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It is gong to get better soon as I've got a log cabin to go looking over the pond on a 7' high platform. I just need this snow to bugger off then I can put it together and make a video of it. Thanks for watching.
The pond gets fished once a year to check on the condition of the fish (usually late spring). I always make sure I feed the koi etc heavily on floating food at one end then fish the other end to catch the coarse fish and avoid the koi. Usually I am amazed at the good health and quality of the fish we catch.
If you really are in Turkey as your profile says then I have no idea as thats thousands of miles away at the opposite end of Europe to where I live. If you were in England I would suggest Humberside fisheries but the wouldn't export due to CEFAS red tape.
I'll be posting a video soon of the wintry conditions we've got here at present and it is very nice with about 10" of snow it looks beautiful. This is the first proper winter we've had for about 20 years though, most of the time it is miserable, dull and wet - well depressing. I fully intend to move to warmer climate within 18 months and dig a swimming pond or get a house near a river or stream that I can divert to a big pond. Dreams, only dreams.
I can relate. But I actually prefer being warm an/or boiling as opposed to feeling very cold. I remember on a trip to Cameron Highlands (where the temperature is a lot lower) I kept freezing my butt of everytime I had to take a dump. I also found that I don't function well in the cold, I just want to bundle up in a blankie and watch tv all day.
havent seen this vid yet, your pond is absolutely beautiful sir. natural beauty at its finest.....i am way jealous. i thought my pond was a sizeable one, i now realize i am a midget in this pond world. lol.
and i dont think i would call that a koi pond, so much as its a koi lake....lol. with a lake that size, you wouldnt need a tank.
Thanks, man. I do enjoy the pond but get frustrated when I can't see the fish in the summer (with them stirring up the clay bottom) as I would in a conventional pond. Minor dwawback though as the health and happiness of the fish is most important. I will try to remove some of the fry to bring on in smaller ponds/tanks this year as the survival rate must be about 0.00001% with the wrath of the visiting Kingfishers and the Perch that inhabit the pond. Why did I put them fellas in???
well, it looks great, i bet the birds could become a problem. and your very right, the health is important, and i bet them having that(clay bottom, more natural habitat) is prob the best they could have really. perch in there too? i bet you could go fishing in that pond, lol. j/k. but perch are good eating.
I actually trap the perch out and give them away to fishing clubs. A couple of times a year I invite two of the lads that work for me to fish the pond just to check on the coarse fish population and its amazing what is in there. I make sure to heavily feed the koi, orfe etc. prior to fishing to prevent them being caught - they tend to hang aroung the automatic fish feeder anyway and they fish the other side.
that is awesome man, very smart thinking as well. i would think with perfect conditions like that, you would have population booms of both. just curious, how much water is that in there? well, i guess the dimensions anyway. looks enormous. :)
A conservative estimate would be about 300,000 gallons (1,362,000 litres) by working on a internal rectangle. By the time the outer bits are taken into consideration and judging by how long it took to fill up from the hose and spring combined (30 days) it may be nearer 430,000-450,000 gallons. The level can be raised by about 10" by lifting the outlet 90 degree outlet which will add thousands more gallons. If the 2.5m high x 30m long dam wall collapses my house is history!
The dam wall is made of good clay covered with PVC to prevent erosion so it will be there for a log time yet. In the first few months of the pond I dreamt that the wall broke and the fish were all stranded in the field on many occasions as I'd never built anything so ambitious. I never worry about that now as the 100' high tree near out house is more likely to destroy the house than a dam burst. Honestly, its like living under the sword of Damacles.
holy crap......scary, with the dam worry, but awesome nonetheless. that is freakin sweet man. im seriously jealous. a koi pond big enough to boat on, lol.
I have a wife who won't let me get a tank for the house in case I then get a massive one that you could swim around in. Thats what happened with the pond situation, but its better to have one massive pond than several smaller ones.
I am converting my polytunnel to grow livebearers from spring to autumn of this year so then I'll have some tropicals - about 10.000 of them hopefully.
