Koi Pond

Originally Posted by aroflim

If your favorite koi happen to be the timid one and always loses out to other koi for food, their growth will be affected. Put them with other gentle or weaker fish so they will not be intimidated and grow big. The Jap told us to group koi according to their feeding behavior.

Fully agree. I have a net hanging in the corner of my pond for small koi & i used it to successfully rehabilitate 2 big koi that were not feeding well. After 2 months of feeding with fish much smaller then them, they gain back confidence to chiong with the rest.

Originally Posted by aroflim

So I just ask Ah Seng for Terence's Koi.

Yes pls. As much as i welcome visitors to view my koi, I would very much prefer Ah Seng to be around for that. Hope you understand.

Originally Posted by winkelhock

Tks for the advice,however if i remove the alpha koi,the timid ones will not be so willing to the pond side to eat also,so i think i should starve them for a while first?

Dun need to starve lah, this is not aro...

I saw this many years ago at a Koi shop. During feeding time, when food was thrown into the fibreglass tank, all fish would fight for the pellet (you know how hungry koi in a shop are) except one strange koi. It won't eat. It waited for the boss's wife to hand feed him (or her?). Funny thing was, that koi won't come when the boss did the same thing. We were joking that the koi would probably starve to death if it was sold.

[winkelhock]

[QUOTE=terence28;6405338]Fully agree. I have a net hanging in the corner of my pond for small koi & i used it to successfully rehabilitate 2 big koi that were not feeding well. After 2 months of feeding with fish much smaller then them, they gain back confidence to chiong with the rest.



Pls elaborate bro..

Originally Posted by terence28

Yes pls. As much as i welcome visitors to view my koi, I would very much prefer Ah Seng to be around for that. Hope you understand.

Sure. I understand.

[cucumber]

How deep the pond need to be? I see all the farm pond super deep one. I see the ponds in Max Koi like jump inside need to take lift to come out.

[Leong68]

Originally Posted by cucumber

How deep the pond need to be? I see all the farm pond super deep one. I see the ponds in Max Koi like jump inside need to take lift to come out.

that im not sure, sometimes pond can be 6 - 10 feet deep but for me and my friends who's stay in landed build a pond for kois is 4 feet only.

[winkelhock]

Originally Posted by cucumber

How deep the pond need to be? I see all the farm pond super deep one. I see the ponds in Max Koi like jump inside need to take lift to come out.

Max's 6M pond use for Olmpic diving one la,imagine fully filled,he can teach scuba diving also.

Originally Posted by winkelhock

Pls elaborate bro..

ok, i got two kohahu - 58cm & 64cm who are not eating much cos they shy when feeding with the rest of the big fish. So i put them with the small fish all 20-30cm, much smaller in size. So this 2 kohaku in the net is the biggest liao, so body pushing also will win mah.... and in a net the food wont float away, so i just throw alot lah.

In the process the small ones also over eat lah, but what the heck, the big fish are more important... after 2 months both kohaku eat untill fat fat & grew 2cm somemore. Now return to main pond they no scared liao... if u need further elaboration must do so on site liao...

Originally Posted by aroflim

Sure. I understand.

Thanks bro!

Originally Posted by cucumber

How deep the pond need to be? I see all the farm pond super deep one. I see the ponds in Max Koi like jump inside need to take lift to come out.

Originally Posted by Leong68

that im not sure, sometimes pond can be 6 - 10 feet deep but for me and my friends who's stay in landed build a pond for kois is 4 feet only.

This topic got differring views. Some pple say 3 ft gao liao, some say must take lift, my personal view in in the middle, abt 5-6 ft shld be ok.

[Aroboy II]

Very nice pond setup. How much does this cost?

[Leong68]

Originally Posted by terence28

ok, i got two kohahu - 58cm & 64cm who are not eating much cos they shy when feeding with the rest of the big fish. So i put them with the small fish all 20-30cm, much smaller in size. So this 2 kohaku in the net is the biggest liao, so body pushing also will win mah.... and in a net the food wont float away, so i just throw alot lah.

In the process the small ones also over eat lah, but what the heck, the big fish are more important... after 2 months both kohaku eat untill fat fat & grew 2cm somemore. Now return to main pond they no scared liao... if u need further elaboration must do so on site liao...

Thanks bro!

This topic got differring views. Some pple say 3 ft gao liao, some say must take lift, my personal view in in the middle, abt 5-6 ft shld be ok.

yup it depent. agreed. i saw one pond in jln kayu, it like half of swimming pool about 6ft deep.

Originally Posted by Aroboy II

Very nice pond setup. How much does this cost?

3xxxx, bro. plug and play