Simply Koi and More Koi

Koimod, dealer had experienced a similar problem himself and it worked for him, seemed a simple fix to me thats all. Mine doesn't have any blockage, I did find that raising the air tube slightly in the affected area did enable it to start bubbling so maybe it's not quite level. Never checked that as...

Michaelb wrote:how do you connect your air tube to the boot ?

I don't really know what you mean by that Mike. My 200 has an air tube that I just connect to my air pump using a plastic connector. The boots on mine are for connecting 2" and 4" water pipe to the filter.

Michael, taking media out isn't going to make any difference if the air tube isn't bubbling all the way round which is what I think is happening, my 200 is the same. Try reaching down to the tube if you can and feel round for the holes and I bet you are going to find that there's no air coming out w...

I have a similar problem with my 200 in that the K1 doesn't bubble on one side even though the air pump output is above the minimum spec required. I have spoken to a dealer for advice and his opinion is that EA may have made too many holes in the air pipe so that all the air escapes from the holes n...

Thanks B Scott. Have decided to press the Nexus into service, so the next decision is how best to do it. I have a 2" BD into the integrated filter then 1.5" pipes from the pump back to the tank. Ideally I want to gravity feed the Nexus from the integrated filter so the water has passed thr...

I moved house a few months ago and have my few small fish in a Shoreham Fibreglass tank ~ 450 gallons currently just running their standard integrated filter box which is mostly jap matting. I am a bit concerned that this isn't going to be sufficient until the pond eventually gets built (probably ne...

Having now found digital nitrite test meters, I will rephrase my question.... Does anyone know of a digital nitrite test meter that doesn't cost a small fortune? Her indoors isn't going to let me remortgage the house to buy one of those Hanna ones, so it looks like I will have to continue messing ar...

Being a bit of a gadget boy and getting fed up with counting drips of reagent into my nitrite test kit's test tube, does anyone know if there is any sort of meter for testing? I have meters for temperature, pH & TDS, and having looked around on the internet so far I haven't seen anything for nit...

Just seen this thread and I'd like to add my own comments. First of all, I have been away from the hobby "proper" for quite a few years although I now have some small koi in a big aquarium and will be transferring them to my new fibreglass QT when I move house, hopefully in the next 5 or 6...