I purchased a house with a koi pond. I noticed that the water began to diminish quite quickly and I was having to fill up the pond more and more. As a novice koi owner I began to study the hobby and quickly found that water doesn’t evaporate that much and I had the worst issue on my hands…a pond leak. The pond is approximately 500 gallons and I recently had a pond rebuilder complete an estimate for a rebuild and expansion. I’m still waiting for the estimate and there is no telling when he will get out here to begin working on the job (he was the only one in town I could find). Upon cleaning the pond, we believe the pipes that run from the pump to the waterfall are cracked and that is where the water is leaking from. We fill the pond up at night and when we wake in the morning it has nearly depleted itself. We shut the pump off and the water level holds, but I know I cannot do this until the pond is rebuilt because koi need filtration and aeration. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with the fish until I can get the pond rebuilt? I have already lost three fish who somehow managed to get into the netting around the pump and I am devastated. I sure don’t want to lose anymore. Can I put them in a tub and buy a make shift pump/filter in the meantime? Thanks in advance for any advice!

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Hello, I was wondering how i could make a betta pond?
What would be an ideal container or material to make this pond out of?
I realize betta cannot be in deep water, so i will lower the water level down to around 7-9 inches and throw a bunch of water lettuce and amazon frogbit in there for cover.
What would be good filtration for such a pond? cant be too strong for the betta, but i guess it cant be just a few sponge filters…?
This will obviously be heated at around 79-80F…so i guess ill need a few heaters.
The reason im am looking into doing this is because i need a large amount of water to house a lot of plakat betta fry. Im planning of only housing females in this pond, and ill pick out the males as they grow…
Thanks for any help!
Thank you answer man, that does give me an idea of building a wooden-board support for the pond…but i am wondering i i can ust use a big container instead of a kiddy pool..
neils, I like the way you think lol.
Yes, than kyou hope, realize thats true now, that they have more room. but im not going to risk that anyway. the only way im putting males in there is if i get some hemaphroditic males from the batch. for anyone’s info hemaphroditic males are very rare, and they barely have any agression to other males. they are also sterile…

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I have 2 African Clawed Dwarf frogs, a Betta, And an apple snail. They are housed in a ten gallon tank with out any filtration, air pumps heaters, etc… The tank is kept at a constant 74F and is divided 2/5 gallon ratio (I am keeping the water level at 7 gallons). The frogs are 3-5" long and are not normally too jumpy.

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It is divided the betta and snail have 2gal the frogs have 5gal.

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