Pond & Koi Questions...

[JosephandGabby]

Greetings everyone;

I’m just curious. How big (#gallons) are your ponds and how many koi are you stocking in your ponds right now?

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Joseph
http://www.josephandgabby.com/pond

[dick benbow]

i HAVE 2 PONDS HERE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST....OUTSIDE IS 4,000 AND INSIDE IS 2,000. GALS...i TRY AND KEEP A THOUSAND GALLONS PER KOI IN SUMMER AND HALF THAT FOR WINTER WHEN THEY ARE PRETTY INACTIVE.


At present I have 3 asagi's and an ake mae kigoi. in the pipeline is another
asagi this spring and the following year a kohaku,sanke and shusui out of the grow ponds at qualkity koi.

qUESS IF I WANT TO KEEP MY 1000 GALS PER KOI I BETTER START BUILDING ANOTHER BIGGER POND!
(SOON AS THE ICE THAWS IN THE SPRING!)

[Ryan S.]

16 in 3200gallons. Most are young

[junglegeorge12]

15 koi 12-30" in a 5 gallon bucket. are they supposed to be swimming upside down or is something wrong? Should I use a filter?

[dick benbow]

gEORGE, QUICK SLIP IN SOME RON RICO 200% PROOF, IT'LL HELP EM'...IT HELPS EVERYTHING! USE IT IN PLACE OF AMQUEL, IT COMES PRE FILTERED BUT YOU CAN ADD DIET COKE....

[MikeM]

Well, Jungle, I knew there was a lot to learn from your experience. But, how did the 30" one fit in the bucket????

Joseph: On a serious note, there is an insightful discussion of why there cannot be any "standard" stocking rate for a koi pond in Peter Waddington's Koi2Kichi. The proper rate for a particular koikeeper depends on what they have and what they want to accomplish ...size of pond, filtration, size of koi, desire to show or desire for movement in the garden? Clearly wrong to try to keep a 30" koi in 500 gallons, but for a half dozen 4" tosai being grown for 4 months to select the best to go in a main pond?... 500 gallons might do fine in the hands of an experienced koikeeper, and be a disaster in the hands of a novice.

I kept 16 koi when I had a 2500 gallon pond. I kept between 16 and 18 koi when I had 4500+ gallons. I now have 14 koi in 12,500 gallons...need to find homes for 5 to make room for a couple I'd like to have.

[Brutuscz]

My pond is 7,000 gal with about 25-30 koi. I am planning on selling off about 5 of them next season. I like to one-up my pond all season. Find a better sanke than the one I have...then sell the old one. That way, my collection keeps improving. The exception are the one's I am attached too.

[Tom C]

We are at 9,000 gallons with 18 koi in the pond. About 7 of them will be going in the spring. They were just little guy's I was play with over this last season.

[isma_3971]

Hello everyOne,

18ton of water with only 9 koi inside. Mostly nisai and the largest is my kohaku around 65cm.

[Mike T]

6, 24+" koi in 900 gallons most grew from 15" in 2003...

11, in 1500 gallon pond, different sizes from 15" - 20" most are tosai and nisai...Hope all will reach between 24-27" based on a formula from Mr. Chris Neaves of South Africa..

I agree with him that a 27" koi is a very nice koi... Jumbos would be too big for our ponds...

Aloha! Mike