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Old 02-15-2005   #3 (permalink)
dick benbow
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Do me a favor bedskoi and get one more koi and quit. That's about 500 gallons per koi. You should be able to get them up to close to 24 inches before they start to football in which case you will need to find homes for one or two.

In winter I run 500 gallons per koi inside and outside a thousand per each.

you'll have less problems etc.

if you can't restrain from overstocking your pond, pls do the koi a favor and establish a constrant trickle of new water in 24/7. Means it needs to be de-clorinaded and have an overflow pipe to waste or a french drain or a bog garden.
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