Sal****er backyard pond ?

I've done that with 33 gallon containers for raising brine
shrimp, and will be doing that with a pond liner soon. The
problems you will face is extreme salinity changes, and
lots of nutrients. Brine shrimp hold up well with this,
but doing a nice salt water fish pond could be a real
challenge.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pszemol wrote on 5/6/2006 12:12 PM:
Anybody came up with an idea to build a fish pond but to fill
it with salt water instead of freshwater ? What animals/plants
would fit nicely such a sal****er body in Wisconsin/Chicago area ?

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message ...
I've done that with 33 gallon containers for raising brine
shrimp, and will be doing that with a pond liner soon. The
problems you will face is extreme salinity changes, and
lots of nutrients. Brine shrimp hold up well with this,
but doing a nice salt water fish pond could be a real
challenge.

Where the "nutrients" are coming from ?

Where I live (Chicago area) it would be extra-challenge
due to extreme temperature swings between winter-summer.

From the yard. Bugs and other creatures falling in the
water, grass clipping, leaves. With a fresh water pond you
can have sizable plants growing in and out of the water to
help with nutrient export. With a fresh water pond you
will have muck that quickly builds up at the bottom of the
pond. This is not so bad in a fresh water pond, but
imagine that in a salt water pond. It would be fun to try
though. I got my brine shrimp pond partly dug over the
weekend. The water in that will be 3 times as salty as the
ocean.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pszemol wrote on 5/7/2006 11:05 AM:
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
...
I've done that with 33 gallon containers for raising brine shrimp, and
will be doing that with a pond liner soon. The problems you will face
is extreme salinity changes, and lots of nutrients. Brine shrimp hold
up well with this, but doing a nice salt water fish pond could be a
real challenge.

Where the "nutrients" are coming from ?

Where I live (Chicago area) it would be extra-challenge
due to extreme temperature swings between winter-summer.