Anyone please share some good design on good land scaping with fish pond.
Please do share where can get the contractor to do it.

This post has been edited by justheone_2: Feb 17 2012, 11:25 AM

Make the pond in a '8' shape, it bring wellness.

where is your location bro?

Hehehehe...this is my fish/koi pond

Cheras.

how difficult is it to maintain a fish/koi pond?

I was told that it is high maintenance..

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Added on February 17, 2012, 10:27 pmMaintenance is easy when it is properly built. See I got crystal clear water

This post has been edited by stevie8: Feb 17 2012, 10:27 PM

wow, that is pretty cool and nice, any stray cat go aim ur koi ?

They come for water. To drink. Birds also but one big owl took some of my fish once upon a time and now no more after I spoted it on roof top and chase it away. That could have frieghten it away.

nice....how much u spend to build this?

Believe it or not I built it on my own! RM2K and later spent another RM1K for water proof and other filter stuff and pump.

For a good koi pond you should have one far end for water return and the other far end with bottom drains going into the filter and pump chamber. This will give you a straight flow like a river that flow one direction.

If you use the old way where the bottom drains (BDs) are located at the middles of the bottom pond you would have a circular flow that confused the fish. The old way also need you to have one third volume of chamber vs the pond volume where the filter chamber took too much space.

Newer method is to have a lot of aeration and some external filtration system that you need not have to have large filter area for filter chamber.

If you hire someone to built it could cost RM20 to RM40K depends on size and stones that you need to decorate the pond. I just did little decoration. Sometimes simple look nice depend on individuals.

Wow, must be some hard work. How did you dispose the soil? I think that size need few round of 3 ton lori.

No lori. I used my car. Putting the soil on bags, load into my car drove for some distance and throw and bring back the bags.

Wow, that will take some trips.

Some pix

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Added on February 18, 2012, 12:04 amToo many trips but it was some 500meters away only. It was soil filling low land, not rubbish ma.

This post has been edited by stevie8: Feb 18 2012, 12:04 AM

U need permit from Majlis Perbandaran for this?

No need permit. I did not touch the foundation of the house.

I was thinking of using the water tank and tanam it in the hole... can get a square kolam... then put a solar fountain in it... emmmm... would work?

As for a gold fish pond yes. Koi pond, no. Too small for koi as they are too big and big eater. The poo of koi will poison all the koi and they will die. Koi pond is all about water management. Clear and good water, healthy fish. It is how the water is being purified.