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04-19-2006, 12:23 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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Location: Pittsboro, NC
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Salt Water ponds
has anybody setup one of these? i am toying with making a petting zoo pond in the basement and was wondering if anybody has done or seen one. i have a basic idea on what needs to be done, just looking for ideas and examples.
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04-19-2006, 03:18 PM
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little fishy
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Goto saltwaterfish.com and check with the mod broomer. He has a huge multiple thousand gallon lagoon in his basement.
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04-23-2006, 05:19 PM
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moddin aint easy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: newnan, ga
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there is a pond in one of the lfs in atlanta, i prefer tanks, something about it looked un-natural.
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04-23-2006, 05:31 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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fish store and more in atlanta has a saltwater pond
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04-23-2006, 06:09 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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Most aquariums have a touch tank.
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04-23-2006, 07:25 PM
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moddin aint easy
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Originally Posted by cowfish
fish store and more in atlanta has a saltwater pond
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thats the one i was talking about, im terrible with names 
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04-23-2006, 08:35 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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Originally Posted by cowfish
fish store and more in atlanta has a saltwater pond
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they still have that!!! i think they started working on it right before i moved up here to NC back in '96. i figured they would have done something else there by now. i am guessing it is on the right when you walk in the front door?
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04-24-2006, 06:53 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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yes it is on the right when you go in the door. and they also have a moorish idol,arent they hard to keep alive? theirs looked healthy and was swimming around. |
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04-24-2006, 07:31 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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they are fairly difficult to keep. they like to eat sponges. people have been having more and more success with them lately. not sure if it is people getting better or more of them are getting caught without cyanide.
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04-27-2006, 08:39 PM
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Geoff the pond idea is great, I wish I had pictures of a friend of mine in Albuquerque, He had one outside in his green house that was very nice and did really well. not really a petting type pond but one at ground level. you got a view from the top. natural sunlite lit it.
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07-01-2006, 09:58 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Little Cayman
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Geoff, one of my LFS has MANY of these things. The place is really something else. It's kind of like an old greenhouse converted into a fish store. http://www.tropicorium.com |
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07-02-2006, 11:18 PM
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i helped a friend build one several years ago. we used pressure treated 6x6's about 6 high. then lined it with a pond liner. tacked the liner down then put one untreated 6x6 on the top. it was 12 foot long x 5 foot wide X 2 1\2 foot deep. hung halides over it and used. used a pond filter system,(tetra) several pump put throughout the tank all facing in the same clockwise motion. it had great circulation! if i remember right a couple hundred pounds live rock in four different mounds in it and reef sand on the bottom.
it looked excellent. evaporation was a son-of-a-gun!!
good luck!
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07-04-2006, 05:33 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: alpharetta, GA
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i loved that pound at the fish store and more. post ome pics when you start.
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07-04-2006, 07:45 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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You could make a flusher surge device on it, too.
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07-04-2006, 09:54 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: alpharetta, GA
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flusher surge wat is that.
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