Just drive along Jalan Sg Buloh from Kg Melayu Subang all the way to Kota Damansara. There are some shops there that sells these water feature quite cheap.

Water features or koi/fish pond?

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Need some feedback n ideas pics n cost if any frens done any...

I have a courtyard at my living room size bout 9ftx7.5ft... at this moment dun have any design idea on having water feature + koi pond...

Thinking of modern concept, any frens has done any? Cost indication will be helpfull...

I dont think its good to have koi pond at home . Mainly because it increases the humidity which increase the chances of fungal growth .
Even in modern fengshui design strongly discourages you from having koi pond within the house .
then the later is the maintenance and up keep is considerably high . My old house used to have fountain / pool to put turtles and some fishes ... but once the pump breaks down the whole thing becomes a huge pain in the ass . 

Maybe the first 2 - 3 months you would be happy cleaning it but later sure gonna be damn lazy to maintain it.

My recommendations

Have you considered greeneries like bamboo trees etc that helps to absorb toxic , trees that doesnt grow too big ... or too much leaves .

You also can consider digging the cement area and replace it with soil and cover it with carpet grass and have small wooden table / chairs . ( you can find these accessories along sg buloh to shah alam old road )

Watever you do ... make sure ur focus is on the lightings . small yellow dimmed background lighting .. even if you put trees etc, a good lighting will amplify the awesomeness.

mostly water feature. I think koi fish got also one big shop.

I dont think its good to have koi pond at home . Mainly because it increases the humidity which increase the chances of fungal growth .
Even in modern fengshui design strongly discourages you from having koi pond within the house .
then the later is the maintenance and up keep is considerably high . My old house used to have fountain / pool to put turtles and some fishes ... but once the pump breaks down the whole thing becomes a huge pain in the ass . 

Maybe the first 2 - 3 months you would be happy cleaning it but later sure gonna be damn lazy to maintain it.

My recommendations

Have you considered greeneries like bamboo trees etc that helps to absorb toxic , trees that doesnt grow too big ... or too much leaves .

You also can consider digging the cement area and replace it with soil and cover it with carpet grass and have small wooden table / chairs . ( you can find these accessories along sg buloh to shah alam old road )

I dont think its good to have koi pond at home . Mainly because it increases the humidity which increase the chances of fungal growth .
Even in modern fengshui design strongly discourages you from having koi pond within the house .
then the later is the maintenance and up keep is considerably high . My old house used to have fountain / pool to put turtles and some fishes ... but once the pump breaks down the whole thing becomes a huge pain in the ass . 

Maybe the first 2 - 3 months you would be happy cleaning it but later sure gonna be damn lazy to maintain it.

My recommendations

Have you considered greeneries like bamboo trees etc that helps to absorb toxic , trees that doesnt grow too big ... or too much leaves .

You also can consider digging the cement area and replace it with soil and cover it with carpet grass and have small wooden table / chairs . ( you can find these accessories along sg buloh to shah alam old road )

I have a koi pond in my living area. Its a 10' x 10' x 4' deep and a 3' x 11' x 5' deep filter.
Humidity is not as issue at all as per say by some. Cant say much bout fengsui.
Let me know what I can help.

***edit***
My pond is in service for 4 years now.

Here u go ...
Cant remember the cost liow ... take extra effort for the filter eg ... mechanical and bio chamber

I have a koi pond in my living area. Its a 10' x 10' x 4' deep and a 3' x 11' x 5' deep filter.
Humidity is not as issue at all as per say by some. Cant say much bout fengsui.
Let me know what I can help.

***edit***
My pond is in service for 4 years now.

Thats nice...

Can recommend ur contractor?

How frequent you clean your pond?
Btw, it is a nice pond.

Whats your dog doing in that pond?

Never clean the pond before. Once a month flush the settlement chamber and 6 months once clean the whole filter chamber.
Filter chamber consist of 5 chamber (settlement, brush, brush, bio, pump)

6 months clean once???   
How you achieve that, everyone that i ask around they say must clean once a month, and it cost about RM 200 to clean once.
Mind to share how you flush the settlement chamber?

Here u go ...
Cant remember the cost liow ... take extra effort for the filter eg ... mechanical and bio chamber

I have a 2" drain pipe in each of my chamber link to the drain, this is in place because I can chose which chamber to drain without draining all the chamber.

