zozo
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Yes!! Spring time ahoy!! Time to clean out the Tub and start things going.. Last year i integrated a ½ wine barrel with a little idyllic zen waterfall. Eastheticaly it was a treat, practicaly a dissaster and it kept leaking and spilling water. And unintentionaly i discovered last year that running water is a breeding ground for blackfly larvae. Perfect fish food for free..
Now with that in mind, tossed the waterfall idea and this year i want to use the winebarrel as a Daphnia farm.
Still want those blackfly to be happy and my fish with that larvae too, so i went for a set up like this with the tub..
I guess once it is planted a bit it will look less rediculous... But it works.. That's te point. Running water over rocks so the fly can breed.. It can't be more simple.. I put creeping jenny in..
Some moss, amazing how much it grows in the winter..
Here the splitter, so i can regulate some flow.
Again some moss
Yet i do not know if i need some faster water flow down and incline it a bit more.. For now i made it 100% level.
For a start.. For now, a few more weeks and the fish can go in.. Oh, about fish, while cleaning out the tub and it was full of chestnut and grape leaves and grapes as well and had 10 cm ice for a few weeks in the winter.. And all of a sudden is see a black baby goldfish swimming by like nothing is wrong. Probably woke it up and came looking what the fuss is about.. Most have overlooked it last year, i thought i had them all.. I was amazed it survived.. It looked perfectly heathy.. Resiliant little buggers those goldfish. Anyway it's going to get reunited with the rest of the family soon..
Now with that in mind, tossed the waterfall idea and this year i want to use the winebarrel as a Daphnia farm.
Still want those blackfly to be happy and my fish with that larvae too, so i went for a set up like this with the tub..
I guess once it is planted a bit it will look less rediculous... But it works.. That's te point. Running water over rocks so the fly can breed.. It can't be more simple.. I put creeping jenny in..
Some moss, amazing how much it grows in the winter..
Here the splitter, so i can regulate some flow.
Again some moss
Yet i do not know if i need some faster water flow down and incline it a bit more.. For now i made it 100% level.
For a start.. For now, a few more weeks and the fish can go in.. Oh, about fish, while cleaning out the tub and it was full of chestnut and grape leaves and grapes as well and had 10 cm ice for a few weeks in the winter.. And all of a sudden is see a black baby goldfish swimming by like nothing is wrong. Probably woke it up and came looking what the fuss is about.. Most have overlooked it last year, i thought i had them all.. I was amazed it survived.. It looked perfectly heathy.. Resiliant little buggers those goldfish. Anyway it's going to get reunited with the rest of the family soon..