Fishkeeping - Swimming Pools

Erik wrote:
Dean Krick wrote:
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I think it has been years since I checked out rec.ponds. Just came on
again this morning -- and noticed this Swimming Pool thread.

Spring has me excited again about my swimming pool to pond conversion. I
took the step many years ago. The pond has been maturing very nicely and
seems to be very healthy.

It's shown at: www.kilk.com/pond (with new pictures)

I'm one of those who wanted a real pond look -- with a natural shape and
flower beds. So I filled in the sides of the pool with layers of soil
and essentially built a pond within the pool. Although I have Koi for
enjoyment, I'm not raising them or specially caring for them. The main
focus for me was the pond beauty itself -- which I think made drove my
choices in how I did this.

Wonderful! Beautiful! Congrats! You give me a new blast of enthousiasm
and eagerness to get at it again (as the ice slowly melts). I am in the
second year of trying to "create", along with my trusty life partner of
course, something natural looking with a large hole-in-the-ground pond (
60 x 30 x 7 feet deep stillwater). I have forgone the Koi and stocked
speckled trout instead and they're doing fine. They're about a foot
long after the first year. Now if I could only make it look as nice and
welcoming as yours! NICE job!

You've given me hope that I may make something natural looking from it
yet. At least, the hole was dug keeping in mind that, once the fill was
placed for the necessary lanscaping, that the hole would become a pond
(so the shape is better to start with than a pool). Hopefully, in a
few years, as plants grow in and we get more time to move rocks, etc.,
it will take shape...

I cleaned up my website and added at least a couple updated pictures
just taken yesterday.

I hope to stick around rec.ponds this season. Talk to you later.

Erik