Water Gardening: newbie confused about fish, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
6 years ago when we first put in our pond, we started out with goldfish in addition to koi. We liked the goldfish, but found them to be far too prolific for us. They were mating at least once a month and we were very quickly inundated in a 5000 gallon pond. So we got rid of all of our goldfish.

Last year we went with just koi and although the koi do pose a bit of a problem with the breeding, they are not quite as prolific as the goldfish. Currently we are giving the koi babies to a friend of ours that owns a nursery. Next year we should really have a better idea as to the offspring situation as there will be far more koi that will be of breeding age than there were this past year.