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- Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:23 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: How deep does a koi pond need to be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24664
Much depends on your hopes as to stocking levels, with sensible levels as part of your planning that only leaves the pond to consider from a practical perspective. I believe one of the contributing factors with my sisters problems with her koi is the stupid pond dimensions. It's 7' x 6' x 5' deep, w...
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:35 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: How deep does a koi pond need to be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24664
IMHO - There's no truth I've been able to corroborate in the depth versus heat issue, all the warm layer stuff has little bearing on modern ponds at the depths we're talking about. As for the growth issues I can tell you that is definitely a myth, the water quality not quantity is what indirectly ef...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:29 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: To Those Running RO
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12233
Unfortunately the only company I have ever spoken to who seem to have clue was www.drydenaqua.com, but they do not claim to have koi specific knowledge. I have also heard good things of a company called all clear? Run by a lady of some repute in the koi world I believe, but regardless I think ponder...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: To Those Running RO
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12233
Chris, I was a little the worse for a bottle of fine wine, and I did expect more flack for expressing such strong bias towards RO. Especially as I have previously been called elitist for promoting such an expensive addition to koi ponds. I have edited the post by removing my pessimistic opener, than...
- Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:44 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: To Those Running RO
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12233
The responses so far are pretty much what I would have predicted, which is unfortunate, because the actual potential is worth far more than that. In the interest of modesty I have to assume I got lucky, because my perspective on the results is so far away from the average to date it's not on the sam...
- Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:01 am
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Mini Shower
- Replies: 87
- Views: 131774
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:31 am
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Shade Sails
- Replies: 32
- Views: 60203
Ah ha, a memory man! That was another reason for striving to complete the project, it's much more difficult to write convincingly about theory than fact. I will have more time certainly, but I will not be retiring per se, rather semi retirement, so hopefully work will occupy around 10 hours per week...
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Shade Sails
- Replies: 32
- Views: 60203
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:57 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Shade Sails
- Replies: 32
- Views: 60203
The hardest part will be finding good homes for my koi, of the 12 two are chicken koi but 10 are high quality and several are good sizes. The two chicken koi will be given away but selling the others to a good home usually means a fair bit of travelling for buyer and Koi. I would consider myself luc...
- Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:54 am
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Shade Sails
- Replies: 32
- Views: 60203
- Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:46 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: Shade Sails
- Replies: 32
- Views: 60203
A novel solution to the problem, and certainly very sensible if you're thinking of moving. The koi will love you for getting the PH down from 9! I'm currently trying to implement the last round of improvements to the pond before selling the house at the end of the year, just in case I find a buyer w...
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:35 am
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: summer and it's effects on readings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 36440
Thanks for that Bob, why did you replace the probe, a matter of maintenance or failure? I'm about to replace my Pinpoint probe as a matter of course, which I do around every 18 months. I may yet decide to get both a Pinpoint and that alternative probe to test against each other. It would be interest...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:31 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: summer and it's effects on readings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 36440
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:16 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: summer and it's effects on readings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 36440
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:42 pm
- Forum: Historic posts read only
- Topic: summer and it's effects on readings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 36440
From what I can see they've been around for years, de-ionisation is not exactly new technology. From what I recall of my early research a few years ago it has it's downside in a koi pond, but the good obviously outweighs the bad. The only way to properly do the job of water purification is RO IMHO. ...