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.. 🙂