DANNY
Koi Lover
Feb 25, 2002, 1:59 PM
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Hi Mr Tong, Thanks for your reply and encouragement. I strongly agree with what you mentioned, we can't get anywhere to find a better forum that this one. I am glad that I started to search the internet after I have spoken with a few friends about my idea of starting a koi pond of my own, and one of them suggested me to search the net for more information. I am learning more and more every time I come to his forum. It is better that reading books about koi (since most of the koi books are written by foreigners in other countries) Since you are in the North of cause I wouldn't expect you to know any good koi pond contractor in Johor...anyway, Next week I am going to visit 2 koi farms in Johor, one in Senai and one in Kulai, which also referred by my friends, to ask for contacts of pond contractors. I am sure I will be able to get some links there. Thanks for you comments, and many thanks to Mr Khoo's advices too. You know what? since I am new here starting from ground zero. I intend to start posting my plan and progress of my new koi pond in-making to this forum so that other subsequent new comers may benefit from it too.
Well, I am lucky enough to have 2 friends that are keeping koi, one in KL and one in JB here. The one in Johor has a big pond of the size of a swimming pool. (I guess) From my estimate, his pond should be about 20 feet long, 10 feet width and 5 feet deep, and his is keeping about some 80 koi's in his pond! He has a 4 compartments bio-filtering system which I am yet to understand the technicalities......before I started to build my own bio-filtering system.
Thanks for your suggestion about getting a bigger pond instead of a small one. I got your point. Others also said the same to me. By the way, just for your information and may be later discussions with others, I am going to build a pond of about 5 feet wide and 10 feet long, 4-5 feet depth, and I intend to grow about 20-30 koi's, would there be sufficient space for the koi's to move around? (I think my friend's pond has too heavy traffic!) By the way, how do I calculate the water needed for the pond of this size? It the tap water in Malaysia safe for koi pond? Should I insist to get a 4-compartment bio-filtering system? or may be a 3-compartment bio-filtering system is enough for my pond (to-be)?
Any sifu would kind enough to give me some more advice before I start commit to a contractor to build my pond would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Danny
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Hi , wow what a nice pond . Do you to share with us roughly how much was spent for this pond ? I have a friend who intend to build one . [I did not recommended to him mine because it is a lauya one ] 
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how deep is that?