parotet
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Hi all
I live in a flat with a small terrace (around 10 m2) which is crowded of plants but… yes, I also want to have my little pond . There is a corner surrounded by small walls where I can hide a plastic basket with maximum dimensions 60x50x40 cm (LxWxH), let's say 135 liters. Nevertheless I have two doubts I want to ask you:
1. the exposition will be NE… thus no direct sun, but plenty of light. I live in the Mediterranean coast so I think it is better not to have direct sun to prevent my small water volume from boiling (now in May the temperature is 25ºC but in two months it will be around 38ºC). Do you think this exposition/no direct sun would be a problem? I don’t want necessarily to have Nenuphar species (which I think is the most limiting species in that case).
2. I would prefer to avoid any kind of equipment such as air or movement pumps. Probably not having direct sun will help, but is it possible to have this volume without a pump/filter?
In order to give you a better idea of what I want, I would like to have a small submerged jungle with bits and pieces from my tanks (Egeria, Miriophyllum... I won't really see them, just for oxygenating). Also some emerged aquatic plants (giant horsetail, Crypts, Rotala, Limnophila…) probably on hanging baskets attached to the walls and terrestrial potted plants well adapted to have their roots in the water (Monstera, ferns, Ficus, Spatiphyllum, etc.). I would add Gambusia affinis in order to control mosquito larvae and probably some local shrimps. The water from my tanks would be used to fill the pond when needed. No water changes of course...
Thanks in advance for your advice,
Jordi
I live in a flat with a small terrace (around 10 m2) which is crowded of plants but… yes, I also want to have my little pond . There is a corner surrounded by small walls where I can hide a plastic basket with maximum dimensions 60x50x40 cm (LxWxH), let's say 135 liters. Nevertheless I have two doubts I want to ask you:
1. the exposition will be NE… thus no direct sun, but plenty of light. I live in the Mediterranean coast so I think it is better not to have direct sun to prevent my small water volume from boiling (now in May the temperature is 25ºC but in two months it will be around 38ºC). Do you think this exposition/no direct sun would be a problem? I don’t want necessarily to have Nenuphar species (which I think is the most limiting species in that case).
2. I would prefer to avoid any kind of equipment such as air or movement pumps. Probably not having direct sun will help, but is it possible to have this volume without a pump/filter?
In order to give you a better idea of what I want, I would like to have a small submerged jungle with bits and pieces from my tanks (Egeria, Miriophyllum... I won't really see them, just for oxygenating). Also some emerged aquatic plants (giant horsetail, Crypts, Rotala, Limnophila…) probably on hanging baskets attached to the walls and terrestrial potted plants well adapted to have their roots in the water (Monstera, ferns, Ficus, Spatiphyllum, etc.). I would add Gambusia affinis in order to control mosquito larvae and probably some local shrimps. The water from my tanks would be used to fill the pond when needed. No water changes of course...
Thanks in advance for your advice,
Jordi