This video shows me removing my QT tank it was a lot worse than i expected and it's pretty amazing it didn't just fall to pieces. The reason it help up so long was probably due to the thick fiberglass.
Considering the condition of the wood it was a good thing that the fibreglass was as strong as it was otherwise the entire tank might have collapsed. You definitely made the right choice to tear it down. 👍🏻
What a shame Adam, another great post well done mate, it’s a great decision not to build a new one in there. I’ve fitted a Bakker river with siperax on the strength of yours. All the best Rob 🤩👍
Back when you first put this in I sent you a message telling you that you had no way of knowing what is going on with water going down behind. You needed to make sure the whole thing was fully sealed. I also have a similar pond in my shed that I built from wood, but it has a brickwork retaining wall on the front. It was the first Koi pond I built and works fine, but I have learned over the years that ponds like this (5,000L) don't really work for raising fish. You just can't feed them the way you need to for them to grow without creating problems. What do you think?
Yeah I agree 100% should have done more to protect the wood work like i said it should have been fiberglass on the outside if that had been done it would have still been like new. The tank it's seamed to be a good size although the fish would never really grow very much in there they grew a lot better in my 400gal tank than this 1000gal tank I can't really say why that was. the reasons for them not growing as much could be as simple as food because the 400gal tank was in the fish house where i spend a lot of time I just put food in every time the fish ask for it but In the 1000gal they only got fed when i made the trip to go see them.
Hi Adam great video thanks, I have a 3500 gallon fiberglass pond that has a leak and I'm trying to think how to build a temp pond to house my 19 koi for a few months some of the fish are 25 years so I don't want to lose any. Any ideas you have greatly appreciated appreciated appreciated
A lot, ponds are quite high consumers of electricity they run 24/7 and you cant turn anything off. when i built the fish house 9 years ago energy companies would try to give their best price possible to get one customer that uses as much electricity as we did so i managed to get on a 8p/Kw energy tariff now I'm paying 32p/kw so its gone up a bit.
