Hi
My name is Hartvig, and I live in Norway. I have a pond at one million gallons where I have started a major upgrade. I've started a YouTube channel to have a place to gather documentation from the project. This year the focus has been the environment around the pond. I have spent much time getting cleared away lots of trees and scrub. in addition, I replaced the fence. Next year I have to look at what to do with the pond itself. Since I live in Norway, it is now winter, and the pond is covered with snow and ice. When I start again in the spring, I hope there is someone who will give me advice on what kind of solutions I shall choose to create circulation in the water

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Welcome to PBF Hartvig!

Beautiful pond and setting! I've always wanted to visit your country.

There are lots of good people here at PBF that I'm sure can help when the time comes and you have specific questions. Please tell us more about the pond. For example,
how deep is it? When I think of Norway I think of cold, harsh winters. Is that correct?

I am looking forward to following along as your project progresses.

Again welcome!

Bill D.

Hey Bill
Thanks for the nice welcome. Finding this forum here, it felt like coming home I have participated in various forums in the last 10 years, but this has only been forum dedicated to koi and goldfish. Here there have been few who have had knowledge to challenges with a pond in the size I have. Not to talk about the challenges of the temperatures I have where I live. At this forum it is I who have the "small pond"!

I live halfway between Oslo (the capital) and Lillehammer (Olympic Winter Games 1994). In other words, the temperature range from + 30C in summer to -25C in winter.

I will make a separate film about the details of the pond. When you have seen it will be easier to understand what I'm trying to get to

The main reason I'm making a YouTube channel, is that my other hobbies is flying with drones (Phantome 4), shooting film (Drone, Canon and GoPro) and create gardens. In connection with work, I have a need to learn how to edit film. When kids has started to fuss about creating their own YouTube channel, I thought that it's okay to do it yourself first so that I actually understand what this is about.

The bonus is that it is a great way for my own part, to document what happens in the pond. It is especially nice to let others who are not able to have such a pond, the opportunity to participate in this journey.

It's nice if you all subscribe to my channel. The aim of the channel is not to maximize subscribers. But it's nice to see that people like what I spend time creating.

If the goal were as many subscribers as possible, the kids are telling me that I must create a channel about Pokemon Go or makeup. I think I'll stick to my pond

Hey Hartvig,

While the videos are nice, and I'm sure they will be a great resource for you in documenting your project, I suggest, in addition to posting video links, you might consider just posting a few photos and a few words of explanation/query as well. This might get you more responses from the pros on the forum. A lot of the pros do their best to respond to as many posts as they can but time is limited. It can take quite a lot of time to watch videos. Just a suggestion.

Bill D.

I'm not a pro and don't know a lot about cold water fish ponds.

But, welcome home.

Dealt with a few Koi ponds. Gonna need some good filtration...especially with those trees around it. A million gallons is quite an undertaking for a koi pond! How deep is it? What predators do you have around? Birds and mammals will destroy the koi as they like to be up at surface. Put some big hiding spots in for them to escape.

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You're absolutely right As I need advice, I will supplemented my questions with background information.

But I will gladly answer any questions

Thanx MaxH
The pond are 4 meter deep on its deepest. Birds are the biggest threat. It is normally no raptors in this part of Norway. But ... in a later video, you will see that they are here too ...

Thanx for the nice welcome

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E006 - 130 Koi playing in the woods Link

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Episode 8

Great. Do you ever fish for them?

What do you mean with "fish for them?". Fishing rod is prohibited in this pond

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Episode 13

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E013 - I pumped out 1.000.000 gallon of water!

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Episode 14

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E014 - ICE ICE BABY

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Episode 15

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E015 - The first flight

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Episode 16

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E016 - The Koi Park takes shape

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I have watched your videos and I am really amazed to see such a big and beautiful koi, your planning for upgrading this pond looks good. Hope for your success in this plan

Quite the undertaking Haab!

Thank you to both of you

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E017 - They are going down!

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Episode 18

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E018 - What a mess!

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Episode 19

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E019 - How to make massive trees into woodchips

In todays episode, you can see how the contractor made woodchips of all the trees, twigs and sprigs. BRUKS mobile chippers are an impressive sight when they chew up big threes. In one day, they removed more than 200 m3 of woodchips. It would have taken me all summer to do it by hand. Despite rain and mist, I was able to get some cool drone videos. Unfortunately, I had to leave for work when the "Chipper" took care of the largest trees. When I got back home 10 hours later, it was all gone.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E20 - What the Mobile Chipper left behind

In todays episode, you can see what the chipper had left behind. The chipper removed more than 200 m3, witch was a big improvement. But the chipper left behind a lot of twigs and sprigs. He did not want to remove them because the contractor was worried he would get stones into the chipper. Luckily I had another contractor lined up who could fix the problem.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E21 - Excavator to the rescue

In todays episode, you can see the excavator which helps me take this project a quantum leap forward. It was a big job to remove all of the branches and sprig. It was an even bigger job to remove all the major roots that were left behind.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E22 - The rescuemisson continues

In todays episode, you can see the excavator continue its rescuemission .

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Episode 23:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E023 - Stones, stones and more stones

As the excavator continues its work, I understand the hard facts: I will dream about stones for a long time. Worst part? A lot of it will have to be removed by hand next summer ...

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E24 - What 3 excavators + 5 tractors can do ...

In this episode, you can see what 3 excavators and 5 tractors can do in a a couple of days. There are two more episodes of this upgrade, before the focus of the channel changes to to "realtime". This spring 50+ tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, picking them up at the airport, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond. Will everything go better this time?

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E25 - The excavator finish the landscaping job

In this episode, the excavator finish the landscaping job. There are one more episode of this upgrade, before the focus of the channel changes to to "realtime". This spring 50+ tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, picking them up at the airport, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E026 - Finishing the 2016 upgrade

In this video, we finish the 2016 upgrade. The excavator leaves, and a new a new fence will come in place. To knock down hundreds of fence posts, Is a heavy manual job! In the next video, the focus changes to 2017. This spring 80 small Yamabuki (Marudo) tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond. In the summer, the 2017 upgrade begins.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E27 - The arrival of 80 new koi

In this episode, we start a new serie! Follow the arrival of 80 new koi from Marudo in Japan. On April 13, I picked up 80 small Yamabuki tosai at the airport . In this episode we will see them for the first time. In this serie, we will follow the preparations, the quarantine prosess, the growing of this small koi, and of course, the release of them all into the big pond this summer.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E28 - Caring for 80 tosai


In this episode, we can see the changes in the behavior of the 80 tosai as the temperatur raises. When they arrived the the temperatur was 12 C. At that temperatur they where not moving more than they had to. As the temperatur slowly raises to 21 C the tosai wakes up.

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The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E29 - A new beginning

In this episode, the spring wakes up the pond. Will the first koi show up?

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Episode 30:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E30 - The hunt for koi continues

As the surroundings (and the pond!) starts to get green, and the sun heats the pond, the hunt for my five koi continues. Have they survived the long winter, and the long and cold spring?

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