| Checkout my new pond
As promised, here are some pics of my potential (grow-out/discard) pond for 5 years. I have absolutely no idea if this pond is habitable. I'm sure the water is far from ideal, but I will test the water anyway. Although pond appears to have pumps, fountains and overflows...right now it looks like a big scary nightmare. There are too many things I cannot control with a pond this size. I'm still working on getting more approvals for the use of this pond on base, but I'm thinking, it would just be more of a humane dumping ground for the koi that I circulate through my small home pond. The only drawback I see thus far is that every October, the base puts on a trout derby at this pond. They actually take local farmed trout and through them in the pond so that theycan have a fishing tournament. I can just see people fishing for the koi. Not good.
Anyway, let me know if you think this thing is salvageable. The pond is actually deep in the middle 5-6 and only 2 feet at the perimeters, still tons of room. Once I let fish go in the pond, it will be almost impossible to be able to track or watch the koi in such a pond. True guess work. How do you train koi to feed at a designated place in the pond? Even if they recognize koi food in the water, how will they know where to go to eat?
Hmmmm. If I train the koi in the small pond to react to a bell, clanging or some sound, do you think they will put one plus one when they get released in the huge pond. I would be willing to feed them daily, except probably not during the winter...Well, I'll have to see how this winter goes before I can start anything with this pond anyway...lots and lots of thinking to do...
Any words of wisdom will be much appreciated. I'll go take pictures of another really nice and manicured base pond I had my eye on. the size (sf) is adequate but I think much too shallow, 2 ft deep and it actually tapers to 4 inches at both ends. The water is crystal clear, but I'm sure with the addition of koi, it will not be the case. And in winter, the pond must freeze over or the water may get too extreme.
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