Habitat - Outdoor

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:35 am **I'm thinking about building a out door pond**

Long time to post AGAIN lol. Any ways, I am planning on building a 10' long x 4' deep, 8' wide. The whole cage will be 20' long, 10' tall, and 10' wide.
My stacking plans are
1 RES
2 Stink Pot mucks
2 Painted Turtles
6 Gold Fish
20 Mosquito fish
A bunch of snails to help with algae.

Any changes to this?

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:11 am

I have some Changes, I have found I can have a much bigger water area if I make it raised. Plus I can get to it easy, like if I need to take them in because it is too cold ect. The new pond will be on my drive way and will be 8 foot long, 4' wide at the widest and 2' wide at the smallest, and 4' deep. I found an old pool filter for a 1,000 gallon pool, and the pool liner. so that just took hundreds of dollars off the list

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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:35 pm

Wow, sounds like a huge project! What are you going to make it out of?

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:10 am

45 10' 4x4
18 5' rebar
Cement footing
And a old pool liner if it doesn't leak.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:12 am

Any ways it is going to be much much bigger. I dug out another old pool filter that can handle 1,500 gallons and that will be used along with the other pool filter.
It is going to be 10' long, 5' wide, and 4' deep. This is (Maybe) My final change.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:15 pm

Ok, How much sand will I need for a 10' by 5' area? IT needs to be large enough for a adult RES to Hibernate in.

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:25 pm

So this won't be underground or partially underground?

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:41 am

No because I live next to this
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=na ... a=N&tab=il
And there are way to many predators and I don't want to build a fence with a roof on top too keep them safe. Plus my soil is rock hard and it would be way to hard to dig down 4'.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:11 am

Hey is that the lake that had a alligator in it ?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:32 am

Yep. I live four blocks from it.

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:04 am

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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:45 pm

Hey what are mosquito fish?

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:37 pm

I believe they are the fish that eat mosquito larvae

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