FFFF - fish pond construction

Pla Nin ( Talapia) are algae eaters.

My retaining wall in all honesty is probably over kill.

If your just doing a few fish I would just go with Lilly Plants. With just a few fish you don't need to do anything with pumping air in. Dirt ponds have a natural amount of oxygen. Keep in mind I'm putting 2000 Pla Nin. So I have to do things differently.

If you noticed the pictures of the cat fish pond that is muddy water local fish don't have problem with that. Lee add some fertilizer to your pond that promotes algae. That will clear some of the muddy water and provide food for some types of fish.

Gates everything is included in the 255 K Baht.

When we pumped the small pond they found about 12 good size fish, they had never done anything with it no feeding no nothing.

I would try a bit fertilizer and leave it a that lee. The water should clear with time. Guys I'm no expert, so my way may work it may not.

Lee this is what you are looking for remember how muddy that water looked when it was pumped into the pond. Hard to se here but, now it;s an emerald green. Ta hat means algae is forming



Finishing touches of plaster on the front wall, now you wait for it to dry. Then apply a sealer, good paint so you won't be painting it every year and you will miss the black streaks as well.

One thing about my wife work doesn't bother her at all she can lay down and sleep by it anytime



This young man all of 13 on the other hand is a real worker, still in High School, every weekend he either works with his father or his uncle and he does a man day of work.



I tried to get the kid to quit about 1300 hrs. it was really hot he wouldn't do it, about 1500 hrs. his uncle finally told him stop and he did. I paid him for the w entire day and he earned it. The kid goes to school through the week. I hope he finishes. I know one thing if he doesn't he knows what hard work is when he decides. I hear about child labor I don't think they mean a kid like this, who is going to school. I did the same thing when I was a kid. Makes you really want to finish school. Next time you want to think about lazy Thai's look at these photos again.

Second wall is finished now and they were plastering it today. Time for sealer on the first wall now.



He is cutting the caps for the top of the wall.



The discards made great steps down to the pond



Now you might ask yourself why pay for the housekeepers dental work, cause she cam make steps to pond

Hmm!!!! wonder what Mao's up to now.



Boy this is getting crazier by the second



Maybe cooling off ?



No turns out they were making a fish pen.



Not really what I wanted but with language some how I got. They were going to put in four I stopped them at one.



Wife didn't get any photo's of the finished project I'll get some tomorrow and explain why I don't want them. I thought I was getting fish net laid at the bottom that we could raise to help catch the little buggers.

I made some head way on Security today bought four motion detectors with a range of 33 meters, they will be connected to sirens not lights. To hell with them let run in the dark I got to get some step down transformers since the sirens are 12 volt. I should be able to find them at the electronics store in Big C.

This is what we ended up with, four but they are fixed to pound itself, so when ew get rain they wiill be under water. I fixed rope to them so we can pull them out when that happens.



Yep that is a big hole in the ground



get the knots right


Trash removal contry style




Just wanted to see if your still awake

Started on the third wall, the other two are being painted now.



We started seeing some die off with the cat fish, so took the water to the Udon fishery, we need to add lime.

This an intersesting study on growing Pla Nin an shrimp together in Thailand, that ashould help on the bottom line a bit.

http://ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/ista/ista6 ... df/777.pdf

Serious comment about the alarm system: Are you at risk of getting your new power supplies and sirens ripped off? I hope you position things so that the alarm will be set off if anybody approaches the expensive parts.

Not really maybe 1500 baht in it. I owned an alarm company in the states so I knew what to get. Guys lets face there is risk in everything you do here or anywhere else. The biggest risk you ever took was moving here. Everything is pretty small after that. I will walk test it.

It's a learning proces to early for any certainity yet. Two aspects are already working. The last being shrimp if I do anything I will use the cat fish pond after they are gone. The big pond is simply to much to drain. The cat fish pond will accomodate 2000 shrimp. The water is now brackish, make that work then I will expand.

The nets are for prediators.

This was a bit darker then I thought. But, no changing now



Final ten loads of fill dirt going in.

This time 850 baht per load since it was closer for them to get

They started laying block on the third wall yesterday this was taken in the morning



In the evening lot done for one day, the boss finally took a day off so not much done today

The ladies my wife and the housekeeper had this one figured out, time for a picnic



Started moving Around the additional dirt fill

This will give you a good idea how much fill dirt went in




A little toddy for the body after long days work.



The Boss joining the toddy group