I am starting the second year on a Aquascape pond. So far, no problems.
You
are not giving me a warm and fuzzy feeling about the coming season. Last
year,
both fish and plants seemed to do quite well. Where are you located? I'm
in Maryland.

doug bolt
Visit: http://www.boltassociates.com


Wlucas4 wrote:
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

anyone have any comments please respond to the news group

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