Hi everyone

I'm not sure if this has been a topic before. I found this very interesting. If you click on the link below:

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This guy from Costa Rica built a swimming pond. A swiming pool with fish in it. It's a long thread, but if you fast forward right to the end, you'll see the finished thing. Amazing!

Here is another link for a UK company that does this kind of thing, but I don't think they encourage putting fish in their swim ponds.

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This is very interesting and can you imagine how great it would be to swim with your fish!

I had a look.

It seems he wants a pond with no algae.. that he can swim in..

Those stones will become so slippery..

Well it looks good but I think he must deside what he wants to achieve.

Cleaning that with a vacuum weekly is insane.

I prefer the 2nd link. Its like swimming in a river or lake.

I heard a talk on Radio 702 on this subject last year. See the websites:
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However, I don't like the idea of swimming with my koi...perhaps a beautiful mermaid would be nice.

I must agree with wayne

At some point algae will grow on the sides and the bottom and then it won't be that nice in there anymore. He must also have a brilliant filtration system to keep that water clean - easily poison the kids if he is not careful!

The pond in the second link is stunning:

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The one in the first link will soon be just a pond.

Julian from Houtbay has a nice setup with his 230 000 liter liner pond where his family and dogs apparently swim on a regular basis.

He even had a little boat on there when I was there.

Julian's pond:

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