Before I got in to the Koi habit, my pond was home to a number of various types of fish, mainly Goldies and Shubbies that had been passed to me for various reasons, the normal one was that they had outgrown the bowl they were living in .
Over the last year I have managed to re-home all the Shubbies and two very large Mirror Carp to one of our new members ( Hi Sue ) , who I am hoping that when she finishes building her new Goldie pond, might like to take the rest of my Goldies . I will keep the ones that have a deformity of any kind, as I am quite used to seeing them in the pond. ( yeah I know I am strange, but I promised their old owners I would look after them, and I keep my promises) .
OK to get back to the topic of this thread, as we have been informed that we are due a bad winter this year, I have moved them all in to the newly built QT, as it is a lot deeper than the boat pond.( fingers crossed I wont need it for any Koi).
Next year I wanted to get rid of the boat and build a new pond, as I wanted to have more Koi, the boat pond would be too shallow for Koi, at aprox 20" deep, when I mentioned to my DW that I wanted to build a new pond, she complained as she likes the boat , so my next thought was , what if I cut out the bottom of the boat so all that is left is the surrounding framework, and dig a large hole underneath then add a liner , leaving the boat in place . I could then upgrade all of the pumps and filtration, and kill two birds with one stone, I would have my second Koi pond, and DW would have the boat pond still in place.
What would you do ? for those who have not seen it before, this is the Boat pond.