Our Koi Ponds
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Some of you will remember the Koi Pond we had in Washington. Just because we moved to a desert doesn't mean we can't have Koi again. This pond is an ongoing project. We started it the summer of 2004 and have been changing, fixing, and making it better ever since.
We have two ponds, the big water garden, the one with the wooden bridge. The emphasis with pond is a natural setting with lots of Lilys and plants. Linda's long fins are in this pond. It is a liner pond, 4 feet deep and 12,500 gals. Filtration is one 4" bottom drain going to a 500 gal. vortex. Then to two 100 gal bio filters, a sure pro 3500 gph pump going to the center water fall. There is also a skimmer with two 57 watt UVs, a sure pro 5500 gph pump going to the big water fall at the head of the creek.
The newest pond is the one inside the patio. It is concrete with epoxy construction, 6 1/2 feet deep, 6,700 gals. This pond is where we keep our show fish. It is not completed yet, still have to finish the flagstone. And some day, build a passive solar sun room over it. It has two 4" bottom drains feeding a 500 gal vortex with prefilter, from there water gravity flows through four 100 gal fluid bed filters, then a sure pro 5500 gph pump, to my home made low pressure bead filter. The flow here splits into 3 paths, two of which go through 40 watt UVs and to tow TPRs. The third goes through a propane heater and to the 3rd TPR. The skimmer circuit feeds a sure pro 5500 gph pump and then feed a 4 tray Bakki Shower with 16 cubic feet of media. This water is returned to the pond waterfall.
Pictures of Our Ponds
Some of our Fish
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Our Reserve Grand Champion Asagi, "Showgirl" |
Pond Visitors
One of the neat things about the pond is all the wild life it attracts. At times we have seen besides dozens of assorted song birds, dozens of quail, all lined up along the edge drinking. In the summer the rock chucks come over from the neighbors to drink, and the deer. They used to drink from the pond but now that Linda is feeding them I also put out a water trough for them. It's nice seeing them lined up around the pond but I wouldn't want one falling in, so I keep fresh drinking water for them away from the pond. Here's a couple of shots of our deer.
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