In my backyard is a wooden deck surrounding what used to be a large, above-ground swimming pool. I want to
reuse the structure without installing and filling up a new pool (way too wasteful in this Texas drought!). I'm looking for advice on making a fish
pond out of it... Tilapia most likely would be what I use, since they're popular and probably easy to obtain, though I haven't looked into fish just yet. Ideally I'd be able to build an aquaponics garden out of it, since I think even if it were half-full the pool area would be too large for a manageable fish
pond. However, it may be better just to get the fish going first and ease into creating a new garden.
Anyway, the pool vinyl is badly damaged and will need to come out. I'm not really sure what would be an efficient method of walling in the pond, as the edges of the pool are nearly 4 feet deep and I think that would be a whole lot of dirt to bring in. I think I need some way to turn half the pool into a fish pond and keep the other for possible
gardening, but I've never done anything like this before. I don't even really know where to start!
