Koi Pond Updated 9-5-2008

Koi pond after digging it out to 4 feet deep and adding 6 feet to the width.
I worked most of the spring and summer enlarging my koi pond and adding a different filter system. For More information visit http://koipondfever.com

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Koi
• Pond
• Japanese
• Showa
• Sanke
• Ochiba
• Shigure
• Gin
• Rin
• Goshiki
• Utsuri
• Shusui
• Kikokuryu
• Kumonryu
• Yamabuki
• Ogon

[hypeOff]

nice collection of kois though maybe giving away or selling the chagois, some orange kohakus, some of those sankes will sparkle up the pond more with your koi collection. and it will let your other kois have more space to grow to its maxist size.

[moorestuff]

I had planned on culling some of the koi in the spring.

[hooinc]

Have you had this pond long? Proper koi ponds normally need bottom drains. Also, rocks and gravel at the bottom drain are not good. When you clean it out, you will realise that it is a cesspool and you wouldn't want your koi to live in that. Koi will not thrive in a pond without bottom drains. They may survive, but even then not for too long.

[moorestuff]

I have had it this way for 7 years and have not had any problems with my koi. Japanese mud ponds don't have bottom drains either. The gravel gives the koi a natural place to forage and the plants a place to root. I have koi in the upper part of the pond that I never feed. The fry in the upper pool grew 3 times faster than the fry in the lower pool. It is the muck that is under the surface of the gravel that hosts organisms that the koi will eat. It also hosts anaerobic denitrifying bacteria.

[hooinc]

Nice koi. Are those rocks at the bottom? You don't use bottom drains? Hope you will check out my koi and pond on my channel too. Cheers.

[moorestuff]

Thanks! Yes I do use gravel on the bottom and no I do not have a bottom drain. My filtration is totally bilogical with gravel and plants. I checked your videos and I must say you do have some nice koi!

[stvnivan]

cool pond and cool koi's but some of your Koi's are UGLY, why don't you sell or give away your UGLY koi :P

[SIMKOI]

very nice,a different set up to what we would use here in the uk for a koi pond,,but seams to be working well for you,,feel free to have a look at my video's of my pond....

[moorestuff]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[javiakasku11one]

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!