koi pond idea ?

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oscar n redtail cat

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right i was aloud a pond for my rtc and tsn ect... but i sold them over sill talk so. im thinking of keeping koi just some japs and other random koi just out of LFS and off line but how should i do this ? should i have ot filter very well ? or should i leave it natrual with a load of buble pumps and a a water founting and a power head and plants and then have a single fillter that i can put on every 6 month for 1 week to clean the fish crap and dead plants off the bottom ? should i do that i like the natrual ponds alot i no koi ,normal carp ,goldfish ,tench ,barble, roach, bream and chub mabey others aswell would be ok i dont think sturgeon would be ok though would they ?
any advice would be great .
cheers
josh
 
y is this in the media section?
 
Beautiful Shusui, go for it. Just off to bed now, I'll keep tuned


 
yes ive got my house (well if it all gose through well) should do any way ! :D haha ill build my own might even just set up a swimming pool lol but i think pond liner is better though. but i think ill see what the money is i have on these fishies :D but thats if i get that far as i might become very illl yet i dont no :( but ill still try and keep them . so what should i stock ?
so far i have 5 mirror carp, 5 common carp , 10 ghost hybrid with mirror carp so thats 20 fosh and i might be getting 4 Shusui carp aswell and others but any nice ones and im thinking 3m by 2m by 2m for the pond . as its easy to get that size and decent size aswell as i will sell of some of the ghost and common and mirror carp aswell.
 
Your looking at 2600g(UK), twenty fish could be overstocked depending on the filtration used, you could get away with it I guess going silly on the filtration with a couple of Nexus 300s and a shower. Have you planned the filters yet?
 
well i dont no what im going with im planing around 20 carp and 5 tench and 5 barble 5 chub and thats it oh and some orfe aswell there nice but if any thing gets to big i can put them in my uncles pool or his fishing pools he has some 40lb his biggest carp in there monster (not his garden pond the fishery) but im thinking fo having a natarul pond like his garden one he has some nice size ghost carp and koi in there aswell ! and he got a 6lb tench out his fishery when he set it up so it could be bigger know !!haha would be a monster beeing in there 5 years , but you never no .
 
oscar n redtail cat;2880238; said:
well i dont no what im going with im planing around 20 carp and 5 tench and 5 barble 5 chub and thats it oh and some orfe aswell there nice but if any thing gets to big i can put them in my uncles pool or his fishing pools he has some 40lb his biggest carp in there monster (not his garden pond the fishery) but im thinking fo having a natarul pond like his garden one he has some nice size ghost carp and koi in there aswell ! and he got a 6lb tench out his fishery when he set it up so it could be bigger know !!haha would be a monster beeing in there 5 years , but you never no .
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Have you got any pictures of the planned area?
 
welll so far what im planing with the pond stock list is:
10 ghost koi carp low grade (not the normal ghost carp) soon to be 4
3 ghost koi carp A grade so it says ;)
5 common carp soon to be 2
5 mirror carp soon to be 2
6 tench
5 chub
3 grass carp
8 gold and blue orfe
4 crucuian carp (spelling lol)
and some nice koi aswell


for the fillteration on this pond im thiking on leaving it out and have one nice size one to turn on every know and then to clean up the bottom in thinking of a planted pond will do the list of plants soon.
and this pond i hope will be natrual pond as iv said about my uncles so ill ask him how to set it up. there will be a lot of plants in one conner and then a set of lilly pads in the middle, so then the water will have a nice green coulor to it as it looks nice like that mabey not see the tench and barble much but will be good though can get them out in years to come and see how much they have grown !!! haha.

the plant stock list:
1 set of lilly pads-Alba
5 large clumps of oxygen plants .(placed all over the pond)
simple uk native plants realy carnt think of the name lol but there 2 others aswell lol.


as for the pond size im thinking more of the size of 7ft by4ft-5ft mabey 2m but 2ft-30" deep .


fillteration will be not on at all unless ineed to clean the crap off the bottom every blue moon ! haha.
so i will instual a bubble pump and a water founting as the plant will oxygenat a lot any way but gives it more feacher aswell and current for the barble and chub as it will stock up the carp aswell make them much stocker looking . i will be spending a lot of money on this aswell . sigh. lol but other then that it will be worth it and am planing a wooden bass with some breesblokes around it aswell for extra surport depending on what is probley best for the stuckture , ANY advice on this is welcome ;).
so it should be a nice pond .

cheers
josh
 
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