Take a trip down to the Florida Keys and check out a hotel called the Kon Tiki. They have a saltwater pond in the back. Last time I was there was quite a while back but there were 30 or 40 pound cobia and redfish living in there along with a huge assortment of other fish. I didn’t see any corals and the water was kind of a murky
Gulf of Mexico pond. But it was really cool to see all those fish in there. We filleted our fish that day Fed all the carcasses to the fish in the pond. I think if you were to only use native species you could pull it off. As long as you’re willing to keep a biome pond of what’s available locally it would be pretty cool. You could drag around a plankton net inshore near where your pond is going to be and I’m sure you could collect larva of a huge variety of species which would settle in your pond. Lots of sponges, tunicates, some corals and fish. You never know.
Gulf of Mexico pond. But it was really cool to see all those fish in there. We filleted our fish that day Fed all the carcasses to the fish in the pond. I think if you were to only use native species you could pull it off. As long as you’re willing to keep a biome pond of what’s available locally it would be pretty cool. You could drag around a plankton net inshore near where your pond is going to be and I’m sure you could collect larva of a huge variety of species which would settle in your pond. Lots of sponges, tunicates, some corals and fish. You never know.