well we got all the babies out

[sawlog]

my family and I spent Saturday pumping out our koi pond to get all of last years babies out. It took forever getting all of them out. I would guess a very conservative guess would be 2000 baby koi 2-4in long. glad that's done for the year. Pond is still filling back up. Takes awhile to refill 20,000 gallons.

 

[Meyer Jordan]

What did you do with the 2000 babies?

 

[sawlog]

put them up for sale, 2 bucks each. I guess we will see how many we sale. We usually sell a few hundred thru the summer, but never had this many babies.

 

[Tula]

Wow, that is a big undertaking and a lot of babies!

 

[Meyer Jordan]

What are you keeping them in? That is quite a bit of fish mass. That's equivalent to 18 14" Koi!

 

[sawlog]

I have a filter system for part of our pond that has two 110gallon tanks and one 140 gallon tank buried in the landscaping. as of now I have the water in there circulating from the last tank to the first. when the pond gets full again then I will let the pond water in one end and pump the water out of the last tank back to the pond. That way they always have fresh water going past them

 

[Meyer Jordan]

I have a filter system for part of our pond that has two 110gallon tanks and one 140 gallon tank buried in the landscaping. as of now I have the water in there circulating from the last tank to the first. when the pond gets full again then I will let the pond water in one end and pump the water out of the last tank back to the pond. That way they always have fresh water going past them

I am confused. If the two 110 gallon tanks and the 140 gallon tank comprise your filter system, where are you keeping the fish? Certainly not in the filter. Even if you were 360 gallons is not enough for this amount of fish mass.