If you have any fish eating birds then coi aren't a good idea. There way too bright and don't have a chance at hiding. There beautiful, grow fast and I hear are good to eat, but are an easy snack for heron.
Good to know. Luckily, my pond will be in an area fairly difficult for birds to get in and out of easily, so that may help. Guess we'll just have to see. I do plan on giving them some things to hide in too.
There are fish that eat algae. Not sure how well they get along with koi, so will have to check that.
My "to do" list this weekend though, is kind of keeping me from working on other prep stuff.
Just hope I get to all this stuff. At least the rest of the family is chipping in on some too.
Fix a water faucet in the stables
Put up 3 different feed buckets in stalls (need to build framing boards for each too)
Fix a hole in my son's ceiling (cut drywall, putty, paint, etc.)
Fix my daughter's iron bed
Rip out the carpet in her new room
Replace it with tile
Hang a light in her bathroom (shower is kind of dark)
Paint the new room
Clean and organize my walk in closet (which folks turned into a storage closet)
Clean and organize our bedroom
Reorganize Kitchen Cabinets and Pantry
Basically, our ranchhand gal moved on, and we've realized a lot of the time, she just put things wherever she liked, etc. Since hers was a bigger room with it's own bathroom (Mother In Law Suite), moving our daughter in there now (so my wife gets her scrapbooking room back). Going to be a busy weekend.
EDIT: Apparently Koi are algae eaters themselves, so you don't need them (like Placo's) (plus they don't really get along)