Despite what happened the last time I tried to post a site, here I am again. This site has a LOT of stuff on it, including things in .pdf you can download. I can't download, so can't tell you how useful they are, but from what I can get at, should be some very good information. Lots of different types of ponds, lots of different types of fish.

http://www.aquanic.org

At least that's what it is at the moment. Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), July 15, 2000

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Gerbil, thanks for the site. One of my projects for next year is to convert my inground swimming pool to a fish pond and I am researching now which kind of fish I want in there and any other water life appropriate as food for humans. I'm checking out crayfish, snails, bass and catfish at the moment.

I have three catfish in the pool right now because I am experimenting on how to keep the algae out of the water. Once I am happy with a system for doing that I am going to pull out the liner and seal the seams in the structure and see if it will hold water. If not, I will have to put some EPDM lining in it to hold the water. I am also interested in combining the raising of aquatic food animals with hydroponics of plants to eat as well. It will be a long term project that I am sure will evolve over time as I discover new things I can do with it. It is hard to find information on raising things in a pool because the info is either about small tanks or large fish ponds. So I expect I will have to do some experimenting on my own. Right now I have three catfish that I bought at the local pet store and some frogs that have invited themselves to move in. I also have some pollywogs and it looks like a salamander or two. It is going to be a fun project that I am really looking forward to it. Have you got a project going that made you interested in this website?

-- Colleen (pyramidgreatdanes@erols.com), July 19, 2000.