Simply Koi and More Koi

Brilliant thread John, I applaud your ingenuity. I think you should go for the water butt (or bin / boxes) on the end of your pressure fed filter. No harm in dropping your water through any additional filtration. I am currently in negotiations with my wife about skimmer line filtration options. I w...

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The camera has spent the night in the airing cupboard & it now turns on & takes pictures :D Unfortunately, the viewscreen looks all smeared inside the camera & pictures come out a bit misty :cry: Anyway, 'phoned my insurance & they are getting Jessops to contact me. It'll cost me ÂÂ...

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Well, I was just taking some more pics of my babies basking in the evening sun. I've just discovered that pondweed acts as a buoyancy aid to expensive digital cameras

My thoughts exactly. I mean, it's not as though I'm daft enough to start sucking water up using an electric pump designed only for air is it? Just need to find a schematic to see which parts I can scavenge :D I have to agree though, if the design is sooooo good with tiny bits of fluff etc then surel...

Ahhhh, I c now.

I've just had another brainstorm. I've got a Dyson DC01 vac which I'm not using
Wondering if I can BP this into some sort of filter

Just been watching my fish basking in amongst the weed & I'm amazed at how clear my water now looks - nothing in suspension - not bad after 16 hours through the trickle tower :D With regards to the hard water, a chap down the road works at Hozelock & he told me that all their tanks are fille...

Y'know, I'm getting really tempted to grab a water butt, stand a grid off the bottom (above the outlet), chuck all my media in & feed it out of the pressure filter at whatever speed it comes out at. Not sure if I should leave my current setup running for a while though to see what effect it has ...

I thought that the idea of a trickle tower was to put a gentle flow of water over the surface of the media to allow the good bacteria time to act?
So what you're saying is that I can have the same system fed from my main pump?

Looks interesting.
Trouble is that my main pump is 4000lph, wouldn't that wash all the good bacteria off?

ok, so I found a bigger bucket (with a cracked bottom) and a smaller pump - 1650lph. The smaller pump had fittings on it for a fountain - the tube was just the right size for Wickes blue pipe system. Managed to find an adaptor to utilise the pushfit pipes - only 15mm though. [img]http://i32.photobuc...

And me in my 'cossie'
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C'mon ladies, form an orderly queue, no pushing, one at a time please

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I think I could use a deeper & wider bucket at the top for markII & maybe I'll ditch the white pipe & feed my pump hose through the side of the mesh & up through the media.

Oh wow - they look as though they are floating in mid-air.
Cool