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Draining Pond Water and Securing Fish

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What happens here

Begin by placing your clean-out pump and hose into the pond to start pumping water into the collapsible tanks. As the water level drops, ensure the fish (koi, goldfish) are safely contained. Leave about 6 inches of water in the pond for the fish to congregate. Carefully net larger fish using a 'koi sock' (a tube net that holds water for buoyancy) and smaller fish with an open-face net. Transfer all fish into the stored pond water in the collapsible tanks. The aged, bacteria-rich water is essential for their health.

Goal: Safely drain the pond and protect fish and beneficial bacteria.

Tools and materials

  • Clean-out Pump — Pumping water out of the pond
  • Collapsible Tanks — Storing pond water and fish
  • Hose — Directing pumped water to storage tanks
  • Koi Sock — Safely netting and transferring large fish (koi)
  • Open-face Net — N netting smaller fish (goldfish)

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cleanout pump and my hose into the into the pond. And I'm going to start filling up these uh these 500gallon tanks. It's going to take a few minutes to be able to do it. Generally, our pumps are at about 4,000 gallons per hour. Right. And then I'm going to drop that down in the middle of the pond. I'm going to start filling up my tank. As the pond water is starting to drop down, I'm going to go to my filters. I have a mechanical skimmer and I have a biological filter. I'm going to remove the nets. I'm going to remove the biological filter mats. Uh the media, which is like bio balls. If you're coming across an old pond, it might be lava rock uh in there that's heavy. And I'm gonna throw that in an area in the back portion of the yard. Uh, and I'm gonna just pile that because I'm gonna clean it in a little bit after I'm filling up my 500gallon tank, maybe my 10,000 tank, right? I have multiple tanks out there. After I get done filling up these tanks to preserve that healthy uh body of or that healthy water that was dormant all winter long, I'm going to take the end of my hose that's pumping out 4,000 gallons of pond water still and I'm going to use that to clean all of my filter mats and all my media. Okay, so it's 4,000 gallons. It's going to clean it fast, right? So, I'm cleaning it with good bacteriarrich uh uh uh water. I'm also going to preserve any bacteria that is inside uh the filter mats of the biomedia. I get that all stuff clean. I'm going to take the uh the same pond water. I'm going to clean out my skimmer off the end of that 4,000gallon hose. I'm going to clean out my bofall at the end of that 4,000 hose. And I may even clean out my stream with that 4,000 gallons pumping and just start recirculating from the stream down into the pond because it could have just muck and debris and stuff. The next step is I have my tanks filled, my filters are clean. This all is within the first hour maybe. Stanley. Now, as the pond water is draining down, I am picking up any debris that I can and I'm putting it in five gallon buckets that have holes drilled in the bottom of it. So, when I'm putting wet algae in there, when I'm putting sticks and leaves that I grab with my big neoprene gloves that are on my hand, um, I'm grabbing all that stuff. When I lift that bucket and I lift that bucket up, it's not heavy filled with pond water. I can get rid of that debris. Hopefully, they got woods or the forest nearby, right? And they give us permission to do that.…

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