Beautiful koi pond promote healthy fish and beautiful landscape. |
Koi is one of the most popular pond fish. To
make it even better, suitable ponds are needed to ensure not only the fish to
be healthy but also to make it more enjoyable to see. The fish healthy should
come first though the other aspects should come next. With proper planning, we
can get beautiful fish with beautiful views of the koi pond landscape. So let
see what are the possibilities that we can get through this wonderful hobby?
To build successful koi pond we need to
understand to whole process of the koi cares so it will works for long term
use. Koi lifespan can be considered as long for ornamental fish. It’s important
to make sure that your pond design can accommodate all the needs for koi.
Proper planning will make sure you safe lots of money and to avoid your lovely
koi from diseases and other problems. Perhaps your pond can also encourage your
koi to produce younglings. If you decide to have koi pond, you are also decided
to learn many things related to koi cares – and it will be lifelong learning!
Successful pond requires proper planning. |
Design
Technologies encourage more sophisticated
designs for koi pond to be possible. New technologies not always means
expensive and most of them can safe more money for long term use as they are
more effective. When thinking about design, take advantage of the new
technologies available so you can get the best designs that work as long as it
can.
Koi pond’s design focusing not only to take
make sure the fish can live healthily but also to blend in with its
surrounding, for most situations your garden or some part of your home – that
will be important. Proper planning will avoid future alterations and add more
values to your home.
Ready pond also might work in some cases.
Especially when you have future plan to build bigger pond. As the price of koi
can be too expensive, you might want to start with smaller koi where the price
is cheaper. So, there’s nothing wrong to start small, but to understand your
needs.
The bigger pond the better - with proper care. |
Size
Pond size is important for koi to be comfortably
live and growing up. The volume of water per fish is the important factor in
order to understand about the size of your pond. You also might need a deeper
pond in case to allow your fish to grow up to supersize!
It is important to understand the size of your
pond and the volume of water inside it in order to manage it properly. The
filtration system requires you to decide how much water to filter per hour same
as when you are applying chemicals to clean up or to cure diseases in your pond
in the future.
The suitable size for koi will start at 23 to
25 feet long by 12 to 13 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet deep. Well that’s for the
start. Anyway as we mention before, if you start with smaller koi, then you can
use temporary pond with smaller size.
Important aspect such as filtration system need to be built at the early stage. |
The Flow of Water
The consistent flow of water will give lots of
benefits to your fish, to your pond and also to you as it produce wonderful
sound of flowing water. Most of the time this feature come together with
filtration system. By designing this feature in the form of waterfall or water
fountain, will contribute to aeration for your pond – another important feature
for healthy fish.
Waterfall feature increase aeration. |
Filtration
Filtration system is crucial for koi pond as
koi is sensitive to water quality. Good filtration not only to keep your fish
healthy but it also will make your pond look more pleasant and need less
cleaning work. Its’ better to leave it to the expert to do it, however the
understanding how its work is also important. In some cases, the design can
also contribute to the suitable filtration system. That’s how the whole system
works – everything are link between one to another.
Well that’s too much on the design instead of
the types of the pond. So, in order for us to make the right decision we need
to know the important aspects of the design to understand our needs. By
understanding the key features on the design – you can get more information
about it from this link; we
can easily identifies the right types of pond that we requires.
Open pond is more beautiful but hard to take care. |
Open Pond:
Open pond is the most beautiful and usually
large in size. You can get the best result as long as the quality of water can
be maintain at its best. Anyway, this requires the best filtration system as
sunlight and heat can caused the water to turn green. Make sure there are
plenty of trees or shades to avoid the blooming of algae
Earth pond is more natural. |
Earth Pond:
Earth pond is more natural anyway not suitable
for ornamental koi as koi will increase the turbidity of water – they keep on
stirring the substrate from the floor of the pond. Anyway, you can have earth
pond for breeding purposes or just to keep koi as nursery pond. The turbidity
can be minimize if the bed of the pond is made of sands and stones.
Now you can see your fish swimming in the water. |
Hi-rise Pond:
Hi-rise pond can give extra benefits for the filtration
system and also to add glass panel to allow you to watch your fish like in
aquarium instead of just watching it from above. The bottom drain can easily be
built with this type of pond as you don’t have to dig too deep for it, not to mention
for future maintenance.
Stylish, but not for the fish! |
Small Steep Pond:
Small steep pond as built next to building and
with steeping stones crossing it is beautiful for ornament but not for the
fish. Koi requires bigger space and deeper water to swim freely to allow them
to grow. If you are planning to have healthy koi, then you might need a second
pond instead of this type of pond – well it still useful for the younglings
though.
Plastic Tank:
Maybe it’s not really a pond, but for temporary
purposes – when you building their permanent pond, or during the maintenance
and to transfer the fish, plastic tanks will be best alternative. Keep in mind
there always be emergency cases where you need to put your fish into temporary
place: so, plastic tank can be the best solution.
Proper planning will give you the best result. |
Well, that’s the summary of the koi ponds.
There are limitless of pond designs and it’s all depend on your own goals for
your lovely koi. This is not the type of fish that you can take for granted for
their cares, especially when your fish getting bigger in size. Keeping koi
requires lots of patience, knowledge and proper planning – but you might end up
with the next most expensive fish!