My Fish Tanks and Simple Fish Ponds

About Ponds
How Ponds Work
Rules of Thumb, Misc Info
Designing a Koi Pond Biofilter / Bioreactor -- Bilfilm requirements
ShortyPen Barrel Filter 3
Links To Other Pond Sites
Phoenix Koi Rescue

180 Gallon Small Concrete & Cinder Block Test Pond
Pour Concrete Slab
Put Up Block Walls & Stucco
Fill Up First Time
Backflush Air Distributor
Trash Can Biofilter
Backflush Cleaning Biofilter
Solar Panel
Lessons Learned After 6 months

300 Gallon Koi Fish Hatchery Tanks
Green Hatchery Tank - Setup For Crowded Koi Keeping

3200 Gallon Dolphin Tank
Getting the tank & bringing home
Pour rest of concrete
Setup the tank and fiberglass it together
Filter system & barrel stand
Weekly water changing system
Shade and net cover
Filling Up First Time
Pictures of fish in the window of the tank

My Fish
Koi
2008 WWKC Koi Show
2009 WWKC Koi Show
Gingerbread Koi House

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Fish and Tanks I no longer have

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25 Gallon Aquarium
Homemade Undergravel Filter

300 Gallon Koi Fish Hatchery Tanks
Hatchery Tanks
Pour concrete for koi hatchery tank area
Koi culling process
My comets spawning
Shubunkin spawning
Koi spawning and fry
Green Hatchery Tank - Setup For Crowded Koi Keeping

1200 Gallon Super Tank
Getting the tank & bringing home
Fixing up to hold water for initial use

Fish
Bluegill & Sunfish
Goldfish & Pond Comets
Take Daisy to school
Misc Others
Minnow Trap & Fishing Bucket
Fish I have available


Fish Humor
Catfish Tries To Eat Basketball
Fishing Buddy Dilema
Wife's Fishing Lure


GREAT BOOK --- "Freshwater Fishes" by Lawrence M. Page and Brooks M. Burr, part of the Peterson Field Guides series ISBN: 0395910919
I really enjoy searching for, and collecting native fish to stock my pond and aquarium. Only problem I am having is figuring out what I have caught. This is a great book which has 47 photo pages of fish, grouped together so you can quickly flip thru the pages to identify which fish you caught. In the back of the book it has 133 maps of the areas which the fish are found in the wild, so you can look thru them and see which fish live around you. It is the only book I use, and after I identify the fish with the book and get it's common name, I use google images to search for more pictures on the net to further confirm the fish identification.

To the right is a direct link to Amazon where you can purchase it new, or used for around $6. If you click thru with this link, I get a kickback from Amazon - proceeds will help support my website habit. Thanks.