Home Made K1 Multibay

emmaandaj · Post by **emmaandaj** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:55 pm

Hi All,

My mother in law is babysitting my fish while we move house, i have currently got three box filters on the pond which are clogging up constantly. My poor mother in law is cleaning the filters. So i thought id have ago at building a k1 style filter to save her getting wet whilst cleaning the filter. The filter has 25 litres of k1 in each chamber and is run off a hi blow style 70litre air pump.

Cheers Andy

fisherman · Post by **fisherman** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:04 pm

Hi andy

dont they fall the way they are in your Pic

pete

GERRY5 · Post by **GERRY5** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:08 pm

pete ..that aint andy thats paul daniels

andy ...seriously mate nice lot of bio bubbling away

emmaandaj · Post by **emmaandaj** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:54 pm

Hi Pete,

Must learn how to put pics on properly! Have attached pic of static chamber.
[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/vippy ... pbadge.jpg[/img]Andy

fisherman · Post by **fisherman** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:08 pm

Hi Andy

ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s better we all had to learn thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Gerry and me taking the water it works and a good idea we have to strive to improve the water our quality

Pete

Gazza · Post by **Gazza** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:44 pm

See how easy it is Andy to make a filter and K1 is the stuff

GERRY5 · Post by **GERRY5** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:02 pm

welcome to the blue peter club....silver medal ....job well done

James Pond · Post by **James Pond** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:42 pm

Great stuff, as Gazza said it's so easy to make your own K1 chambers and there are so many different ways of doing it. I have 150lts of K1 both fluid, static and some in a shower, it's great stuff and so easy to clean!

Your DIY job is also neater than mine!

emmaandaj · Post by **emmaandaj** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:59 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the blue peter badge! Im really impressed with how it works-k1 is great stuff, the biological stage looks like its maturing nicely-turning a light tan colour and is slightly less bouyant! Gazza you were right its easy once you get going-want to make another one now! K1 gets bloody everywhere though!

Andy

KOIBOY-greggharris · Post by **KOIBOY-greggharris** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:26 pm

it looks excellent
i'd rather buy one of those than any other multibay system
looks very pro.

James Pond · Post by **James Pond** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:57 pm

emmaandaj wrote:Hi,

Thanks for the blue peter badge! Im really impressed with how it works-k1 is great stuff, the biological stage looks like its maturing nicely-turning a light tan colour and is slightly less bouyant! Gazza you were right its easy once you get going-want to make another one now! K1 gets blooming everywhere though!

Andy

Nothing will convince me that K1 isn't alive

I keep finding bits of it all over the garden, even in places where i've been nowhere near with it!

Big John · Post by **Big John** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:56 pm

How does this one work? Any chance of a half-decent sketch?

emmaandaj · Post by **emmaandaj** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:05 pm

Hi John,

Will try and sort out a quick sketch for you.

Cheers Andy

emmaandaj · Post by **emmaandaj** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:49 pm

Hi John,

Cab't post it on as dont know how to resize a word document, if you let me know your email address il email it accross,

Cheers Andy

Big John · Post by **Big John** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:48 pm

Andy's multibay...

[img]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/sludg ... ilters.jpg[/img]

Cheers Andy.