The 'Aquascape System' has the be the WORST pond system on the market. The
whole pond system is really poorly designed.

-Adding rocks to the bottom of the pond is absolutly horrible. All of the
fish waste, all of the leaves and plant debris gets caught on the bottom of
the pond and can never be cleaned out. It is just a giant breeding ground
for aermonus bacteria

-How are you suppost to clean the 'biofalls'? If you pull the filter
material out and wash it with a city tap hose you will kill all of the
bacteria that was growning on the filter material. In the system there is
no way to clean out the dirty water in the biofalls after you pull the
filter material out.

-Draining out the entire system and powerwashing it is a very bad idea too.
All of the good bacteria will be killed from the clorinated water and you
will be stuck with the new pond symdrome year after year. It could take
months depending on your fish load to come back online. It is very bad for
fish to have a high amonia and nitrite level.

-It is impossible to keep the rocks clean and not having sting algae growing
all over the rocks in the pond.

-There is many more bad things about the system

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