they grow up so fast...

[koiguy1969]

HARO....yep it's a 19" pieco.

 

[j.w]

Always enjoy looking at your beautiful fish koiguy and they look so healthy. You take good care of them and it shows

 

[sissy]

A pickle jar may be good but I saw one with a plastic mayo .jar also .I guess really anything is good to use as long as it is sealed good /Your fish have really gotten big fast think you need to stop feeding them spinach .

 

[fishin4cars]

Always enjoy watching, I saw the one I've liked all year still looks good but he is getting more and more splotching pattern. Wow, that water stays so clear! Everyone looks happy to be inside!

 

[Oldhead]

They are looking good. If my son ever moves out I may do a basement pond.

 

[CountryEscape]

Love the pictures and videos, KoiGuy! My favorite big one is the white one with little black and red spots. But, I'm still in love with the tri-colored ones (Sanke or Showa?) and you have some really nice little ones.
I had a pleco I put in my pond in June, thinking that it could stay. It went in at about 7" long, and came out at 12" or little more! That was just in 4 months, too. I've got a baby albino in my inside aquarium hoping he will grow some before next summer. He's going into the pond then so I can see him.
Do you have any problems catching all your fish? I'd guess some get left in the pond that get missed, right? Looks like you have just a few babies, which is what I want eventually, just a few. Out of my 10 or so goldies, I have about 10 babies.
Thanks for sharing your inside pond. You make all of us with our ponds on "hibernation" mode jealous we could watch our babies all winter, too! I have a basement, lots of space ... maybe someday I'll add a basement pond, too. That's a lot of hauling fish and water to the basement. I don't remember how you do the water exchange. Do you bring water from the outside pond with the fish?

 

[koiguy1969]

C.ESCAPE..... Theres about 50 juvenile / fingerlings @ 2&1/2" - 4&1/2"..... 5 adults @18" - 21" .....1 young adult @ 7" ....1 pieco @ 18". they become more and more easy to catch as i pump the water out of one pond to the other.... i use a flowtec pump for the water transfer. i may do a thread on my basement pond, filter, and maintainence ... its not much more work than outdoor ponds. maybe even less, without the plant grooming etc...

 

[CountryEscape]

Oh, so you pump one pond of water into the basement pond, catching fish as you go, so then there is no water and therefore no fish left in the outside pond, right? Or, do you leave the outside pond full, too, just use as much as you need for the smaller (I assume) basement pond?

 

[koiguy1969]

yes...the outside pond is 1200 gals, the basement is 800. when the basement pond is full i just move the hose from the basement to the yard and keep pumping. i catch the big guys first then the little ones when the water level is way down. i keep a bin / tote of pond water at ponds edge to put the fish in when caught. carry them down in that, or a black pillow case...same water= same temp and chemistry....easy on the fish. i wouldnt want to have catch all the fish in a full pond. even one of mines size.

 

[CountryEscape]

Is your 1200 gal pond a liner, or preformed? I guess I assumed it was a liner, and how do you keep the liner in place with no water in it all winter?

 

[koiguy1969]

oh...i'm sorry..i wasnt saying the pond sat empty over winter...absolutely not!! i refill the pond . wouldnt want cave ins, and the pond plants need to be in water. and i can imagine what a 1200 gal preformed would cost....lots!!!

 

[koiguy1969]

a slide show for your enjoyment......
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yF/r/WE6KXRY0dum.swf?v=285783854793233&ev=0

 

[CountryEscape]

Great pics, KoiGuy! You have all sizes there, all the way down to looks like 1" long! Very pretty fish, obviously well taken care of.

 

[sissy]

remember in the 70's when they built some of the california contemporaries they would put small ponds in the entryways .I guess the homeowners did not like the upkeep .I remember them building some in NJ like that .I guess it really has nothing to do with this post ,but a pond inside may be coming back into fashion ,

 

[HARO]

remember in the 70's when they built some of the california contemporaries they would put small ponds in the entryways .I guess the homeowners did not like the upkeep .I remember them building some in NJ like that .I guess it really has nothing to do with this post ,but a pond inside may be coming back into fashion ,

My wife will be thrilled to hear that our basement is now 'in fashion'!!! John