Recent content by ME 109

Way too late, but that's ok because my pool might not be considered fair competition. 100% non chemical, not even UV. 100% living water. 16 year old pool with nothing ever put in the water. No ionisation or any other interference with the water. 100% biologically maintained.

Thanks Caco, there are three fish in my pool at present. A 16" Japanese koi that has been there for ten or eleven years, a 15" golden perch and an 8" goldfish. I have had a much heavier fish load in there for a six month period with no apparent water quality change. That would be to do with 15...

This is my shallow end after a thorough brush down and vacuum. I do this maybe twice over my 5 month swimming season and it stays looking quite good. I vac the entire pool usually two times a year, with another three or four partial vacs of floors and/or shallow end. There's other maintenance...

Confusion understood. The 'Australian Standards' says all private swimming pools shall comply with the appropriate sanitiser levels as indicated in table 1, etc, etc. There is no consideration in the Australian Standards of biological pools like mine, so that says no natural pools. I...

Caco, this is my first natural pool, started April 2006. I had to build my concept pool at home to show that it worked. The bio filter pool isn't well seen in this pic, although the two pools are side by side. I can see the stars reflected on the pool surface at night. I can keep my pool walls...

Thanks gwegan, no such feelings felt. I'll aim to make my natural pool posts as clear as possible, (no pun intended) so as not to be confused with TFP's methods for maintaining sanitised pools.

I'd like to think that the forums I visit and participate in are sufficiently open minded, to take interest in what is developing in closely related fields. Particularly when those developments can come from a single person, as well as international interests. There are many people who are very...

I no longer drink water from my favorite trout streams in North East Victoria, Australia. Even though the streams are quite pristine in the upper reaches, rain water runoff from natural bush land and farm land can wash all sorts of nasties into the stream. In the case of a natural pool, there...

Look out! They're coming! Is that the first public natural pool in the US? To get any sort of real idea as to what is happening biologically in a natural pool, many tests would need to be carried out. A single test will show quite a lot of bacterial life. Testing for a specific bacteria or...

There is also 'Total Habitat' building these pools in the US. Bio-nova is from Germany or Austria, I forget which. There is also Biotop and Aquaviva. There are public natural pools in Germany and Austria. The cost of a natural pool varies as much as for a conventional pool. They can be built...

Lol, that's a lot of leaves! I'm imagining so many funny things happening there..... From my understanding thus far, an excess leaf load is not desirable for the Enviroswim system. It's not desirable for a natural pool system either.

Thanks Swampwoman, I've not inquired into the specific nature of the persons sensitivity to chlorine and can't remember if eczema was mentioned when we first communicated a few months ago. I'll certainly mention your experiences to them. Their pool itself is another issue. It's quite a nice...

Agreed with completely, and thanks for the opportunity to share some information. What brought me to TFP was searching for information re Enviroswim and the likes, in an effort to find an alternative to chlorine for someone with skin sensitivities. They are keen on a pool conversion to a...

That's why I answered "no" to my question "is everyone's sanitized pool safe?" Worthwhile my saying again that I have no problems with sanitized pools. I don't buy into the 'chlorine is dangerous' argument. I don't use 'chlorine is dangerous' as any part of my reasoning when showing my pool to...

I gave up measuring any of these parameters because they didn't change. No ammonia, no nitrite, no nitrate. Dissolved oxygen satisfactory. Phosphate very low. Total hardness 21 ppm, total alkalinity 17 ppm, basically never changes due to 15 tonnes of gravel in the bio filter. As my system is...