I can see a giant tank being a reasonable hazard for small kids, flooring and not to mention the space it would occupy when it, in a womans view (no disrespecting your wife) could hold an entire wardrobe for whats hot next year.
I could also quite happily live on a Scotish island, Canada, Norway, Sweden etc. I think that the common theme is wilderness and adventure. I don't like shops and crowds of people - BUT I like to see crowds of people in my shop.
I would really like to go on survival wwekends with the kids when they are a bit older in a country where I was learning as much as them. Here it gets boring where you recognise every sound and sign when you go walkabout.
Everyone likes to know their buisness is going well. I have a question for you about the fish trade in th UK. Is it going better, worse or pretty much the same from before in terms of popularity. Breakthroughs in filtration systems, protein skimmers and other equipment have made this an easier yet more expensive hobby. And as the economy is yet to stabilize, do you think more and more people have lost interest in fishkeeping?
The biggest problem we have is with internet companies selling stuff for peanuts then people bringing broken down pumps and filters to us for advice/repair after the internet company (guy in bedroom) doesn't want to know about a refund or makes the return proceedure so difficult. That gets my goat.
as we have rent, staff etc. mostly we cannot match the prices and still make profit. It is harder and harder but we want to be known for range/quality of fish that can't be matched in our area.
I am working on that, but as I have made the websites myself I want to build the online shop myself so that I don't have to pay people to update it etc. Problem is I'm just a beginner and it takes an age.
Hi Pondguru....Love your Lake LOL oh the benefits of having such a large area...you can see the fish without having to put a net over the pond...we have to as we have 2 regular sets of Herons who do find our pond very interesting LOL.
We used to be plagued by Herons until the pond was fenced off. Once the fence was electrified there was no more Otter problem and since I installed the big air pump, strangely there have been no Cormorants on the pond although one was sitting in a tree near the pond recently...then it just fell out stone dead - how strange. The kingfisher roosts on the pond and hammers the fry but I love to see it. There is a video of it called 'Kingfisher on my pond' if you want to check that out. Its a beauty.
There are always loads of frogs about in other parts of the garden but strangely I don't notice many in the pond. In April there are hundreds of toads appear to spawn in the pond.
Also, that's how fish should feed naturally, when they are not desperate for introduced food. Sometimes they don't come up at all as they are rooting around on the bottom or feeding in the weed beds.
Yup, I wonder how many people were busy composing a text response about how there were too many fish in there only to see the panoramic and go "Woah, man. Look at the size of that"
Believe it or not I was gutted when we built it as we could have gone about 3m longer and I often think I would like a bigger one. My dream is to acquire the field in front of my house and divert springs and lay drains to feed a 300m long lake but I doubt it will happen..........
Most of the fish spawn, but I have no idea how many survive the Kingfishers wrath. They do grow quickly but will grow super quick once I start feeding them on Trout pellets in the near future.
It is an Aqua One 12.000 air pump and I think they go for around £120-130. Mine pumps through a 1/2" hosepipe (weighted down) so produces huge glooping bubbles. I sometimes attach a home made 'air ring' made from the rubbery leaky pipe coiled up in an 18" circle if I want lots of smaller bubbles.
Although there is an abundance of natural food, I still spend quite a bit on feed. Pellets for the fish, veggies for the terrapins, barley for the ducks (winter) and hot lead for the cormorants.
what heppens to the fish and the koi pond when snowing do the fish die
ajgurung7 5 months ago
The pond is 15 feet deep so it doesn't freeze. They survive the winer no worries.
pondguru 5 months ago
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Gregmills007 1 year ago
you must be the happiest person in the world i want a pond like that too
visualkeirockstar 1 year ago
It is gong to get better soon as I've got a log cabin to go looking over the pond on a 7' high platform. I just need this snow to bugger off then I can put it together and make a video of it. Thanks for watching.
pondguru 1 year ago
@pondguru I know they are your pets but have you ever fished for them?
