Pond Progress

[3ndl3r]

Hey all,

In this thread, i will be posting the progress of my pond.

Here it is so far

Sand going in!

Liner going in.

Filling er' up!

Thats as far as i am at the moment. My next step will be to wait for the pond plant season to come around. Then add the filtration, which i haven't decided on yet.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Looking good so far !

 

[3ndl3r]

Cheers Tokis

What filtration would you recommmend?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Cheers Tokis

What filtration would you recommmend?

I personally got a Hozelock gravity-fed filtration system for my pond, so far mine has been constantly running for about 2years and has never had any problems .

 

[3ndl3r]

I was thinking about maybe a hozelock easyclear?

Cheers

 

[3ndl3r]

hey

anyone know when it will be warm enough to add the golfish to the pond? Could really do with getting the current tank restarted and going for Discus.

Cheers

 

[3ndl3r]

quick update

pond is complete, full of water and filtered by a Ponduett 3000

Current fish stock is
2 Goldfish
1 Shubunkin
1 Comet
1 Koi
1 Ghost/mirror koi/carp

Looks good, got rid of that stupid blue thing and planted that area up still needs more plants etc , but its work in progress

Pics in the next few days or so..

 

[saltynay]

Picture or it didn't happen

 

[3ndl3r]

hehe, i will have some piccies up by the weekend. Just really busy at the minute. And it's dark

 

[3ndl3r]

OK i have pics, but PB is being abit of an a$$, will get pics up as soon as.

 

[saltynay]

You could use imageshack

 

[chr15_8]

Pond is way to small for koi and again too small for a carp/ghost koi.

good luck with the pond though

 

[fifefish]

Im sure you can add the fish now,
aslong as the water is above 15C

 

[3ndl3r]

yeah fish are active and feeding well

Pond is way to small for koi and again too small for a carp/ghost koi.

good luck with the pond though

Ok 1. You have no idea how big my pond is.
2. The kois are no longer than 6 or 7 inches. so the pond is plenty big enough until i have time to expand

 

[chr15_8]

yeah fish are active and feeding well

Pond is way to small for koi and again too small for a carp/ghost koi.

good luck with the pond though

Ok 1. You have no idea how big my pond is.
2. The kois are no longer than 6 or 7 inches. so the pond is plenty big enough until i have time to expand

1. i would estimate appoxmitly 5ft long x 32inch deep x 32 inch wide giving you about 1000 liters and just under 200 gallons
2. i would presume the koi is about 1 year old. by the end of this season if it is in proper conditions would be about 10 inch atleast. the first year of the kois life is the most important imo when it improves its skin/pattern and growth.

i was just clearly pointing out that the pond is too small for any type of carp it was abit of advice.