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Hi Duncan, I have noticed that my Baytril is about to go out of date. I have tried emailing you but I think that it must not be getting through.

Please can I buy some more from you? If you invoice me I will pay straight away.

Thank you, Judy

If you get a surveyor in he may tell you that you can't build your pond there anyway because it is too near to the house

Sorry I can't really help you as I am an uneducted female as far as filters go :? But I do know that you should NOT get a pressurised filter like the Oase one that you mention. I know this because I had one on my first pond and it DID NOT WORK on a koi pond. I got a lot of bacterial problems and I w...

Mine is on my skimmer line, so it is used more for mechanical filtering.

However having said that I had installed it on my old 500 gallon pond before that and it worked great with far too many fish in as well

Having never had an Eazy Pod before, I had been cleaning mine wrongly (not boiling properly), - a friend told me. I had to take some K1 out to get it to "boil" and this was when it was a good 6 months old! Make sure that the water is high enough (just spilling over the 3 overflows) and tak...

Maxine, I felt like you when my coping stones first went on (prefer the wet look!!!!!!)

I now like it the way it is, and they are a good indicator of when it is starting to rain

I have slate coping stones around my pond and nothing is sealed (stones or cement).

I've never had a problem from them.

Not sure what you mean but here's a photo of my SPINDRIFTER

Be interested to know if anyone as experienced a problem in getting a pod to boil...from new mine would not , untill i removed about half a dozen hand fulls of K1 then off it went...it had been filled from new with the supplied 30ltr bag. YES :shock: when I first got my pod (now on my skimmer line)...

Just thought of another positive...................

when you move house you can take it with you

The beauty of a Nexus is its footprint.

I agree that you can make an Eazy of your own much cheaper but then another bay is needed for biological filtering.

If like me you have limited space Nexus are ideal

It has no internal structure, so when it is agitated and bounced about it will squash out of shape.

Plus if there is no internal structure there is less surface area for bactreria to grow on (equivalent amount of K1 will grow more bacteria therefore more efficient)

I think that you have to be careful of these copies. I've read about other people buying similar stuff but it collapses or disintegrates because it is not as robust ( no internal structure and that also means less surface area for bacteria to grow on) I wouldn't risk it go for thre proper stuff it l...

Thanks for the comments guys

All the filter room needs doing Gazza

Today Jeff laid 2 courses of blocks and put the bottom drain valve on, air line valve on and some of the return pipework.

Pictures on KOIVISTA http://www.koivista.com/display_series.php? ... neuron=272

After 2 hard days work by Jeff and Dave Arnold the pond is finished Jeff worked very hard to get the coping stones finished so that Dave could glass today. I just need to treat the coping stones and then fill with water (once the filter room is finished!!!!!!) Lots more pictures on KOIVISTA P S Dave...