You flatter me.. ? The unfortunate truth is I will be leaving in a rented apartment for the foreseeable future. I.e either getting out of the hobby completely or downsizing heavily. Of course if I had the means to build a pond, I would.. lol
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You flatter me.. ? The unfortunate truth is I will be leaving in a rented apartment for the foreseeable future. I.e either getting out of the hobby completely or downsizing heavily. Of course if I had the means to build a pond, I would.. lol
Too bad brother, from our severely limited and humble perspective, of course. We'll hope and pray time will come when you are back bigger and better.
I don't remember the number off the top of my head but the koi forums and websites contain the recommendations. It really depends on the planted and natural or not, filtration, aeration, overwintering, protection against predators or water lnd, and air, what you want out of the pond and fish, etc. Your dad and you would be extremely well advised to do lots of reading and watching lots of videos before starting with the concrete plans. This is the opposite of trivial for an average hobbyist.
We've done plenty of that. We have probably watched 5 hours of vids. But this is not a thread for my stuff. Sorry for the bother, and I am so sorry about the move too.
Essentially what
thebiggerthebetter
said. One thing that literally everyone who builds a pond says is that they wish they'd gone bigger/deeper 
Also, for koi especially, filtration is everything. For comparison, my pond is around 3.500 US gallons. The pond itself could handle more koi but the filtration doesn't even keep up well with what I have now.