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A Koi Pond is An Added Garden Beauty
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Many people love their gardens very dearly, and work hard to make them unique and beautiful. And sometimes building a koi pond is exactly the thing to turn their garden from merely beautiful to something distinctive. Koi fish are a brightly colored and patterned species of carp that are now considered Japanese, but which are thought possibly to have originated in Persia. Because of their jewel colors and striking patterns, they are one of the favored kinds of fish in specially built garden ponds, partly as decoration and partly as an enhancement to the natural environment.
The first recommendation everyone gives about creating a koi pond is to make it big. Koi are fish that can eventually grow quite large, but collectors often enjoy this species so much that they keep adding new ones to the pond, with different colors and patterns. So the pond design will require a lot of space. It should probably be quite deep as well, to give the fish room to move and breathe. About one fish per 100 gallons is a general rule, and a depth of five to eight feet is probably sufficient. This will also help protect the fish from predators.
These ponds need protection in several ways, in fact. The depth will help reduce danger from many sorts of predators, from raccoons, to cats, to kingfishers. Great Blue Herons can do a lot of damage as well, so some builders even recommend placing a bird net over the pond. The fish also need protection from direct sunlight, so a koi pond should have some shade, yet without being directly under trees and getting clogged with falling leaves. Water lilies can help provide some of this needed shading effect.
If you take the proper precautions, then you should have a healthy koi pond. Be sure to take as much care over your fish pond supplies as you do in selecting the fish and creating the pond itself. Have the proper filters to keep the pond clean, and remember that in the winter, the pond can’t be allowed to freeze over, so you’ll likely need a heater too. The severity of the winter climate might even be a factor in whether you should have this type of pond at all. But hopefully, with the right preparations and precautions, you can create a jewel to set into your garden and lift it into the realm of the extraordinary.
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