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Isn't it great that we can enjoy our passion for fish keeping in spite of Covid restrictions! I am relatively new to fish keeping and am enjoying upskilling my knowledge base by looking at this forum.
Although I'm a second generation fish keeper, my first pond came about when we created an Asian Garden and dug a 30,000 litre (7925 gallons) pond, installed a filter with uv, skimmer, lots of filtration plants and a large "filtration island". Then started to stock it with fish. We so enjoyed the "food for our soul" that watching the fish provided, that I decided to start breeding fish as a future retirement income.
We started creating additional ponds to become fish farmers! We cut 4 x IBC tanks in half to create 8 x 500 litre (136 gallon) tanks and created a reticulating filtration system for them (filter with uv) to manage the water quality.
Having recognised some limitations which our previous lack of knowledge building our first pond had caused for breeding purposes, we created another large outdoor pond 16,000 litre (4227 gallons). This has been planted and cycling for about four weeks and we plan to introduce the shubunkin fish shortly.
Although I'm a second generation fish keeper, my first pond came about when we created an Asian Garden and dug a 30,000 litre (7925 gallons) pond, installed a filter with uv, skimmer, lots of filtration plants and a large "filtration island". Then started to stock it with fish. We so enjoyed the "food for our soul" that watching the fish provided, that I decided to start breeding fish as a future retirement income.
We started creating additional ponds to become fish farmers! We cut 4 x IBC tanks in half to create 8 x 500 litre (136 gallon) tanks and created a reticulating filtration system for them (filter with uv) to manage the water quality.
Having recognised some limitations which our previous lack of knowledge building our first pond had caused for breeding purposes, we created another large outdoor pond 16,000 litre (4227 gallons). This has been planted and cycling for about four weeks and we plan to introduce the shubunkin fish shortly.
