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Remember last year when I converted my Vortex to a big Easy? Well it's about to get ripped out along with a few walls.

It doesnt like the throughput of 5000+ gallons/hour and the grid gets blocked under the K1. This occurs with blanket weed and is a real pain and has been for a few weeks now. The K1 can also block if left for more than 3-4 days in the Summer.

[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN2896.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN2897.JPG[/img]

The drilling of those 4 x 6" holes and fitting of the new cone etc.
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN2474.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN2491.JPG[/img]


The area you can see here is to be totally knocked out and made into a large settlement area.

[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3561.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3565.JPG[/img]

The blue line walls will be coming out
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... ent%AD.JPG[/img]

Got a few strong boys coming along on Saturday
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Post by GERRY5 »

bob.....

you cant keep a good man down :?: :?: im sure we will get a few piccys of the crew in progress ...good luck saturday :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
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Post by macaws fly »

Settlement chamber? and i thought you were a "technology person"

so Bob are you shying away from technology and going back to the good old fashioned way of filtering water?
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are you making this settlement chamber with a difference?

Question:- how will the flushing of such a large volume of water effect your water perameters?
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Post by Gazza »

Looks like Ill be in that hole again :roll: :wink:

I am sure it will all be managed correctly from the patio seating area with a man with a large stick :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Well over the past 12-years of this pond I've had many ways of getting the solids out. All have worked with limitations, so I'm onto the next option.

What I'm going to do is what the ****** boys do. A large flat bottomed settlement chamber. To clean it will mean hoovering, but I will be building a hoover pipe into the wall, with the pump back in the shed permanently plumbed in.

I'll be monitoring parameters as always and be interesting to see if ORP goes up. Some of the ****** boys dont hoover for a couple of months, but none of them seem to monitor water parameters either. Still they have healthy Koi, so something must work. Many of them chuck in loads of clay, not something I'm aiming to do.

Pictures at the weekend of the crew at work!!!!
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Post by Gazza »

Bob,

Do you think you will ever have the pond 100% or is it we just like playing too much :D
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I could do with having a year off mate!!!!! So hopefully this will work and next year I can retire from re-building it.
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Post by macaws fly »

so youll be building a special "Bobbed hoover head" for the filter bay.
a nice slotted piece of pipe that spans across the filter bay with a connector for your vacuum glued in the middle. add to this a nice little remote for the on/off switch. a click on the remote and one pass across the filter and your done.
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Post by Bob Hart »

Yeah automatically motor driven hoover, that sounds good! Dont think my chamber is quite the right shape for that, but another thought to store - thanks
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Post by macaws fly »

no, not motor driven... hand driven but a hoover head that fits nicely across the bottom of the filter bay. you just would turn it on at one end and slide it slowly to the other end and then turn it off. least disturbance to the matter settled on the bottom.
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Post by Bob Hart »

Been a very busy day today, but a lot accomplished.

Firstly my thanks to Gazza, Des, Justin, Danny and Shaun, who all gave up a day of their own time to assist me with another project.

Still a bit for me to do as the pictures will show.

This was what we started with
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3953.JPG[/img]

Gazza grinding off some of the fibreglass
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3960.JPG[/img]

Des, Shaun Danny and Justin hard at it
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Gazza performing an operation!
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3963.JPG[/img]

Another block successfully removed!
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3966.JPG[/img]

At the end of the day this is what the 'hole' now looks like
[img]http://www.koipix.com/gallery/albums/userpi ... CN3970.JPG[/img]
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Post by andyb »

Hi Bob ( and the team :D )

Bet you guys had a great day.

Good luck with the project.

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Post by JohnC »

I suppose the fish are getting used to the yearly clatter of the demolition hammer then Bob? :lol: Regards JohnC.
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Post by Glenn »

Lots of activity but where's bob, making the tea. Nice to see Gazza working, must be a rarity but will he last the day,

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Post by Gazza »

Great day with lots of fun....hounest :lol:

It seemed like we was getting nowhere for ages and we couldn't believe how hard they mad these old pond 12 years ago :roll: :wink:
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