Summer 2025
The first season ran July 11 – August 9, 2025: nine “frogs,” thirty days in the house, and a finale crowning a winner. Highlights and edited episodes have been discussed for release after the live run.
El Salvador · streaming reality
El Estanque (“The Pond”) is a livestreamed reality competition: a house full of challengers, cameras rolling around the clock, and one winner at the end. Tune in where the show actually airs — the official stream lives at elestanque.live.
Interactive live experience
The format echoes the energy of Fishtank-style living-quarters shows: strangers share a space, compete, and get cut until a single champion remains. Production is rooted in El Salvador, with cast ties across Central America and beyond.
The first season ran July 11 – August 9, 2025: nine “frogs,” thirty days in the house, and a finale crowning a winner. Highlights and edited episodes have been discussed for release after the live run.
A shorter off-season event went live in February 2026 with a compact ~20-day runtime — a tighter experiment with a smaller starting cast.
Creator-led & fan-born: El Estanque was spearheaded by producer Roberto (known online as CappyCat), building on a love for the genre and community demand after Fishtank Season 4 ended mid-season — a grassroots pond that grew into its own phenomenon.
The show wears its inspiration proudly — and it connected directly to the wider ecosystem. In July 2025, house feeds joined the Fishtank.live platform alongside other programming, boosting visibility for new viewers.
Fishtank season pass holders could use fishtokens on El Estanque streams for text-to-speech and sound effects — so the audience could shape the room’s energy without buying a separate subscription on that platform.
Clips, recaps, and community energy spill onto social — the official home for the live multi-camera experience remains the stream.