Water Gardening: How many ponders are out there ?? List your names - Update!, 1 by randbponder

randbponder wrote:
We have a few too many Koi in our 3000gal pond. But we like to sit and watch them when we have time to relax on the patio. So I put up with a little extra work on keeping up with the fish on cleaning filters a little more offten. To start with, 8 or 9 years ago we decided to install a pond. We bought a preformed kit. Would have been about 100gal. Before the weather got decient enough to dig. another friend said he had wished he'd dug his deeper, so he could winter his fish in the pond. Well looking at the pond kit, about 18" if it were brim full. I couldn't see trying to move fish in and out every spring and fall.
So I bit the bullet and used the skid loader and had fun diging. with a machine instead of by hand. We now have about 50 koi that are pets. and a bunch of little ones that still dart for cover when they see something move by the pond. We have 3 now that are 24" and a bunch that are 8" - 18" Oh and the little preformed thing That is now part of the filter system. Sometimes I wish I had stayed with just that, but then I would have found out that koi do grow up, to be too big for their space." Bellieg" I do like the way you used the lettuce on the falls. Did doing that seem to help in keeping the pond cleaner?

Sorry I didn't take any new pics this year, so you may have already seen this one.