Simply Koi and More Koi

Would think the run-up will be okay, but getting back could be an absolute nightmare ---- with lots of businesses shutting early afternoon and everyone making a run for it. Oh, well we'll have to run the gauntlet!

I am coming from Brighton way, anticlockwise round M25, to M1.

Tom

Broke news to wife yesterday... still alive... so I'm in Regards, Tom

OK, I'm in. But if you don't hear from me again, you know what happened.... wife: "so you won't go to my sister's over christmas (too far, no sky, screaming baby), and now you are disappearing off to look at koi just before christmas?"... my head: bang... oops... I may have to think of som...

Bob

Am "negotiating" ! I am in a little "trouble" over Christmas... I have rebelled against the wife's plans. Will advise shortly!

Tom

Gazza

I'll have to check tomorrow - I haven't looked too closely recently... dark in mornings, dark in evenings... see the koi eating, pH OK, checks done!

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Tom

Stuart Mine is very similar to Gazza's. I think it's a 50 liter bin (from B&Q). The lid is a washing up bowl (also B&Q). I cut an exit hole at the front rather than exists underneath. Inside I have put a piece of filter grid fixed just above the exit. BHM in use in mine too. Aquamax 5000 pus...

I don't think many of the block build club flush the settlement chamber that often. Most vac the floor once a week or even less frequently. I believe the theory is that the muck is spread over a large area and has much less probability of going anerobic. Don't have one so can only state what I have ...

OK, to possibly provoke a little debate, one of my showa... picture is about 2 years old...

Dave The alternative is to increase the surface area of the exit. How? 1/ Source about 12 inches of 2" pipe (or similar size). 2/ Terminate/seal one end. 3/ Drill 2" hole (using appropriate drill bit available from DIY stores) into your current exit (i.e. in the middle of the plate you hav...

Dave

As a quick experiment, shove an airstone under the transfer port (to push the K1 away) and see if the other bays return to their normal levels.

Tom

My best move ever on fines was to completely fill the last chamber with solid jap matting. No gaps and no air. (Before that chamber I have static K1 - airated K1 - and airated, submerged BHM). Since doing that my water is v v clear. As recommended by those who subscribe to the block-built filter met...