I agree....{:O) MIKE
"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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Eyeball it..LOL Nothing scientific about it. I have never checked
water
PH
etc in over 10 years. It is an outdoor pond . Its conditions are
dependent
on how much rain or lack of rain we get. If we get plenty of rain
...that
in
itself changes the water in the pond. If it is a dry spell in the
Summer
I
might do a 1/3 water change every other week. I am not going to drive
myself nuts trying to keep the water conditions at a perfect level. My
10
year old Koi are proof that you don't have to go overboard and make
allot
of
work for yourself with keeping a healthy pond. It is much better to
have
fish that are adaptable to varying conditions, outdoor koi and goldfish
are
those types of creatures. Very adaptable. IMHO and experience. MIKE

I think you are right with one caveat...I pond in the same manner, build
it
and let it take care of itself, but when I built, I over built my filter.
I
think if you have a large body of water, properly filtered, it is much
more
forgiving then an overstocked, smaller pond.

BV.