R3ptil3s 1 year ago
The pond gets fished once a year to check on the condition of the fish (usually late spring). I always make sure I feed the koi etc heavily on floating food at one end then fish the other end to catch the coarse fish and avoid the koi. Usually I am amazed at the good health and quality of the fish we catch.
pondguru 1 year ago
@pondguru hey do you know any places to buy carp? i just dug a clay lined pond and would like to stock it with carp in the spring
R3ptil3s 1 year ago
If you really are in Turkey as your profile says then I have no idea as thats thousands of miles away at the opposite end of Europe to where I live. If you were in England I would suggest Humberside fisheries but the wouldn't export due to CEFAS red tape.
pondguru 1 year ago
hey its as big as a swimming pool let go swimmin in there.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
Unfortunately, it never gets warmer in the UK to swim outdoors. I want to move to a warmer country and dig another huge hole.
pondguru 2 years ago
Do you know how lucky you are?
i live in a warm country and we die of heat when its winter its like paradise .
swimmin is sooooooooooooooo fun!!!
espicially when its damn hot.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
I'll be posting a video soon of the wintry conditions we've got here at present and it is very nice with about 10" of snow it looks beautiful. This is the first proper winter we've had for about 20 years though, most of the time it is miserable, dull and wet - well depressing. I fully intend to move to warmer climate within 18 months and dig a swimming pond or get a house near a river or stream that I can divert to a big pond. Dreams, only dreams.
pondguru 2 years ago
what the temp cuz in my place it goes to 46 c in summer and 6 in winter.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
We're lucky to have mid 20's in summer although the odd day can be 30+. Right now its been 0 to -6 for a couple of weeks.
46 is tooooo hot, man.
pondguru 2 years ago
i die of heat i play soccer and i have to splash my self every 2 minutes my friends sometimes faint cuz of playing a lot.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
Great way for me to loose weight. Thats probably why most folks in hotter countries play less energetic sports like cricket.
pondguru 2 years ago
actually cricket is really hard to play.
it requires very good reflexes which i lack
commonSagitario 2 years ago
badminton is less energetive.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
Reflexes or not, compared to football its fairly sedate.
pondguru 2 years ago
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commonSagitario 2 years ago
I get a sweat on just being in a hot country so any sport would be great for my fitness levels.
My body is a temple.
A ruined neglected temple.
pondguru 2 years ago
turn it into the great wall of china.
lol
commonSagitario 2 years ago
I can relate. But I actually prefer being warm an/or boiling as opposed to feeling very cold. I remember on a trip to Cameron Highlands (where the temperature is a lot lower) I kept freezing my butt of everytime I had to take a dump. I also found that I don't function well in the cold, I just want to bundle up in a blankie and watch tv all day.
blownable 2 years ago
At least you dont hibernate.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
I might try that next time I go to Cameron Highlands. I certainly have enough fat to survive one.
blownable 2 years ago
havent seen this vid yet, your pond is absolutely beautiful sir. natural beauty at its finest.....i am way jealous. i thought my pond was a sizeable one, i now realize i am a midget in this pond world. lol.
and i dont think i would call that a koi pond, so much as its a koi lake....lol. with a lake that size, you wouldnt need a tank.
10kpondguy 2 years ago
Thanks, man. I do enjoy the pond but get frustrated when I can't see the fish in the summer (with them stirring up the clay bottom) as I would in a conventional pond. Minor dwawback though as the health and happiness of the fish is most important. I will try to remove some of the fry to bring on in smaller ponds/tanks this year as the survival rate must be about 0.00001% with the wrath of the visiting Kingfishers and the Perch that inhabit the pond. Why did I put them fellas in???
pondguru 2 years ago
well, it looks great, i bet the birds could become a problem. and your very right, the health is important, and i bet them having that(clay bottom, more natural habitat) is prob the best they could have really. perch in there too? i bet you could go fishing in that pond, lol. j/k. but perch are good eating.
