2500 gallon freshwater koi pond, 17 years!

[SuburbanKoi]

Hello! My father-in-law and my wife & I built a 12'x9'x4' deep pond in 2006. He put all the koi that he had been raising for years in it. Since then, we've had a few spawnings, and we tried to save and grow as many of those new koi as we could.

We had a horrible die-off about 7 years ago, I think we lost 2 dozen over the course of a week! I've always been careful about keeping the filter clean, watching the water temp for feeding, etc. No trouble since then.

We still have about 2 dozen koi, most of them 24" long or bigger. They are so relaxing to watch, sometimes I sit on the edge of the pond and watch them do their thing.

 

[Nano_Man]

welcome to r2r

 

[dstockwell]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Welcome to the Reef

Thank you!

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R. Those fish are beautiful.

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Welcome to R2R. Those fish are beautiful.

Thank you!!

 

[JC1977]

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Thank you! I'm happy to be here.

 

[marcinpolak]

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Thanks funny - thank you!

 

[Stephen8169301]

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Thank you

 

[albano]

I was talking with a guy yesterday about stocking my 1 acre pond with some koi… he mentioned to me that 2nd or 3rd generations in bigger ponds, seem to lose alot of their color and are grayish. Have you heard that?

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !!!

 

[jsker]

 

[danenelsen]

 

[SuburbanKoi]

I was talking with a guy yesterday about stocking my 1 acre pond with some koi… he mentioned to me that 2nd or 3rd generations in bigger ponds, seem to lose alot of their color and are grayish. Have you heard that?

Not at all. Our 2nd generation koi are just as vibrant as our 1st. And, I think some of the koi I think of as "1st generation" were really my father-in-law's 2nd generation.

 

[albano]

Good to hear… I’m going to add some as the weather warms up.
Thinking to modify our rowboat into a ‘glass (acrylic) bottom boat’
for the grandkids viewing pleasure.

 

[SuburbanKoi]

Good to hear… I’m going to add some as the weather warms up.
Thinking to modify our rowboat into a ‘glass (acrylic) bottom boat’
for the grandkids viewing pleasure.

That sounds wonderful!

 

[Buckster]

Hello and Welcome to R2R!