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Glad it's resolved and sorry I missed wishing you good luck before it happened. Hope the outcome was good enough for you long term, whatever it was.

Bob, as Syd has basically said on the BKKS Forum, if you have a high pH, hard water and do plenty of water changes then a small amount of limestone isn't going to make a huge difference.

But the limestone Will slowly dissolve so bear that in mind.

Limestone will raise the pH of your water and your TDS. I'd want to use something that is neutral so it doesn't affect your water chemistry.

Well that's hopeful. I hope he feels better after a bit of a break.

I've got to agree with all the others. The ultrazone is somewhere we can really enjoy decent debates and information and i hope you reconsider.

They'll definitely spawn when nisai as we had some at Maurice's spawning on the April open day that had been spawned May, June or July 2009 so were between 20 to 23 months old.

No worries Bob, just wasn't sure if you'd seen them. Tom, the plan was to take water from the surface at the shallow end and return the water to the bottom of the shallow end. Water would then flow down along the bottom of the pond towards the deep end waste pipes, rise up the wall at the deep end a...

i think its a Matsukawabake a scaled Kumonryu or dragon fish dunc Sorry to disagree Duncan but the Sumi's wrong for a matsukawabake in my opinion. Maurice has bred a fair few nice matsus and they have a look more like shiros with submerged or emerging Sumi than this fish which has a pretty even rob...

Bob, The 30,000lph Lifetech Pipe pump "realistically" delivers 5600gph over a shower (I know i measured it) this is using 4" spraybar and only 1 x 90deg bend. So you should be able to feed the chamber using two 4" side drains. Sounds good Greg Need to put the pump 'somewhere' wh...

Ed, thats a serious amount of water but i have to confess im struggling to see how this system actually works, the way it looks to me is the output from the showers get put back in at the deep end and the water is extracted from the shallow end over a wier? i suspect the devil is in the detail and ...

Bob I've seen a design in the states with very fast water flow that had a flat bottom so wouldn't say the degree of slope is crucial. Duncan my design had 5,500gph going over the shower split between 4 outlets to generate the flow. The flow would vary within the pond obviously but as long as i got a...

greg wrote:Louie,

Yep "final answer" - Kage Shiro Utsuri - at least IMO.

Agree with that too. Seen some nice pics of some Kage Hi Utsuri at one Japanese farm too.

hi Ed thanks for that i did this in my garage around 11 years ago back then we called them a rill water went in one end and out the other its was the full lengh of the garage around 2'x2' its gone now to make way for my car what were the dimensions going to be? dunc The pond's still happening, just...

Nice design Ed, for Me and from what I have seen I would change the shower return to using the shower in a more conventional way, sited on the end pond wall and have the water return via the wier of the shower. The wall would need to be buit up and have lower side wall feeds to your pump chamber. T...

Here are the plans for my pond when I was going to do a streamflow design. http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p169/edseeley/ElthamRoadGardenandpond-PondSideview.jpg http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p169/edseeley/ElthamRoadGardenandpond-GardenPlanView.jpg http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p169/eds...