How to build a Natural Pool - DIY Organic Pool build 

Still the best call of the post 😆

Great ending with all the people swimming in the pool

mrreoww4840 what about a fence? aligators can't jump

pustel In florida, they figure out a way

pustel yes they can

They can climb fences and bust through your screened in pool with no effort. I'm not kidding. Don't know where you hail from but I've lived in west central Florida most of my life. Not only do you need to check for gators but water moccasins (venomous snake) but snapping turtles as well. Welcome to Florida kids!

mrreoww4840 😂 cant do it in chicago IL youd freeze 87% of the time

with the plants providing extra oxygen thus the algae stays away, besides the black color liner also prohibits algae growth while providing more warmth

+Henry Cristiano Gonsalves Dark liners help heat the water... :)

exactly!

Henry Cristiano Gonsalves exactly. I don't fuck with snakes

Henry Cristiano Gonsalves this is a paradise for piton in Florida.

DeVonte Gray it made me think of my childhood and still irrational fear that their is a shark hiding in the deep in lmao

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Mosquitos, frogs, algae and a fine for no drain.

It's a pond bro. Not a pool

Vincent2wice from an English speaker in the US, grate is actually the word he meant to spell....idk if you know this but a grate is like a covering (a drain covering for example)

@@thebrewmore264 it’s actually both

ask about whether a white or black/green plastic tank is better, you will find the white tank is an algae farm, black is a good passive heating system to warm the water along with a medium to dark green or even blue also help keep algae at bay along with the plants providing natural algae killing oxygen into the water as well

That is not the right environment for clams.

The plants provide oxygen which is what keeps algae at bay, ever seen a pond using those floating fountains? those fountains are helping oxygenate and thus reduce to the point of elimination of algae. The plants are doing the oxygenation and filtration of certain other biologicals that are not harmful to you but to keep it in check.

Kirk Lazarus Nutrients provided by what or whom? You're a dolt! Those plants would die in less than a week, unless you you start filling that nasty swamp with enough fishes to support an ecosystem that doesn't exist in the first place 👌🏻

How?

O you forgot to say how

You just don't add plants to it @@nenala7684

Yes, but the integrity of the wood will be maintained for years and years, and if you're that worried, the lining can tear, the cement and mortar can crack, etc. etc. And mosquitos require stagnant water to breed, which is why the problem exists. This body of water is circulating. Mosquitos won't be a huge problem. Plus mosquitos don't live everywhere, so where this guy lives is also a factor.

larsonny77 wood will not rot if it stays submerged.

larsonny77 wood needs oxygen to rot, so if submerged then you're fine. You realize Venice, Italy was built on a wooden beam foundation right? You know how old that city is? It'll be fine.

What about the frogs?

Republic of Texas, actually Italy uses Piles it sit on, not just beams, and only sinking due to the wood deteriorating due to the movement of the buildings and people walking rhythm, woods does not live forever underwater where aquatic wood borers persist and is only 'sinking' due to tides thus why they have built those barriers to protect it sometime into the future. They really should look at replacing those piles with carbon/dyneema/fiberglass/kevlar composite piles as they are impervious to rust unlike steel, wood borers and rot like wood, or washout and rust deterioration like reinforced concrete. But that would be a vast and very highly costly operation

when dumb marketing goes dumber

Ha Kou lol

Jacob Clark LOL

Jacob Clark lol

Jacob Clark Eating snakes while swimming?? Dunno

Never seen a bug infested natural pool that was properly maintained with flowing water. Seen plenty of neglected chemical pools succumb to algae and aquatic bugs

its 7 foot deep, that is deeper than a pond which is at most 2 foot deep and this is not large enough in area to be a pond

they have natural bodies of water there so clear yet plenty of swimmers enjoying those spots with no worry of crocs and aquatic snakes which by the way pythons are constrictor types and have no fang or venom

RIPPER334 the plants do the filtering

David Ayers do they kill bacteria and parasites?

David Ayers No... no. While some plants CAN absorb (and adsorb) SOME bacteria, and even a few heavy metals, these are typically leached fairly quickly back into the water colum. So using the term "filter" would be extremely loose in this example. Mostly what aquatic plants WILL do, is take excess nutrients from the water (even then, only what they need to grow), and as a result of this nutrient reduction, algae is starved... and you have clearer "looking" water. Again... using that term loosely. Plants won't do anything for parasites... they've never stopped a case of dysentery or foot rot... and the money you save on pool filter sand, you'll quickly spend on mosquito spray! Basically, unless you are a fish benefiting from a balanced nitrogen cycle, and the added oxygen in the water, plants aren't doing much for funky, mostly stagnant water... (which this will become without proper stratification)... especially in the few numbers planted around this flooded backyard. This is just another go-green money grab...

honestly I'd just pop some fish into it and use it as a fishing spot XD. using it for swimming though? no.

I thought that was the case. Thxs

absolutely nothing

you may not get this comment notification but I hope you did some self research on this and find out how this type of or any other pool that is a maintained properly will not attract insects or parasites

jj It has a dark grey/black liner. It is always going to look dark.

I have seen blue and green ocean waters in the tropics and even once of the 5 great lakes is blue and often so crystal clear you can see to he bottom as some sunken ship images shown proves this. Yet you still say its not clear despite its black due to the liner color? I can see myself with Rx glasses how clear it is.

Olympic size pool is more close to a pond, I seen cesspools that size and small as this which I never would swim in, this is pool size

Funny one there, har har.

Diy kits you buy at a store aren't really diy.

its organic in that the plants while they remove some biology stuff they provide oxygen and the limestone gravel along with charcoal filter also maintain health and clarity are all ORGANIC, so is the wood sleeper wall clearly seen, oh and if this is a pond, then I guess an olympic pool is still a pool even if it is built into a natural one.

Joy Acuyong it's the beauty of marketing ;)

Joy Acuyong it's a little bit of both pool and pond

its a swimming pond

No, it's a natural pool

John Phox ponds aren’t dirty, people are...