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    Hey Ghost,

    I've recently embarked on a pond build and read every post on this thread, amazing work, been a rollercoaster too by the looks of it.

    Love the M, it looks stunning. Are you on M3Cutters? Sure I've seen a member called GHO5T on there before and wondered if it was you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RS2OOO View Post
    Hey Ghost,

    I've recently embarked on a pond build and read every post on this thread, amazing work, been a rollercoaster too by the looks of it.

    Love the M, it looks stunning. Are you on M3Cutters? Sure I've seen a member called GHO5T on there before and wondered if it was you.
    Thanks RS2000

    Finally everything is pretty stable with my pond
    I know how much I can feed etc…levels stay

    How’s your build coming long?

    I am on cutters,not with that name,but not really active just a lurker lol
    I’m a instagram whore and always post on there
    I’m @gh05t_xw


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    Hi Ghost,
    My build isn't going as fast as I hoped. Took a Week off work to make some progress and that was the week it snowed! Temperatures didn't go above freezing so I was unable to pour the footings for the sleepers to sit on.

    I'm making a "simple" sleeper pond, 2 ponds side by side with sleepers between them, like a H shape. This is so I can separate fancy goldfish from Koi. I've kept fancy goldfish all my life but now fancy a koi pond as well.

    The Koi side will be 2.2 metres by 2.4 metres and 4 foot deep (1400 gallons in the Koi section, 300 gallons in the Fancy Goldfish section). Already wishing I went bigger but the concrete is poured now so this should do. Looking to keep around 8 Koi in there and they will all start as Tosai.

    I was thinking 8 Koi might be too much, until I went to a Chinese restaurant and they had 7 very healthy adult Koi in a 4 foot by 15" tank! The largest was around 22 inches and the smallest around 10 inches! Couldn't believe my eyes so asked how long they'd been in there for, and he replied, since 1988 !!

    Once I've made a little more progress I'll do a build thread, but its nothing close to as fancy as yours.

    As mentioned, your car looks stunning and I'd like an M4 next, currently have a rare E46 M3 Silverstone Edition, but don't want to part with it and the garage I built wont fit both the M3 and an M4... Could get away with fitting an M2 in there, but its just not as nice as the M4!

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    Thought I’d drop in
    It’s been a while,everything going well with my pond,got a couple of leaks that need sorting tho
    Sad new pond,starting digging next week :) times just went down to check fish and found one of my favourite ones dead just floating there
    Done a pond test nitrate is fine,ammonia is really high tho,did a test last week no where near as high,currently gets about a 25% water change a week,only had a 10% change last night as well
    Can’t do anything now,we’ll have to dump loads in the morning and get someone round to turn the water off as I’ll be at work



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    Wow! I didn’t realise it’s been this long since I’ve been on here

    my ponds still going ok
    but I’ve still got a leak on my skimmer that’s got a lot worse

    I’ve tried everything apart from patching it with fibreglass
    If I do fibreglass will I have to leave it to cure for a couple of weeks? Or will it be ok to fill back up after it’s gone off?
    as I’m gravity fed, once the water level has dropped to where I need it, I can’t have my pump/filter running

    any advice please

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    Wall Skimmer! 4" second connection.

    I would use a mesh based system for the initial filter. Either a sieve or a drum. They remove the waste from the pond ecosystem rather than keeping it within the water to decompose and this makes the rest of any filter behind it far more efficient and less maintenance.

    A nexus is bulky but given few moving parts it's reliable and could be upgraded - personally I don't like them as they seem to have reports of fines. A sieve and normal DIY filters would probably do just as well.

    A sieve with two 4" inlets and I would be tempted to 4" right through. Then after the pump run 2 or 63mm (2.5"). I'd also use a varipump for this - even if it means getting a 30,000lph and running it at 50% (it would consume less power than an old school pump).

    One option whilst your building is put in a 1.75m deep sump before the pump - you could then use an airlift to power the filter for meagre running costs. A sump the depth of your pond but exiting just under the water level with 4" pipe (it doesn't need to be expensive pipe) could run your entire system on far less wattage than a water pump. I'm planning on a max of 36,000lph on 58W. A 20,000lph pump is 180W for example.

    Here's the pond schematic I'm building - my sump is also my anoxic filter:
    IMG_7919.jpg

    EDIT: lol ignore the post .. I didn't see this started in 2015!
    14000l, my mutts: Chargoi (2010), Doitsu (2022), Tancho (2022), Kujaku (2022), Hi Utusri (2022)

 

 
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