koi pond design

koi pond design

Backyard Ponds > Koi Pond Design

3 More Mundane Koi
Pond Design Pointers

These koi pond design pointers aren't glamorous. But they are important.

Your koi pond should have an overflow area. This is nothing more than some yard space a little below the grade or the height of the pond. This way if you inadvertently overfill your pond or experience a torrential downpour, the excess water has a place to go besides flooding the neighbor's, or worse, your basement.

Koi Pond Design Tip: All overflows should be screened to prevent pond escapees. The last thing you want to see is your prize asaki koi flopping around in the grass. Besides keeping your fish where they belong, in the pond, this also protects any nearby streams from any potential non native species.

Next, as with any real estate think location, location location.

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You want to try to dig your pond where it will get up to six hours of sun every day - just not full sun. Avoid trees. Not only for the shade, but roots when digging. Not to mention all the leaves, twigs and other debris they will deposit into the water.

Along the same lines don't forget this when designing your pond. Consider the distance to your water supply as well as electrical supply. You'll need to power up filters, pumps and lights if you've got them and electricians aren't cheap you know.

Koi Pond Design Tip: With any outside wiring only use GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) outlets or breakers. Water and electricity don't mix. Trip time is much quicker with GFCI outlets and breakers than normal circuit breakers.

Plus can't forget drainage. You don't want to situate your pond in a low spot that might result in yard run off spilling into the pond and perhaps harming the koi.

To Summarize Koi Pond Design:
In the first part of koi pond design looked at why deeper, bigger and using vertical walls is smart.

Part two of koi pond design we looked at water quality issues.

While on this page we got into some rather mundane, yet no less important points to remember when designing your backyard pond.

Koi Pond Design