expansion

[PGBRAT]

I plan on expanding my pond next year. any suggestions or tips would be great!!!

 

[addy1]

Would love to help, but give us an idea of how you are expanding it............what changes you are making.............what size...............how digging old one out? etc etc

 

[PGBRAT]

I plan on pulling up the old liner and making the area deeper and maybe wider, I will take some pictures and post them. I also plan on putting decking around the new pond

 

[sissy]

You may have to address shade if you are having a deck all around the pond .What kind of fish and how your going to hide the filter and still have access to the filter and plumbing and all the electrical also

 

[PGBRAT]

All my filters are submersible and I have 4 koi and 5 goldfish

 

[sissy]

I guess you will have to go bigger and you may need an outside of the pond filter ,koi produce a lot of waste .My koi started out small 7 years later and now they are over 2 feet long and I have 2 large filters and 2 waterfalls .Koi need a lot of oxygen so I also have a 5.8 psi air pump .My pond is over 3 feet deep and one waterfall has a 2 foot section for baby fish to hide .I did not know how big koi got myself and now I know .Thats why all the extra filtering I do .

 

[sissy]

these are pics of how much I have to filter .the green box in the pond is a pump with laundry bags of lava rock on top of it helping to filter before it goes to the big filter and I have 3 2 inch air stones in the pond and a bubble wand