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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary R View Post
    @ lost

    Over the years I have had tropical fish, cichlids, marine tanks loads of and 3 Koi ponds

    nothing as fancy as yours........

    I did have 6 marine tanks going at the same time in each room in the house until the mrs put her foot down and now back to just the one in the back room which is a 6x2x2

    I'm 3/4 the way doing my new koi pond which as been on going for the last 3 months it is just over 2100 gals

    so into my fish in a small way
    same here, ive kept anything from blue ringed octopus, seahorses, cuttlefish(not together) to general guppies and platys etc had loads. largest fish so far is my current length wise but had various tankbuster tropicals and marines but had some woppers.its the same in my house with my misses, im limited to only the two setups. But currently building trop pond for the electric eel taking up an outdoor brick shed which sadly has been a frozen project due too a vet bill that drained my funds. will finish it eventually always do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary R View Post
    @ lost

    Over the years I have had tropical fish, cichlids, marine tanks loads of and 3 Koi ponds

    nothing as fancy as yours........

    I did have 6 marine tanks going at the same time in each room in the house until the mrs put her foot down and now back to just the one in the back room which is a 6x2x2

    I'm 3/4 the way doing my new koi pond which as been on going for the last 3 months it is just over 2100 gals

    so into my fish in a small way
    what dimensions is the pond your building gary?

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    Re: "electric eel"

    Its a funny shape pond

    But it is 4.5ft deep x 15ft x 12ft abouts going in to 5ft at the far end.

    when I metered it, it was just over 2100 gals and still some to go to fill it....but this will not be done until next year now as still got some more bricks to add to the hight.

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    sounds lovely mate, im currently building a 12 x 6 x 4 for my electric eel. once she hits the 6 foot mark or close too will move to a 16 x 9 x 4 just for the one fish i must been insane. you will have to put up pics when your done. is it for koi you have grown on yourself?

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    All that for one eel.... thought I was mad

    My pond is for my koi yes.... I have 20 in there at the moment, did have 10 when I started the re-build, but the Chagoi found it hard being moved and died, it was one of me biggest which was 24" long and I had it for 15 years and a 19" Utsuri which thought it would jump out of the swimming pool when I was at work and that was with a net over it
    So have added 12 new one's over the last 2 months costing over £2500 ranging from a 18" Doitsu Hariwake, two 18" Doitsu Kohaku, 16" Shiro Utsuri, 16" Tancho plus a few other's ...but don't tell my Mrs as she will go nuts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary R View Post
    All that for one eel.... thought I was mad

    My pond is for my koi yes.... I have 20 in there at the moment, did have 10 when I started the re-build but one found it hard being moved and died me biggest which was 24" long and had for 15 years and a 19" which thought it would jump out of the swimming pool when I was at work and that was with a net over it
    So have added 12 new one's over the last 2 months costing over £2500 ...but don't tell my Mrs as she will go nuts.
    yeah they are pricey depending on types etc my friend has a pond most of us could only dream, has some absolute giant albino sturgeon and when i say giant i mean 8 foot+ in with them he has various koi, again they are absolute monsters!!! few smaller ones in there too. in the summer he has got in swimming with them. he must of spent atleast 200k+ on these(yes im serious ). cant remember the dimensions though, bloody deep!!! hadnt seen him for years and when i popped in to a kennels he owns he gave me a tour. i dont have a coldwater pond myself but if carling did ponds that would be it. money to burn ay. hunt about for better netting mate last thing you want is to lose anymore. when i had me own shop once out back i had a pond(already there when i moved in) which i kept orfe tench goldfish and various allsorts plus carp, was over stocked. about 16 x 20 x 4 i netted it as bleeding heron had a taste for the orfe in particular plus the orfe love to jump ou, bout a week later i had a few various fish dead stuck in the net, heron was trying to pull them through the net but tangling them up in the process. eventually put friend german shepherd out back for a week and heron moved on. i then had a large rollout plastic mesh cover put over n had no trouble after that nightmare

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    Re: "electric eel"

    Will be getting in with mine sometime this week, as i'v got some more rocks dropped off last night from a m8 who found them sorting his garden out and need to put the new buddha that I have at the back of the pond.

    I did put some pictures on here, of my pond build but they are upside down so will take some more and try again.

    Hopfully the way I have my pond with all the trees around no heron would try to land there as will find it hard to take off again ....I hope.

    The netting is now gone it was only for the round swimming pool I got as a holding tank for them until I got the pond sorted enough to put them back in.

    would of liked to seen your m8s pond sounds nice as well.

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    Re: "electric eel"

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NX1noCmk

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    Re: "electric eel"

    well I have notice that my pond heater as started to kick in now in the evenings...I have it set to switch on at 15c and go off at 15.5c

    God knows what the bill would be for your eel once its in a pond

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    Re: "electric eel"

    Quote Originally Posted by Gary R View Post
    well I have notice that my pond heater as started to kick in now in the evenings...I have it set to switch on at 15c and go off at 15.5c

    God knows what the bill would be for your eel once its in a pond
    apparently set for a very cold winter this year too, just a heads up. definitely far colder all of a sudden. Always best to be prepared

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