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I would like to know how many koi rec.ponder's are really stocking in
their ponds. I have seen the recommended stock postings, yet I wonder what is really being done by the average pond enthusiast. Preface, As of right now I have an approximate 1500 gallon pond with 5 Koi, 2 comets, 3 feeder goldfish(Don't really want them - just inherited them) and hundreds of mosquito fish. In addition I have ton's of WH, 5 water Lilies, Hornwort, Anacharis and a bunch of marginals. But that is not where I started.... I built my first pond when I was 13, my dad bought a tetra flexible liner and I dug the hole and put it in. We used this for a couple of years then I swithed to fiberglass stock tanks then finally to preformed liners. I had never had anything larger than 200 gallons. For the first 8 years I had no plants at all – just fish. I started with 12 Koi. Yes, 12. Nedra... get up off the floor. ![]() all around 2-3 inches when I bought them. The first 2 years I kept them outside in the summer and inside during the winter. Then in the summer of my third year I was cleaning the pond when I had to leave for a while and I accidently left the pump draining the pond. Needless to say I lost 7 fish. Some to the lack of water, others to sunburning. The remaining 5 fish stayed in the pond year round after that. I never used chemicals for algae, nor did I have ANY filtration. Frequent well water changes where it. We lost 3 of the five during the 5 years I was at college. Not all at once, nor in the same year. My remaining two fish stayed at my parents house until 1998 when I moved them to my 200 gallon pond I put in at my new house. This was the first time they had ever had a filter, in addition I started to use algae controllers since I was on city water and couldn't change it like I did before. 3 years ago I almost lost both of them to disease after a really cold winter and bad sludge problems in the pond. At this time I had the two original fish plus 1 of the koi mentioned above and the two comets in the pond. I medicated them with a ton of medication and brought them back from sick curled up floaters to healthy fish. Later that year I lost one of the two original to the same disease. The other made it until last year when he mysteriously died while I was on vacation. I examined him but there was no sign of disease. He was 16 years old and had spent his life in less than 200 gallons and was the friendliest fish I have ever had. So, I have read the rules. I have seen the wolves (maybe raccoon's is more appropriate) attack those who admit to not following the rules, yet my experience breaks the rules. I don't see many postings from those who are apparently overstocking. Perhaps they are scared of the raccoon's like I was. I know I cannot be the only one who has done this, so I am curious what others are really doing. |
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