Wlucas4 wrote:

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

Whoa, calm down a notch.

-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.
I believe you simply slam the filter on some hard surface a few times. Works
for me.


In the system there is
no way to clean out the dirty water in the biofalls after you pull the
filter material out.
Turn off the pump and siphon it or use a pail.


-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.
I've never heard anyone saying to do this. (I don't have a pond designed by
Aquascape but I do have a skimmer and bio type falls. I think they work
fine)


-It is impossible to keep the rocks clean
Yes...

and not having sting algae growing
all over the rocks in the pond.
...no. I have some algae on the rocks. If someone building a pond expects not
to have algae on submerged rocks, they are in for disappointment. I suggest
this is a problem not unique to Aquascape.

-There is many more bad things about the system
Hard to argue with this statement.

anyone have any comments please respond to the news group



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