Ponds of Nothingness :(

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Jack Dempsey
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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! :headbang2

Thanks for stopping by :)
 
Thanks :)

Actually can't decide what fishes to put in the newest pond. What would you guys stock it with? I'd like to have monster fishes but I think a balance is important as currently the other pond's fishes are fed pellets every other day or sometimes even less because the pond pretty much sustains itself; sometimes the fish don't even bother with the food and I've never seen a single dead fish - mother nature doesn't let anything go to waste.
 
[PIMPIN];4662074; said:
Thanks :)

Actually can't decide what fishes to put in the newest pond. What would you guys stock it with? I'd like to have monster fishes but I think a balance is important as currently the other pond's fishes are fed pellets every other day or sometimes even less because the pond pretty much sustains itself; sometimes the fish don't even bother with the food and I've never seen a single dead fish - mother nature doesn't let anything go to waste.

i'd put 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 neon tetras in it..:) no but really i'd load it with RTC, TSN, CK, and whatever other monster fish i could get ot go in it
 
wow that was a pleasant surprise.... wooohooooo greatness..love your ponds:D and your KOI
 
spadoc79;4662413; said:
i'd put 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 neon tetras in it..:) no but really i'd load it with RTC, TSN, CK, and whatever other monster fish i could get ot go in it

Hahah what's with everyone on MFK asking for billions of neon tetras each time someone posts big pond. :grinno:

I'd definitely want some RTCs though, by far the cutest fish period. Unfortunately, that house is located in the northern part of Malaysia bordering Thailand and we've had extremely bad weather with around 40,000 people evacuated due to flooding only 2 weeks ago so I can't complete the new pond (as in expand to include land beside it) until early next year.

Red Devil;4662447; said:
wow that was a pleasant surprise.... wooohooooo greatness..love your ponds:D and your KOI

Thanks :D

The Koi were actually the cheapest my friend had in stock at his shop which had just opened for business around about the same time my house was ready so was also a show of support for his new business. At that point I knew nothing about Koi and unfortunately still don't haha.

Although they're only around USD$20 each which is cheap I guess compared to the USD$5-10k ones he usually sells, I could never get rid of them because over past two years they've become friendly, eat out of my hand etc. In fact, they even eat less if someone else feeds them which is unavoidable since my time is split between the houses.

Anyways, my current priority is the second pond which I've actually made a thread about here: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=372626 and again in the Ancient Fish section but so far no input from any Arapaima owners just yet.
 
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