Saltwater pond

[soxford27]

Has anyone ever had a saltwater pond outside in Texas weather? If so how did you control the temperature.

 

[C4ctus99]

I can’t say I ever have, but definitely a dream of mine. Sounds like quite the undertaking though. Will it have some sort of shade or just be exposed to the sun?

 

[soxford27]

So it’ll be under my carport which is shaded. So it wouldn’t get direct sunlight at all.

 

[NASAGeek]

I’d love this. Neighbor has a koi pond. Jelly.

I’m in Texas, too.

 

[bushdoc]

Surely temp control will be challenging. There’s many organisms living in rock pools at the coast and they are used to temp swings. I would research this and try to get them for your pond.

 

[Pistondog]

A fountain to promote evaporation cooling might help.

 

[soxford27]

I’d love this. Neighbor has a koi pond. Jelly.

I’m in Texas, too.

See I would love to do the saltwater pond. I have a koi pond and also raise and sell koi. So I figured why not try a saltwater pond.

 

[C4ctus99]

I would think try looking into swimming pool heating/chilling equipment. It not being in direct sunlight will help a lot cause then it’s just ambient air temperature and keeping 10-20 degrees cooler (or a little more, not certain how hot it gets in your part of Texas).

I would definitely be concerned about evaporation though, especially if you have a large surface area and large summer/winter temp differences (in my part of Florida it gets down to the 30s during winter and just under 100 in the summer). But I guess you would be used to that with your koi pond, but keeping SP right could be a chore