Shared bath with fish in the swimming pond?

Content

• Shared bath with fish in the swimming pond?
• Fish and their excrements
• Observe legal differences!
• Exceptional. cercarial
• Tips

A swimming pond should not be home to fish

Shared bath with fish in the swimming pond?

A swimming pond with fish is technically not a significant problem, but not recommended for hygienic reasons. The contamination of the animals causes the biological balance of the natural pool to tilt, so that the bathing fun quickly sinks due to the increasing nutrient content.

What works well in normal swimming lakes does not have to work in the swimming pond for a long time. An untroubled coexistence of bathers and fish makes in the long run equal several problems. As cute as the animals may be, they contribute significantly to the contamination of the pond water, so that a fish stocking in the natural pool is more than questionable for hygienic reasons. In addition, people who bathe in the pond water cause considerable stress on the fish, since they use the pond with the water plants as a natural cover and therefore consider their own retreat.

Fish and their excrements

A swimming pond with fish will cause increased algae formation in the natural pool as a result of their excretions within a very short time. The animals additionally whirl up the sedimented muck, which accumulates at the bottom of the pond, resulting in accelerated mineralization. From organic substances become inorganic, which finally can not be broken down in a natural way. In addition, most species of fish feed on flea crabs, which were originally supposed to act as biological water filters in the swimming pond.

Observe legal differences!

While there is likely to be no impact on the country-specific building legislation, whether the natural pool is a fish or a swimming pond, it should be noted that there are different levels of water standards for both types of pond that must be complied with. Therefore, it is actually excluded by the legislature that a pool with fish stocking is also a swimming pond.

Exceptional. cercarial

Harmful microorganisms create the very unpleasant cercariae for our human skin. Anyone who has been operating a swimming pond for a long time knows this, especially at higher water temperatures fast-spreading sucking worms, which are sometimes introduced by ducks by the pool. As a natural antagonist in such cases, a single tench or rudd can be used, which feeds on, among other things, cercaria. More than one fish is not recommended because the animals multiply too fast under such favorable conditions.

Tips

Solar perch, Moderlieschen and Goldschleie increase the liveliness of a pond significantly and determined there is still a little space on the property for a smaller fishpond. As a precaution, we have already summarized how best to do it in a guidebook article.