Being new to the hobby, I've yet to acquire any monster fish but I do have some ponds which are stocked with various types of fishes such as Koi, Catfish, Tilapia, Jelawat (Mad Barb/Sultan Fish?), Puyu (Climbing Perch?), Haruan (Channa striatus) and Patin.
Aside from the Koi, the rest are meant to be eaten and before anyone panics, they're not all placed in the same pond; there are several ponds and if I had to guess I'd have to say they number about 10,000 in total (excluding my Koi).
Anyways, before I get banned for not having any pictures here's a bad picture of the Koi pond which is located at my main house in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia. The pond isn't overstocked as its an L-shaped and extends another 12 feet around the corner or so and even under the wooden bridge straight ahead. To be perfectly honest, I'm not a Koi person but I bought the house brand new and the pond (6400 liters) comes with it so I just bought the regular ones, nothing fancy. Would look silly having an empty pond but every single house has the same design layout.
The second pond is a purely natural setup using river water which cycles continuously without any form of filtration and relies on the natural water pressure so no pumps, etc. About to be demolished and expanded from its current size of 28,000 liters to accommodate some monster fish but previously had catfish and some tilapia all of which have been eaten this past week. Started off with 2000 catfish fry about a year ago but as of today the pond has no fish. I try to spend one night a week each week as it helps me relax and refocus on work, etc.
This is probably the most mature pond I have and was dug close to 15 years ago and houses all of the fishes listed above and over the years we've probably restocked it several times in addition to them reproducing naturally in particular the tilapias. I have no idea how to estimate the size of the pond but the depth is over 10 feet at its deepest point.
This is still the same pond but from different angles. Sorry for the bad pictures as they weren't all taken at the same time as I'm only there about 5 days or so every month.
This is the latest pond which I've recently dug out and is currently empty. It's meant to take up the whole area but the rainy season came too soon so I'll have to wait for the next drought to merge the two. The new pond is at least 8 feet deep. I've yet to decide what to put in it once completed so suggestions would be good! Definitely monsters all the way.
There's actually another pond about 280,000 liters (25'x40'x10x) and is home to around 5,000 Puyu but I don't have any recent pictures on my PC but its a basic concrete pond and very old. Actually have a couple more ponds but I don't have any pictures as I probably go to either one of the houses maybe once a year. I'll try dig up some older pictures but there's not much to see really.
Anyways, that's all I have to share for now - hopefully once the second pond is extended and made deeper then I can finally be a real MFK!
Thanks for stopping by
Aside from the Koi, the rest are meant to be eaten and before anyone panics, they're not all placed in the same pond; there are several ponds and if I had to guess I'd have to say they number about 10,000 in total (excluding my Koi).
Anyways, before I get banned for not having any pictures here's a bad picture of the Koi pond which is located at my main house in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia. The pond isn't overstocked as its an L-shaped and extends another 12 feet around the corner or so and even under the wooden bridge straight ahead. To be perfectly honest, I'm not a Koi person but I bought the house brand new and the pond (6400 liters) comes with it so I just bought the regular ones, nothing fancy. Would look silly having an empty pond but every single house has the same design layout.

The second pond is a purely natural setup using river water which cycles continuously without any form of filtration and relies on the natural water pressure so no pumps, etc. About to be demolished and expanded from its current size of 28,000 liters to accommodate some monster fish but previously had catfish and some tilapia all of which have been eaten this past week. Started off with 2000 catfish fry about a year ago but as of today the pond has no fish. I try to spend one night a week each week as it helps me relax and refocus on work, etc.





This is probably the most mature pond I have and was dug close to 15 years ago and houses all of the fishes listed above and over the years we've probably restocked it several times in addition to them reproducing naturally in particular the tilapias. I have no idea how to estimate the size of the pond but the depth is over 10 feet at its deepest point.







This is still the same pond but from different angles. Sorry for the bad pictures as they weren't all taken at the same time as I'm only there about 5 days or so every month.






This is the latest pond which I've recently dug out and is currently empty. It's meant to take up the whole area but the rainy season came too soon so I'll have to wait for the next drought to merge the two. The new pond is at least 8 feet deep. I've yet to decide what to put in it once completed so suggestions would be good! Definitely monsters all the way.





There's actually another pond about 280,000 liters (25'x40'x10x) and is home to around 5,000 Puyu but I don't have any recent pictures on my PC but its a basic concrete pond and very old. Actually have a couple more ponds but I don't have any pictures as I probably go to either one of the houses maybe once a year. I'll try dig up some older pictures but there's not much to see really.
Anyways, that's all I have to share for now - hopefully once the second pond is extended and made deeper then I can finally be a real MFK!

Thanks for stopping by
