Constructing an Enormous Koi Pond from the Ground Up!

This client had a very small patio pond full of beloved koi. When it was time to upgrade, we went BIG.

This is not your typical pond. There are no water lilies, no terraced and trickling waterfalls, and no lavish landscaping. No, this pond is all about the fish and their comfort as well as the happiness of the client.

This pond is around 8 feet deep and a whopping 9000 gallons! It has a secluded cave built in, which offers the koi a dark and cold stress-free zone. Four Sheer Descent waterfalls create ideal aeration for the large inhabitants.

This pond is so nice that even the owners have been know to join their koi from time to time in a swim!

Click through the slideshow below to see how we built a koi mansion from the ground up!

1-Prepping the Site Location

2-Plumbing Bottom Drains

3-Plumbing Bottom Drains

4-Bottom Drains Installed

5-Installing ReBar

6-Installing Plumbing Lines & ReBar

7-Installing ReBar

8-Installing Plumbing Lines & ReBar

9-Installing Plumbing Lines & ReBar

10-Installing ReBar

11-Installing Plumbing Lines & ReBar

12-Site Prep for Gunite

13-Site Prepped for Gunite

14-Site Prepped for Gunite

15-Gunite Application

16-Gunite Application

17-Gunite Application

18-Gunite Application

19-Gunite Application

20-Concrete Column Install

21-Finished Concrete Pond Shell

22-Finished Concrete Pond Shell

23-Prepping Wet Plug of Penetrations

24-Wet Plug Application of Penetration Sites

25-Wet Plug Applied to Penetrations

26-Prepping Concrete Column for Carving

27-Prepping Concrete Column for Carving

28-Stone Carving Concrete Column

29-Stone Carving Concrete Column

30-Front Wall Mortar - Weeping Wall Prepped

31-Weeping Wall Mortar Install

32-Setting Sheer Descent WaterFall Inserts

33-Weeping Wall & WaterFall Inserts Installed

34-Pond Filtration System Pre-Install

35-Plumbing Pond Filtration System

36-Pond Filtration System Installed

37-Equipment for WaterProofing

38 WaterProofing Prep Material

39-Mixing WaterProofing Material

40-Prepping WaterProofing Material

41-Prepping WaterProofing

42-WaterProof Application

43-WaterProof Application

44-WaterProof Application

45-WaterProof Installed

46-WaterProof Installed

47-Prepping Black Coat WaterProofing

48-Prepping Black Coat WaterProofing

49-Install Black Coat WaterProofing

50-Black Coat WaterProofing in the Koi Cave

51-Black Coat WaterProofing

52-Black Coat WaterProofing

53-Black Coat WaterProofing

54-Black Coat WaterProofing

55-Prepping Final Coat WaterProof Material

56-Final Coat Black WaterProofing Trowel Application

57-Final Coat AquaFin Water Sealant

58-Final Coping Install

59-Starting to Fill Pond with Water

60-Transfer Fish to New Pond

61-Transfer Fish to New Pond

62-Fish Checking Out New Surroundings

63-Fire Up the Pumps & Filtration System

64-Starting the Side WaterFalls

65-Side WaterFall Flowing

66-Testing the UnderWater Lights

67-Weeping Wall WaterFall

68-Starting of the Weeping Wall WaterFall

69-Sheer Descent WaterFall

70-Sheer Descent WaterFall Flowing

71-Memorial Statue Install

72-Finished Pond_edited