10kpondguy 2 years ago
I actually trap the perch out and give them away to fishing clubs. A couple of times a year I invite two of the lads that work for me to fish the pond just to check on the coarse fish population and its amazing what is in there. I make sure to heavily feed the koi, orfe etc. prior to fishing to prevent them being caught - they tend to hang aroung the automatic fish feeder anyway and they fish the other side.
pondguru 2 years ago
that is awesome man, very smart thinking as well. i would think with perfect conditions like that, you would have population booms of both. just curious, how much water is that in there? well, i guess the dimensions anyway. looks enormous. :)
10kpondguy 2 years ago
A conservative estimate would be about 300,000 gallons (1,362,000 litres) by working on a internal rectangle. By the time the outer bits are taken into consideration and judging by how long it took to fill up from the hose and spring combined (30 days) it may be nearer 430,000-450,000 gallons. The level can be raised by about 10" by lifting the outlet 90 degree outlet which will add thousands more gallons. If the 2.5m high x 30m long dam wall collapses my house is history!
pondguru 2 years ago
so are the fishes.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
The dam wall is made of good clay covered with PVC to prevent erosion so it will be there for a log time yet. In the first few months of the pond I dreamt that the wall broke and the fish were all stranded in the field on many occasions as I'd never built anything so ambitious. I never worry about that now as the 100' high tree near out house is more likely to destroy the house than a dam burst. Honestly, its like living under the sword of Damacles.
pondguru 2 years ago
Your in great danger a pond and a 100 feet tall tree.
Just kiddin I live in a 17 floor apartment.
Im in 13th floor the unlucky number my flat number is 1113
omg!!!
commonSagitario 2 years ago
Being afraid of heights, I would walk about with a parachute strapped to my back if I lived there. I live in a bungalow.
pondguru 2 years ago
no worries!!
im afraid of ghosts
lol not heights or clowns.
commonSagitario 2 years ago
holy crap......scary, with the dam worry, but awesome nonetheless. that is freakin sweet man. im seriously jealous. a koi pond big enough to boat on, lol.
10kpondguy 2 years ago
How can you own a pond but not a tank? (though it probably justifies that you're pondguru, not tankguru)
blownable 2 years ago
I have a wife who won't let me get a tank for the house in case I then get a massive one that you could swim around in. Thats what happened with the pond situation, but its better to have one massive pond than several smaller ones.
I am converting my polytunnel to grow livebearers from spring to autumn of this year so then I'll have some tropicals - about 10.000 of them hopefully.
pondguru 2 years ago
I can see a giant tank being a reasonable hazard for small kids, flooring and not to mention the space it would occupy when it, in a womans view (no disrespecting your wife) could hold an entire wardrobe for whats hot next year.
blownable 2 years ago
I could quite happily live on a tropical paradise and wear a grass skirt. Clothes.... who needs 'em?
pondguru 2 years ago
I don't see that idea going very well with your family. And I thought you wanted to move to new zealand.........*dramatic music*, Richard.
blownable 2 years ago
I could also quite happily live on a Scotish island, Canada, Norway, Sweden etc. I think that the common theme is wilderness and adventure. I don't like shops and crowds of people - BUT I like to see crowds of people in my shop.
I would really like to go on survival wwekends with the kids when they are a bit older in a country where I was learning as much as them. Here it gets boring where you recognise every sound and sign when you go walkabout.
pondguru 2 years ago
Everyone likes to know their buisness is going well. I have a question for you about the fish trade in th UK. Is it going better, worse or pretty much the same from before in terms of popularity. Breakthroughs in filtration systems, protein skimmers and other equipment have made this an easier yet more expensive hobby. And as the economy is yet to stabilize, do you think more and more people have lost interest in fishkeeping?
blownable 2 years ago
The biggest problem we have is with internet companies selling stuff for peanuts then people bringing broken down pumps and filters to us for advice/repair after the internet company (guy in bedroom) doesn't want to know about a refund or makes the return proceedure so difficult. That gets my goat.
as we have rent, staff etc. mostly we cannot match the prices and still make profit. It is harder and harder but we want to be known for range/quality of fish that can't be matched in our area.
pondguru 2 years ago
Maybe you should also have an online purchase system for those living too far from your store to drive ther for convenience.
blownable 2 years ago
I am working on that, but as I have made the websites myself I want to build the online shop myself so that I don't have to pay people to update it etc. Problem is I'm just a beginner and it takes an age.
pondguru 2 years ago
Hi Pondguru....Love your Lake LOL oh the benefits of having such a large area...you can see the fish without having to put a net over the pond...we have to as we have 2 regular sets of Herons who do find our pond very interesting LOL.
