Many exotic specimens suited to warm weather, thrive in the heat and will grow quite large. Plant your items wisely to avoid extra pool maintenance. You don't want a lot of the plant material falling or blowing into the pool, ie. Plantings near poolside require commonsense. Salt spray will kill many kinds of plants so it's a factor when making decisions. Whatever you decide to do, make sure you acquire and use plant specimens that will grow well in your location. 100 meters from the ocean and the salt air prohibited some plants from doing well. I lived in a Central Florida pool home for 15 years. I) water PH screw-ups (this is not common but common enough to mention-usually caused by f, g, h) Koiphen is wonderful. g) overfeeding fish h) using too much or the wrong kind of fertilizer for the water plants. One ten inch fish puts out a lot more bioload than ten one inch fish. d) leaf-fall just happened and I need to get scooping e) time for the couple times a year get in there and suction the mulm off the bottom or run the bottom drain is needed for same reason f) too many fish or not enough filter or both need to up the filtration capacity and/or decrease the fish population. If I have constantly murky water I have a) overzealous koi making a mess in the potted plants I just put in the water and no they won't stop it if you put big ragged boulders on top the pot dirt.

A scooped handful of water I can see the lines in my palm, if I scooped a drinking glassful it would not be clear but fairly close to it. If my water is not bright opaque green other than that week in the spring I'm doing good if my fish show up amongst the lily leaves and I can see them for six inches or so below the water, the water is fairly clean. Filter maintenance is a way of life, as is cleaning hair algae (the curse of ponding). Best you can hope for is a healthy pond with fairly clear water and happy fish and healthy growing plants. It just doesn't happen where you have a bioload and sunlight. There will be no compromise that gives you gin clear all the time.

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