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April 2018

Edible plants

2018-04-01T11:40:44+01:00

At the margins of a biological pool we can find some edible plants. Since water quality provides favorable conditions for these species, they are making part of the range of choice of their designers. Mint (Mentha aquatica) imparts a strong perfume to Menthol because all parts of the plant are rich in etheric oils. [...]

Edible plants2018-04-01T11:40:44+01:00

Contributes to LIFE RELICT

2018-04-01T10:56:05+01:00

Bio Piscinas, Lda. has the great honor to accept the invitation to contribute to the LIFE RELICT project. The project was born out of the desire to preserve a rare habitat in Europe, dominated by plants that witnessed the forests of laurissilva that occupied the Iberian Peninsula in past geological times when the climate [...]

Contributes to LIFE RELICT2018-04-01T10:56:05+01:00

BioVac cleaning robot

2018-04-01T10:47:13+01:00

BioVAC has thick and thin filtration units and cleans different forms of bath zones sealed with liner. It works with coarse filtration (> 300 microns) with removable filters and following a fine filtration (<20 microns) for sediment using thin polymer fiber filter. The filter cassette can be easily removed from above and cleaned with [...]

BioVac cleaning robot2018-04-01T10:47:13+01:00

February 2018

Start of the swimming season!

2018-02-25T15:25:18+00:00

We can already speak of a small tradition: the Resort Club Med of Balaia in Albufeira is every year the first tourist unit to open its biological pool for its guests. From the 18th of February the biological pool invites to a bath. Even being in the Algarve, the water temperature was not more [...]

Start of the swimming season!2018-02-25T15:25:18+00:00

5 hectars of swimming ponds

2018-02-25T15:21:40+00:00

The calculation is as simple as impressive: 200 biological pools in the country with an average size of 250 m2 are making a total area of 50,000 m2 or 5 hectares. The portfolio of designers of Bio Piscinas, Lda., created during almost 25 years of career in Portugal, is a gift for the environment, [...]

5 hectars of swimming ponds2018-02-25T15:21:40+00:00

Water Flag

2018-02-25T15:20:14+00:00

The Water Flag is one of the few species best known among the hundreds of aquatic plants used in biological pools. Iris pseudacorus, its scientific name, refers to its leaves in the form of a sword to remember an old medicinal plant "Acorus" from Asia ie the name says: Iris (lily) which has leaves [...]

Water Flag2018-02-25T15:20:14+00:00

January 2018

Pygmy Newt

2018-01-28T12:32:31+00:00

The Pygmy Triton is a species of Triton exclusive of Southern Portugal and Southern Spain. Triturus pygmeus was considered as subspecies of  the Marbeled Newt (Triturus marmoratus) that has a distribution in the remaining areas of Portugal and Spain to France. In the ponds and as well in biological pools of the Algarve and [...]

Pygmy Newt2018-01-28T12:32:31+00:00

Bio Piscinas, Lda. joint the Landstewardship Network for Mediterranean Ponds

2018-01-28T12:36:29+00:00

Bio Piscinas, Lda. has joined the recently established Temporary Pond Landstewardship Network of the LIFE Charcos project. The LIFE Charcos Project aims to conserve a priority habitat, the Mediterranean Temporary Ponds (habitat priority 3170 * of the Habitats Directive), which is increasingly threatened due to its ecological fragility and lack of knowledge of its [...]

Bio Piscinas, Lda. joint the Landstewardship Network for Mediterranean Ponds2018-01-28T12:36:29+00:00

World Day of Wetlands

2018-01-28T12:28:25+00:00

February 2 is the Wetlands World Day. In 2018 the global theme for this day is "Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future", reminding society that wetland conservation is not only a concern of environmentalists or of those who live in nature, but a concern for all of us even from the more urban population, [...]

World Day of Wetlands2018-01-28T12:28:25+00:00

December 2017

Prune the plants

2017-12-30T11:07:14+00:00

When a biological pool already has a few years of existence, it eventually needs a pruning of a part of the underwater plants. When this was even necessary, in the third or fifth year of the existence or even later, it depends greatly on the state of development of some distinct species. Thus, the [...]

Prune the plants2017-12-30T11:07:14+00:00
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