Toshncharon 2 years ago
We used to be plagued by Herons until the pond was fenced off. Once the fence was electrified there was no more Otter problem and since I installed the big air pump, strangely there have been no Cormorants on the pond although one was sitting in a tree near the pond recently...then it just fell out stone dead - how strange. The kingfisher roosts on the pond and hammers the fry but I love to see it. There is a video of it called 'Kingfisher on my pond' if you want to check that out. Its a beauty.
pondguru 2 years ago
Nice Pond/kois. I have a Question, Are Money plants Toxic To koi ??
chengaun 2 years ago
As its not a native to England, I have no idea. Maybe so, maybe no.
pondguru 2 years ago
Nice pond, very peaceful, lots of birds in the area! bet it is a frog haven too!
thePondHunter 2 years ago
There are always loads of frogs about in other parts of the garden but strangely I don't notice many in the pond. In April there are hundreds of toads appear to spawn in the pond.
pondguru 2 years ago
they're not so hungry aren't they?
dhoncave 2 years ago
The auto feeder delivers six feeds a day so food I put in is supplemental. There is so much natural food in there also.
pondguru 2 years ago
Also, that's how fish should feed naturally, when they are not desperate for introduced food. Sometimes they don't come up at all as they are rooting around on the bottom or feeding in the weed beds.
pondguru 2 years ago
nice pond is it yours?
oscarfishguy15 2 years ago
Yes.
pondguru 2 years ago
Woah nice pond its HUGE
Kribensis007 2 years ago
I still want a bigger one though. Guess its the way of the male. Thats how people ultimately end up with 50" TV screens.
pondguru 2 years ago
Woah.....that is a monster pond!! They'll be happy in that space.
rossyt99 2 years ago
Yup, I wonder how many people were busy composing a text response about how there were too many fish in there only to see the panoramic and go "Woah, man. Look at the size of that"
pondguru 2 years ago
Your pond is enourmous!
berlinproductions 2 years ago
Believe it or not I was gutted when we built it as we could have gone about 3m longer and I often think I would like a bigger one. My dream is to acquire the field in front of my house and divert springs and lay drains to feed a 300m long lake but I doubt it will happen..........
pondguru 2 years ago
Looks great, any idea how large they have grown, and do they spawn, if so I guess you have no idea how many are in there,Terry
tel51 2 years ago
Most of the fish spawn, but I have no idea how many survive the Kingfishers wrath. They do grow quickly but will grow super quick once I start feeding them on Trout pellets in the near future.
pondguru 2 years ago
Nice lake and is that a huge air pump in the middle ? :o oh and cool orfe and koi lol
N0zProductions 2 years ago
Yes, its a large air pump. 6600 litres per hour. Considering that it is over 5m deep where it is it does a great job.
pondguru 2 years ago
Nice how much did the air pump cost you ?
N0zProductions 2 years ago
It is an Aqua One 12.000 air pump and I think they go for around £120-130. Mine pumps through a 1/2" hosepipe (weighted down) so produces huge glooping bubbles. I sometimes attach a home made 'air ring' made from the rubbery leaky pipe coiled up in an 18" circle if I want lots of smaller bubbles.
pondguru 2 years ago
My air pump was only £33 xD
N0zProductions 2 years ago
Healthy Looking fish, natural ponds do look good, that sure is some sized LAKE
howarth004 2 years ago
Although there is an abundance of natural food, I still spend quite a bit on feed. Pellets for the fish, veggies for the terrapins, barley for the ducks (winter) and hot lead for the cormorants.
pondguru 2 years ago
Poor old Cormorants????? Just like the Herons, I have a Air Pistol at the ready
howarth004 2 years ago
.17HMR throws a ballistic tipped missile of death at 2500f.p.s Cormorants are built for a life at sea so are very robust. Not robust enough though.
pondguru 2 years ago