water
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Aug 19, 2008, 9:49 AM
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Re: [HT3868] Building a koi pond
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A long rectangle pond is better.... with a 6 to 8 ft width x "the longer the length" is better dimension - if you can afford the space. Also, 3 feet is rather shallow, 5 to 6 feet of water depth is better. Then again, it depends on the quality and type of kois you intend to keep. My advice is to build the optimum pond as your hobby with koi will get yourself hooked and you will be gradually improving the quality of kois and getting to the jumbo level of fishes quickly. It would be difficult when you get the desire to own good Jumbos but only to discover that you didn't design your pond for it.
So, if the contractor did not advise this - he may have build ponds for other landscape / gold fish type and may not be well versed with Koi pond. Filtration of about 30% rough guide but efficency in water flow, dwell time of water, type of media, interaction surface area of media are factors which are equally important. Current Flow within the pond as well as water change rate per hour and population in the pond all are key factors.
Plan carefully and read all the thread on pond building in this forum - there is a wealth of good information here and just by reading all, would probably make you better than your contractor.... Best of luck.
(This post was edited by water on Aug 19, 2008, 9:50 AM)
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