I'm thinking of coming back to Ubon for a holiday around xmas or new year. My wife and I have a house and land just 5 mins drive from BigC where we have 6 rai. On our last holiday we completed the gardens around our home as I get bored doing nothing when on holiday and like to have a project to keep me occupied some of the time. I'm not a sun worshiper and like to keep my brain working.

This year I was thinking of putting in a fish pool at the rear of our home so we can breed fish for sale but mostly keep stock for our own and family consumption. Has anyone any experience of what is needed to setup a simple pool that can be used for this without going to great expense. If anyone has done this themselves I would be pleased to learn about how they went about lining the inside of the pool if necessary and keeping the pool stocked with fish and water circulation etc... We have two water wells on our land so no need for mains water to keep the pool topped up.

Cheers.

Also if anyone is up for a drink or bite to eat around that time then let me know through this thread or by PM. It would be great to know who is living within the city. All the best.

What would worry me is that open water always attracts mosquitoes and I wouldn't want a pool near the house for that reason. One of the central planks in disease prevention and health promotion campaigns in NE villages is to get people to cover open water, even large water jars in the bathroom, to stop breeding. Dengue is still a problem in Isaan.

Hi Citizen

You could well be right. I never thought about the mozzies, its already difficult to sit outside at night with a cold beer without been eaten alive so a pool could make matters worse. The pool I was thinking about would have been small but still relatively close to the house. However, if it compounds the mosquito problem further then I might have to re-think the whole thing or keep buying my fish from bigC and Tesco.

Hi Citizen

You could well be right. I never thought about the mozzies, its already difficult to sit outside at night with a cold beer without been eaten alive so a pool could make matters worse. The pool I was thinking about would have been small but still relatively close to the house. However, if it compounds the mosquito problem further then I might have to re-think the whole thing or keep buying my fish from bigC and Tesco.

Fish love mosquito's, it's puddles and uncovered water butts that mozzies breed successfully in.

Hi Citizen

You could well be right. I never thought about the mozzies, its already difficult to sit outside at night with a cold beer without been eaten alive so a pool could make matters worse. The pool I was thinking about would have been small but still relatively close to the house. However, if it compounds the mosquito problem further then I might have to re-think the whole thing or keep buying my fish from bigC and Tesco.

Fish love mosquito's, it's puddles and uncovered water butts that mozzies breed successfully in.

They will eat quite a few, but will it be enough? I don't see many Thai people putting their fish ponds outside the back door.

Hi Citizen

You could well be right. I never thought about the mozzies, its already difficult to sit outside at night with a cold beer without been eaten alive so a pool could make matters worse. The pool I was thinking about would have been small but still relatively close to the house. However, if it compounds the mosquito problem further then I might have to re-think the whole thing or keep buying my fish from bigC and Tesco.

Fish love mosquito's, it's puddles and uncovered water butts that mozzies breed successfully in.

They will eat quite a few, but will it be enough? I don't see many Thai people putting their fish ponds outside the back door.

Thai people would put there fishponds outside the back door if they had the money to build one,usually they only do this when the farang is paying,and yes the fish do eat the majority of mozzies,in my village just outside nongki burriram,therers aroung 18 farang,the majority have all built theres on there land behind or to the side of the house,ive not heard of any problems,we have a big fish pond on the rice paddys,with a big barbed fence around and a pile of barbed wire in the bottom,to stop people dredging it in the night,i bought around 1000 pla nin a couple of years ago within 6 months they were big,the whole village had a feast on them for around a month,now im gonna do the same when i get back build one behind the house,all thais love pla nin,you dont need any liner just get a jcb to dig you a 5 mtr hole let it settle then there you have it,thats all everyone else seems to be doing where i am....

I suggest that you check out this thread: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/lofiversion/...p/t87368-0.html

thank you all for your input and the thread posted seems informative. i'm getting the impression that it is quite costly to look after fish unless making your own feed to use instead. i may have to rethink my project as knowing my luck the fish would all die after i'd fed them for a year.