My Uncles Koi Pond

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Fire Eel
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So was at my uncles house for a party and I haven't checked his pond/breeding stock containers in a while.. Boy was I surprised. Guess MFKers run in the family lol. His pond is at least 14' long, 4' deep and 5' wide. There had to be at least 30-50 Koi of all different colors and sizes. I don't know squat about koi but my uncle's been importing some of these from Japan for a while hoping to develop a strain of his own. Anyway, Enjoy the pictures.

*I didn't take pics of his stock tanks filled with baby koi cause it got pretty late to get some decent pictures.

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I think my uncle was going to cull some of these.
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I remember this guy being in his pond for at least 5+ years. My uncle measured him a few weeks ago and he came in at 29.5". What a beast.
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I also remember this guy from a year ago when he was about 4" long. My uncle was about to cull him but hoped his orange spot would go away. From the pics, I guess that didn't happen lol.
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Beautiful koi and the water looks crystal. What filtration is your uncle using?


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Thanks. He made his own DIY filtration. From what I saw, it leads to about a 500-600gallon sump like thing, where its filtered through a ton of large chunks of activated carbon(I think) then it goes through some filter pads then loops around the length of the pond where theres a bunch of aquatic plants for more filtration I assume.

The koi are beautiful. Do you have a full pond shot? Im also curious what kind of filtration he has.

Is a FPS from above or from the side? His filtration unit doesn't look very nice, but it gets the job done.
 
Beautiful pond. When are you going back for more pics? Especially the FPS and baby kois. :)
 
So I finally got some pics. I couldn't get any good ones cause it was raining.. Sorry for the wait.

The box in the upper left corner is a holding tank for potential Koi my uncle wants to keep after the culling process. He culls about maybe 3-4 more times after they're in the box.
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The box on the upper right hand side is the filter.
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This is one of the grow out ponds for his fry. I wasn't able to get pics of the others.
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The filter. As you can see, it's pretty ghetto and simple lol.
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The next chamber of the filter. I have no idea whats in this thing lol.
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The pond may not look deep, but I measured and it's about 4.5 feet deep. I'm waiting for him to ditch the koi and move onto bigger fish lol.

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