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Thread: Why do you keep koi
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14-12-2018, 07:48 PM #21
When i had my pond it was a progression from always having in some way having a passion for fish.
I have always fished with my uncle from an early age and then he got an aquarium as they where then called and i got that bug aswell..
After years of medium sized setup with tropical fish and then i liked the look of malawi and so did the missus until i totally sold it all off for a huge 650ltr setup and wild frontosa and all i can say she was not pleased.
Eventually i scaled down and decided to go for nice pond....
That went as we where meant to be moving....
Still have my aquarium of which im fishless cycling at present..
So for me it was a progression thing....
But do i miss not having a pond
No..
Not at all..You get what you pay for...
https://www.koiforum.uk/water-treatme...y-easypod.html
https://www.koiforum.uk/water-treatme...tom-drain.html
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14-12-2018, 09:31 PM #22
kept fish on and of for most of 40 years.
goldfish aquarium, tropical, pond.
4 years ago moved house, now have a big garden, existing pond but small.
Last summer got around to digging it bigger.
Already thinking its to small
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15-12-2018, 06:43 PM #23
When I did the garden 20 years ago I asked what the wife would like and she said a pond. So I built some walls and left a sunken pond shape in the garden. People kept asking what it was and I said "the fish pond". When I retired from corporate life I built an extension on the house but the good lady still harped on intermittently about her "fish pond" not being finished. So I did a lot of research, decided those fancy Japanese fish were the ones to get, followed a few forums (like this one) and eventually decided I needed to go big enough to make it worthwhile for Koi and simpler to manage. Got a wee digger in laid foundations and built a whole load of new walls, got in a wee digger in and built a sump under the greenhouse (2,000 litres) got a wee digger in again and took 20 tons out of the ground, (maybe got carried away there it was supposed to be around 10 tons). put in 8 tons of concrete (mixed on site) and filled with water to find I have 19-20,000 litres of water. So building the pond was as much about driving around in a wee digger as anything else!
Then the challenge begins - getting the filtration and water parameters to where they need to be for the fish. Luckily I went straight for some (not all) anoxic which I think stood me in good stead as I thrashed about trying to get things right but on my third iteration of a solids filter I got there with an RDF. Most of my original fish have stuck by me - a few smaller casualties on the way but more often down to poor fish quality and seagulls than anything else. My larger fish (over 11" when purchased) are all doing quite well.
Now I only need to sort out the bottom drain which I think has become partially blocked with decorative stones which fell from the top of my anoxic baskets!
Kenny
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