Many different species of aquatic plants planted in biological pools have one common name which is pondweed. They may be broadleaved, fully underwater, or only with floating leaves, thin-leaved and even combinations of thin-leaved and broad-leaved. A huge diversity! Pondweed, Potamogeton in scientific, is a genus of worldwide distribution, has representatives on all continents [...]

Coimbra Agrarian School has an ongoing research project to promote the conservation of endangered rare aquatic plants in Baixo Mondego and Dunas de Mira in the center of the country. “Charcas de Noé” aims to “actively contribute to increasing knowledge of the distribution and conservation status of rare and endangered aquatic plants in Baixo [...]

This year, Warsaw in Polone was the venue for the international congress on biological pools. Claudia & Udo Schwarzer, the designers of Bio Piscinas, Lda. actively participated with presentations on this event. Following a proposal from Grupo Ibérico de águas balneares com tratamento biológico GIABN, the association of professionals on biological pools in the Iberian [...]

There are frogs everywhere! Little frogs, even very small frogs still with a little tail, remnant of the time of her previous aquatic life as a tadpole. Late summer is the time for the next generation of frogs and there are people who think that the population of frogs in a biological pool will [...]

This very beautiful flowering delicate plant is called bladderwort or Utricularia. It is an unusual plant on the large species list for biological pools. A floating plant that never has roots is usually not very suitable for use in a biological pool because it could appear in the bathing area. But in certain biological pool [...]