I just pull the 2" pvc in the settlement chamber and viola ... all the gunk is gone.

nice.. can share more picture.. this is dry pond is it? mean water below the glass panel? great way to display without having nightmare of water splashes..

That is easy maintenance.
Is your pond expose to sunlight?

The water level is about 12" below the glass panel. The pond is covered by 3 feet of glass and another 3 feet by concrete slab. It stretch deep into the living hall. More pict ah ... errr what you wanna see.

well, i cant imagine the pond.. so, basically what seen in the pic is only a part of the pond which is half your living hall (unseen part of pond), and half is glass with open surface?

Errr ... once a month flushing of the settlement chamber will take me 15 minutes to flush and another 30 minutes to fill it back up = yeah, relatively easy.

6 month once full filter cleaning is different, it takes me aprox 1 hour to take out all the media eg. brush, bio beads to clean with high pressure jet and put it back and another 1 hour plus waiting time to fill the water back to my designated level. Quite a workout for the weekend for some. 

***edit***
My pond is expose to very limited sunlight (UV). My main door is about 5 feet away to the pond and that's the only way sunlight can penetrate to the pond and my house is facing south. There are some algae build up on the pond wall but just a light green hue, nothing serious as to algae bloom and no string algae.

Wan! Half year service also DIY ah? 

There some good doing it yourself, you gets to know if there is something is wrong with your pond hence the trouble if was not spotted earlier.
Some parasite might colonize your filter chamber and this could lead to an outbreak which in turns take more of your time to treat or worst ... whole pond submarine turn up side down.

1 hours not that bad la ...

Can u show us your filter setup pictures?

Where is your filter located?

Where is your filter located?

wow~ impressive.
Thought of doing a pond too, but when it comes to filtering.
It takes alot of money to buy quality medias.
The pump itself already squeezing money out of my purse 24/7.
So i'm still pending my dream.

You are right and wrong. Generally there are two media for the filtering system, mechanical and biological.
For mechanical, those brush will last a very long time so one off purchase, if I remember correctly I bought mine at Rm12 per pcs and approx 40 of it in my brush chamber.

For biological media, I use aquaclay if i spelled it correctly but you can opt for cheaper option eg crystal bio, siporax, ceramic ring and the like. All works the same. Biological media will last for a very long time as well with periodic cleaning. (back breaking works)

Pump nowadays consume much less juice le ... this world where got free lunch la ...

If only i have your skill and DIY, can save money as hiring the company to build pond and supply filter cost a bomb.

You are right and wrong. Generally there are two media for the filtering system, mechanical and biological.
For mechanical, those brush will last a very long time so one off purchase, if I remember correctly I bought mine at Rm12 per pcs and approx 40 of it in my brush chamber.

For biological media, I use aquaclay if i spelled it correctly but you can opt for cheaper option eg crystal bio, siporax, ceramic ring and the like. All works the same. Biological media will last for a very long time as well with periodic cleaning. (back breaking works)

Pump nowadays consume much less juice le ... this world where got free lunch la ...

which pump would you recommend?

It depends on what is your application is for.

- water featurel, what is the size of the feature wall and the size of the water retention area.
- koi pond, what is the size of the pond or the tonnage.

The main difference of the two is that for water feature, you dont really need a powerful pump unless its a huge water feature facade.
As for koi pond, you have to consider the turn over of the pond water, minimum for koi pond is one cycle per hour and the more cycle turn over the better. You have to look at the design of your koi pond as to where to locate you return pipe so that the flow is evenly distributed.

I am in the midst of renovating my house and wanting to build a fish pond out in my garden area. Want to have water feature to flow down from the wall into the pond. Not sure what is consider a good design and what media / material / equipment needed for all of this

1.5 feet deep is not very deep at all.
Cats may get to your fish and it can be a bit warm for the fish in the afternoon sun.
Mine is 3 feet.

I am just planning to keep some small fish. I have lots of guppies at home. Over 100. Good thing is the pond is shaded so not direct sun light

Are you keeping single strain/albino/single color guppies?

Well I don't know anything about pond and water feature. Doesn't even know how the filter or pump works. I will like a pond about 3 feet wide 1.5 feet deep and 5feet long. A feature wall about 6 feet height. Want to have water following down from the wall into the pond.

I am thinking of building a koi pond inside my house. I heard from MBPJ that there is a rule that the pond should be at least two feet away from the house boundary but I cannot find this rule anywhere. Does anybody know anything about this? Appreciate your help.