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Hello I have 4 fish that are flashing beyond there normal behaviour, I will scrap & scope Thursday. I'm after your help putting together a fish treatment kit for myself, I dont require instruments, just the topicals that should be in every tool kit, its been a two years since I last sedated and ...

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Manky Thanks for the words of support. The filters work very well, the fish rarely need netting and heal well, You're right an upgrade or change is not required, I have not tinkered with the pond in almost 3 years and all is well, yes I know, leave well alone. At the start of this season I held back...

Afternoon Its tinkering time again and I'm would like to increase or change my filter. My pond is a circular 6ft x 3ft 550gallons, water is pulled from a 2" bottom drain using a superfish 8000 to a compact sieve into a large 3ft x 3ft circular chamber with 12" brushes suspended high in the...

Hello all My set up: 550 gallon round pond in ground, with 2" bottom drain to pump to above ground filter, compact sieve to a large deep brush to deep moving K1 chambers back to pond. I have a superfish 8000 attached to the bottom drain that sits 1 foot below water level, what I want to do is m...

I am going to upgrade my water pump, how should I store the superfish pump I remove?

Thanks

Russ

Has anyone used one of these types of vat/pond before?

http://denbykoiponds.co.uk/ponds/13-400-gallon.html

Manky

you answered a post about bacteria and flow rate, thanks for the detailed reply.

It would only be a bit bigger, I may end up getting the old brick trowel back out.

I'm after a pond builder in the Midlands area, who do you recommend?

Thanks

We talk about the nitrogen cycle and how it works and the bacteria involved, and we talk about filter dwell times and water flow rates through the filter and over the many types of filter media to house the good bacteria. To my question: In a mature filer system how efficient are the bacteria involv...

Thanks for the reply lad.

My pump is a Superfish 8000, the pump has a 1.5 inch intake and a 1.5 outlet that's run on 2 inch pipe to filters, I'm pumping up about five foot, that being pump outlet to filter inlet, a run of 7 meters.

Would this run benefit from an increase in pipe size to 3 inches ?

Thanks
Russ

For those with or have had a K1 moving filter did you, for winter preparation or during winter alter the amount of air flow to the chamber, leave it the same all year round, use the water going into the chamber to stir the K1 over winter. What do you do ? Me I keep the air flow the same and never re...

Thanks Duncan.

Manky

Thank you for that lad.

Very interesting.