erniemadden

hi new to koi keeping and need some helpful advice, hubbys just built a 10' x 9' x 5' unheated pond, been full for about 2 weeks I was wondering how soon can i transfer the fish from the 1000L preformed pond. Any advice greatly appreciated plus does anyone kow of any good koi groups in the south wales area.

icesizzla

Hi

A couple of points need to be adressed for the move,
1) how many fish will you be transfering?
2) check the temp of old and new pond.

If there are several fish then put in half of them and then after the first week add a few every other day and just feed a little so as not to create an overload on the new filters. All this providing the two ponds are within a degree or so of each other. It is an arkward time of year to move fish about due to the lower temps.

Jono ;D ;D

erniemadden

hi jono thx for the reply, water temps are the same in both ponds 8C there are about 12 fish to be transfered i've read on a few sites to transfer some of the water from the old pond to the new one along with the fish and same filters are to be used.

MARK1

Hi Angel yes that is a good idea to use some of the existing water from the old pond and also using the existing filter but will your existing filter be big enough to cope with the new pond gallonage ?? as it is over ten times the capacity

erniemadden

hi mik I will be running 2 filters the uv filter from the old pond along with a large blagdon filter which I aquired fron a friend with 2 aquashift 6500 pumps.