Koi with other fish?

[MrTony1920]

What would be good fish to keep with Koi? What about Fancy Goldfish, Bala sharks, crayfish or Turtles?

 

[Mmathis]

More information about your pond would be helpful.

 

[MrTony1920]

More information about your pond would be helpful.

I dont have a pond yet. Im just doing my home work early.

 

[Jhn]

Koi pretty much get along with everything. Its more like will the turtles get along with your koi. The answer is it depends on the size of your pond, species of turtle, If you are going to try to keep a turtle you will need to put up some type of fence/barrier around the pond to contain them, otherwise they will leave.

 

[MrTony1920]

Koi pretty much get along with everything. Its more like will the turtles get along with your koi. The answer is it depends on the size of your pond, species of turtle, If you are going to try to keep a turtle you will need to put up some type of fence/barrier around the pond to contain them, otherwise they will leave.

Im think about 300 gallon above ground to get stared. So I more thinking about Crayfish over turtles? And some Rose red fish(the feeders). Or Im think about native fish. Or mixing the 2 ideals if it can work.

 

[Jhn]

300 gallon pond is too small for koi as they grow quickly, get 3’ long, large bodied and will overwhelm the filter system quickly. Better off sticking with goldfish or make a native pond, those are always interesting(at least to me).

 

[addy1]

Im think about 300 gallon above ground to get stared.

Welcome to our forum!

One koi needs 1000 gallons, the second koi needs another 500 gallons. I would stick with fantails in that pond. I have fantails in my 300 gallon hot tub pond, shubunkins in my around 9000-10000 gallon pond.

 

[Mmathis]

Instead of koi, you may want to begin with goldfish. For koi, you need at least 1000 gallons — for the first koi — then approximately an additional 250-300 gallons per additional koi. Maybe for now, focus on learning about the hobby.

 

[MrTony1920]

Welcome to our forum!

One koi needs 1000 gallons, the second koi needs another 500 gallons. I would stick with fantails in that pond. I have fantails in my 300 gallon hot tub pond, shubunkins in my around 9000-10000 gallon pond.

Instead of koi, you may want to begin with goldfish. For koi, you need at least 1000 gallons — for the first koi — then approximately an additional 250-300 gallons per additional koi. Maybe for now, focus on learning about the hobby.

Thank You for your help. It will be 2021 before I get a pond up and running. Im just leering about pond for now.

 

[Mmathis]

@MrTony1920 what part of the country are you in?

 

[MrTony1920]

Montana...It get very cold. So I dont know how well a pond would do hear.

 

[GBBUDD]

Im just leering about pond for now.

Run while you can once bit your doomed to make it bigger then to make it yet bigger again down the road

 

[brokensword]

can everyone (especially @GBBUDD ) say LPS???

 

[MrTony1920]

Thank You for all your help

 

[GBBUDD]

Cant say it no frikin way if theres a bigger and a biggest Um ouch lps coming my way i quit now . That was a lot of work