be 5 feet x 2 feet. If I did my math right the tank should be about 1000 gallons, give or take a bit. I will be aquascaping the tank but only with sand/small gravel mix, plants and drift wood. I want to try to stay away from large rocks but I might get just a few. Fake rock would be great because they would weigh so much. I'm searching for a piece of drift wood that is 3-4 feet long and 2-3 feet tall to be the main center piece of the tank and then a few smaller size pieces. I'm not sure what to do about the top. Easiest thing would be a sealed wood or solid plastic top. At first I thought to make a lift up lid that was half the size of the tank made from wood. But then I came up with a neat idea. Half the top of the tank could be wood and half the top could be plastic. I would screw hinges to the back of the plastic and then to the wood. The plastic part would lift up like on a normal aquarium. If I do that, half the tank would be shaded and half would have a lot of sun light. I could always use a blanket or towel to cover it up if it get to hot. Plants: African Tiger Lotus Java Fern Liverwort Duckweed Hairgrass Hornwort Fish: Arowana Oscars x2 (breeding adults from a small lfs) Senegal Bichir Endlicheri Bichir Black Pacu x3 Silver dollar x9 Leopard Pleco x3 I don't know if I will get all of those fish but over a few years I would like to try each one of those. Does anyone have any links for driftwood? Where to find and clean it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member midnighttrain Posted December 10, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 10, 2006 Where do you live? Will this be kept from freezing over winter? There are often pieces of driftwood listed on aquabid.com that are very large in size. I believe AmazonMoosey sells them for Swampy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Sushi67 Posted December 10, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 10, 2006 I live in So cal so the fish will be left outside over winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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