Gathering: Bringing My Basin to Life

Having a healthy garden pond by restoring natural cycles, simply by introducing the biodiversity it lacked.

The ponds in our gardens generally have an incomplete biological cycle due to a lack of biodiversity. Technology tries clumsily to make up for this lack, but it remains inevitably much more imperfect than a complete natural cycle.
Between the bottom silt and the fish living in our ponds, the biological cycle is often interrupted, or even nonexistent.

In nature, every dead leaf is broken down by bacteria and fungi, then consumed by water lice, ostracods, worms, or freshwater shrimps, whose droppings then allow unicellular algae to develop, which will feed daphnia or other aquatic crustaceans. And all these little creatures are the natural food of your fish.
In nature, no one comes to hand out industrial extruded pellets to the fish!





A living pond, as long as it is not overly populated, must therefore be able to host abundant biodiversity. This biodiversity is the condition for the resilience of any natural environment, aquatic or not. Its absence is the cause of extreme phenomena such as green water, the uncontrolled proliferation of a single species (algae for example), or the deadly eutrophication of the environment (stagnant water).

Properly managing a decorative water feature therefore begins by introducing as many animal and plant species as possible to ensure a complete natural cycle, a guarantee of balance in all biological phenomena... and thus your peace of mind.

We offer, in addition to the ZollaBox Start (microbial biodiversity) and Clear Water XL (to limit green water), a number of plants ideal for our climates (water mint, purple loosestrife, marsh iris, duckweed...), but also detritivorous invertebrates that ensure the natural recycling of waste and algae, such as the famous water lice, and various snails like the friendly bladder snail or the well-known ramshorn snail.

The key word must be: more life, more diversity, for a more resilient pond.