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    The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond
    The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond
    The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond
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    The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond

    By Bob Long

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    Bring the relaxing sights and sounds of a water garden into your yard

    o Enjoy the colorful activity of koi as they dart and splash in a garden pond !
    o Grow regal water lilies, lotus and other aquatic plants
    o Fall asleep to the soothing sounds of a backyard waterfall!

    Here is the complete guide to building a koi pond and raising these magnificent, ornamental fish. This book is chock full of useful information including:
    o Where to locate your pond
    o How to design and build a pond
    o Installing pond liners, pumps and filters
    o Adding fish and plants
    o Maintaining the fish pond through out the 4 seasons
    o Adding lighting to make your pond shine at night
    o How to estimate the cost of building a pond
    o Free Pond Cost Calculator available with purchase

    Plan and build your own pond with the help of detailed instructions and easy to follow photos and drawings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Long
    Release dateMar 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301265411
    The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond
    Author

    Bob Long

    Bob Long was born in the Bronx, NY and grew up in a close-knit blue collar family. His education and work experience is in engineering and finance, as a senior executive at Fortune 500 companies and a small business owner. He has worked in a variety of industries including transportation, finance, healthcare and technology. He has many interests including fishing, gardening, sports and surfing the Internet. He likes to write about subjects for which he has a passionate interest and can draw on his experience as a engineer, businessman and outdoors-man. He currently lives in Texas with his wife of 25+ years, 2 teen age children and bunch of dogs.

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      The EZ Guide to Building a Koi Pond - Bob Long

      Chapter 1

      Why Build a Koi Pond

      For the last 20 years, I have had the pleasure of building fish ponds, breeding koi, and growing aquatic plants in my backyard. We have moved multiple times so I have gone through the effort of building garden ponds on several occasions in both cold and warm weather locations. Each of these koi ponds has been bigger and more elaborate (Figure 1) than the previous one. From this experience and research, I have learned methods for building ponds that create beautiful and unique water features while minimizing effort and expense.

      The ongoing maintenance work involved in koi pond maintenance is also largely determined by how the pond is originally designed and constructed. Garden ponds should bring pleasure while adding value to your property but not create an inordinate amount of additional work. When koi ponds are properly designed and stocked, keeping water quality at a high level does not require a large expenditure of money and time.

      Figure 1: My Latest Pond

      Besides enhancing the value of your home, I have found that there are many reasons for building a koi pond. Here are a few:

      Experience the Wonderful World of Koi!

      My fish of choice for stocking our garden ponds has always been the graceful and beautiful koi. These colorful fish are long lived, friendly and relatively easy to keep. With good water quality, the koi will naturally reproduce (Figure 2) and grow rapidly so it will not be necessary to buy additional fish after the initial stocking. Of course if you come across the must have koi you can always add it, the other of the fish won't mind! Just don't add fish beyond the capacity of the koi pond. Guidelines for how many fish can be safely stocked in a koi pond are covered in the Pond Fish chapter.

      Figure 2: Kujaku or Peacock Koi with Young Koi

      Grow Beautiful and Unique Plants!

      Another reason to build a pond is to add unique water plants to your garden. Koi Ponds and Gardens just naturally go together. Building a koi pond that only holds fish will enhance a backyard by itself, but it also provides the opportunity to grow a variety of aquatic plants that are impossible in a land only garden. These plants will work together with the fish to create a balanced and self maintaining environment that is beautiful and fun to interact with. Of particular note are water lilies (Figure 3) which will quickly become one of the outstanding inhabitants of the backyard pond. These magnificent plants are virtually maintenance free and will add unique color and fragrance to any property.

      Figure 3: Water Lilies, Aristocrats of the Pond

      Create a World Where You Can Listen to Waterfalls, Frogs and More!

      Waterfalls are wonderful visual and auditory features to have on your property. The sounds of a waterfall are considered some of the most relaxing and soothing in nature and as such are often featured in Sleep Sound Machines. So why not listen to the real thing in your own backyard? Frogs help control the insect population and serenade you on warm spring and summer nights with their glorious love songs. They also love to sit on your lily pads and sun themselves on hot summer days. Frogs will reproduce and you can watch them as they evolve from tadpoles to bull frogs.

      In this book, the objective is to share what I have learned about building a koi ponds with individuals or families who are interested in the creating their own garden ponds and waterfalls.

      The book is organized around the sequence of events that are involved in building a pond with links to each subject in the table of contents. We begin with where to locate the pond, provide instruction on building the pond, followed by stocking the pond with fish and plants, and ongoing koi pond maintenance. We also include pages describing the various

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