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Water snails are a cleaning weapon in biological pools, and so welcome. Almost all species feed on the so-called biofilm, a living film of microbes, algae and fungi growing above any surface as long as there is enough water. Snails have a strong muscle, a kind of "treadmill", which serves to move them above [...]
Biological pools are easily included in the UN Agenda 2030 and their sustainable development goals (SDGs), which Portugal also signed. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consists of 17 SDGs and was approved in September 2015 by 193 members, resulting from the joint work of governments and citizens around the world to [...]
If we would do a survey among the owners of biological pools asking what are the most loved animals in their biological pool, the winner would be certainly the tree frog. Tree frogs are small frogs capable climbing in vegetation. Portugal has the privilege of hosting two different species of tree frog, the Mediterranean tree [...]
The first three months of the year are the most indicated time when basic cleaning of each biological pool must be done. After months of disuse, deposits, such as dust and leaves, naturally accumulate on the bottom of the swimming area. These must be removed before starting into the new swimming season. In biological [...]
We thought our site is well known, but it looks like that not all know that it is on this site where the way to have an own swimming pond starts. At the site there is a button “quote” which opens a questionnaire. The answers will give us a basic information to elaborate a proposal. One [...]
It is now, even now, on these slightly rainy nights, but not cold, when it is worth visiting the biological pool. It is not for bathing, the water must be little more than 13 ºC! Get ready with a lamp! This visit is to find out who lives in the biological pool. There are [...]
In the rainy season the biological pool becomes attractive to even more living beings. Much lower temperatures of this season and rain water falling from the sky encourage the willingness of salamanders and newts to initiate migrations in search of suitable places to meet for mating. Thus, on rainy nights the biological pool becomes [...]
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 [...]
Casa Alto da Eira is a place to smell the Alentejo from the terrace or from the water surface of the biological pool. House and biological pool are just over 15 years old and are as inviting as the first day. Situated in Albergaria-dos-Fusos, municipality of Cuba in Alentejo, during your stay you can [...]
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