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Quote: Originally Posted by mikegarcia Steve I thank you for the suggestion and I intend to post progress of my pond construction on this website. You are right about ADI. I still have literature which is given to homeowners which comes with the pond-in-a-box kit. The ADI magazine shows giant Koi being hand fed watermelon in an ADI pond. The Koi look very happy. I know what you think about ADI, but did you know that ADI is NOT a sponsor of the IPPCA? ADI has one way of building ponds. The IPPCA promotes building all kinds of ponds, including traditional Koi ponds. I would imagine if you had to choose between the IPPCA and ADI, you would have to go with the association which is there to serve and promote trditional Koi Ponds.

Yes Mike, I know that there is no formal link between the two. But actually, if I had to choose nbetween the 2 for a Koi pond, I would choose niether (nor any contractor associated with either) for two reasons, the first ios my opinion on both's lack of integrity and ethics and the second being that niether has the knowledge base to construct such.

As for your statement:

Quote: I intend to post progress of my pond construction on this website

It seems you are making a very HUGE mistake already. You have stated that you have wanted help from the knowledgeable on this project but based upon my previous suggestion to post you plans and specification, it would appear that you only intend to post actual construction progress. No plan/design review first? Oh well.

Steve