Supes13;1907651; said:
would you drain and insulate the pond during the winter then if your koi are not in there?
I will drain the water out of my indoor pond in November.
The Koi will be taken into the main house, into my basement, and spend the winter in a 140gal aquarium.
My idea is this, (As seen in my YouTube clip)
That as I have a indoor pond in a room where it is sitting right up next to a window, and as it's just a cheap single pane window, I could take out the window glass and replace the glass with plexiglass.
With a plexiglass window there (in place of the glass) I could cut a hole in this plexiglass window with ease and this would allow me to slide an 8"inch diameter water pipe out this window.
Now this 8"inch water pipe would be about a foot or two long and have a 90' bend on each end that would dip down into the indoor pond on one side and the outdoor pond on the other end outside of the window.
(Im not sure how to explane that better,Thats why the YouTube video)
Think of two 4x8 above ground ponds sitting right next to each other, with a 8"inch water pipe that come up out of one, goes over the edge of that pond, over the edge of the other pond , then dips down into this 2nd pond.
In this way fish would be able to swim up from one pond and get to the other pond via this water bridge.
Now when winter comes here and it starts to get too cold for the unheated ponds I would just catch the fish and drain them of all the water.
I guess I would cover them with plywood to keep the snow out and that would be it until Spring.
THE QUESTION:
The main question I have before I go to the trouble to build this 2-pond system is that I have always seen a ton of bugs in every outdoor pond I have looked at.
Every outdoor pond has bugs in it.
Some bugs swim around, some stay on top of the water.
Thats fine for an outdoor pond, but my 2-pond system has my indoor pond water mixing with the outdoor pond water.
This connected 2-pond design could be a lot of trouble for would it not allow all the outdoor bugs that breed in water a way to get into my home?
Would ne be like having an open window all the time with bugs all over the house that have hatched in the ponds?
Thats what i need to address before I start to build this.
I need to know if anyone , (well anyone who lives in a area of the world with the same bug problems we got here in North Dakota), has ever build, or heard of a indoor/outdoor Koi pond such as Im right now designing?
How do I handle the underwater bug situation?
