The Benefits of Having a Koi Pond in Your Garden

A Koi pond in your yard is not only an attraction for your guests, but it is also a great way to relax and rejuvenate in your home. The view of the fish is wonderful and especially when you hear the sound of running water.  Let’s look at some of the benefits a pond with Koi offers to your home.

  • Aesthetics: No one can deny the aesthetic beauty that a pond offers to your yard. It doesn’t matter if you’ve hired a high-end designer to design it or you’ve designed it yourself. A Koi pond adds an unparalleled elegance and style to your home and garden.
  • Environmentally friendly: When you add a pond to your yard, it will also encourage the growth of impressive and colourful plants, which will attract butterflies and birds, thus creating your own natural and relaxing space.
  • Increases the value of your property: If you ask a real estate broker, he will tell you that a Koi pond in your yard increases marketability and will add value to your property.
  • Brings good luck: The Japanese believe that Koi are fish that bring good luck to your home.
  • Koi can eat from your hand: You can offer food to your Koi with your hand. You will be surprised by the feeling of your Koi eating out of your hand. This wonderful contact makes them even more lovable.
  • Easy pets: If you want to have pets but do not have time to take care of them, then the best solution is a Koi pond. Feeding and caring can be automated for as long as you are away.
  • Get rid of insects and flies: Mosquitoes and flies are common problems in a garden, but if you add a pond of Koi fish, you can effectively get rid of annoying bites, as Koi love eating insects.
  • Koi Ponds are easier to maintain: Technology today, enables us to use filters that require minimum maintenance. In this way we enjoy our pond and fish without any particular effort.
  • Long living pets: Koi fish live an average of 50 years. It is known that the longest-lived Koi lived for more than 200 years.