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    Just joined and finished the marathon of reading through this epic thread Fred - thank you for sharing the ups and downs. lots of useful ideas and information shared.

    Sorry to hear of your koi's untimely demise, but you could consider that the old warhorse (war-fish?) was with you throughout the journey and lived to enjoy his/her new home with you.

    I have to ask on a different note. Are you singlehandedly responsible for England's brick shortage over the last couple of years? No wonder we aren't building enough new houses ;-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandlin View Post
    Just joined and finished the marathon of reading through this epic thread Fred - thank you for sharing the ups and downs. lots of useful ideas and information shared.

    Sorry to hear of your koi's untimely demise, but you could consider that the old warhorse (war-fish?) was with you throughout the journey and lived to enjoy his/her new home with you.

    I have to ask on a different note. Are you singlehandedly responsible for England's brick shortage over the last couple of years? No wonder we aren't building enough new houses ;-)
    Hello brandlin. Welcome to the forum mate. Glad you enjoyed the read mate. There is some top people on here mate. All with a wealth of nowledge. Plus most importantly. There very friendly.

    What type of pond do you have and what pump filter setup. And what type of fish.

    You must have a lot of patiance to have read all that.

    I put everything down like you say.
    So others can learn.
    Hope you have a good time with us brandlin. Unusal name that. I like it though.
    Anytime i can help. Just do as you have done. Or pm me
    All the best fred

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    hmm apparently i cant post a reply until a moderator has read it? i guess cos i am new and it has a link in it - though its just a link to my intro in the new ponds section of the forum...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brandlin View Post
    Just joined and finished the marathon of reading through this epic thread Fred - thank you for sharing the ups and downs. lots of useful ideas and information shared.

    Sorry to hear of your koi's untimely demise, but you could consider that the old warhorse (war-fish?) was with you throughout the journey and lived to enjoy his/her new home with you.

    I have to ask on a different note. Are you singlehandedly responsible for England's brick shortage over the last couple of years? No wonder we aren't building enough new houses ;-)
    Sorry missed this bit out brandlin
    On the bricks. Yeah a lot of bricks mate.
    Why we did the walls and filter house. As well in brick. Was because if you sit in my conservatory. You can see it all blends in. The same bricks. I visioned it with a wooden fence. And wooden filter house. And it would nt have looked right. So the deal was less houses built. And more walls for me. Haha
    Fred

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    I think there getting stricter now. And making sure your sound and ok.
    As the site has had a couple of arse
    Holes playing games
    All the best fred
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    hmm apparently i cant post a reply until a moderator has read it? i guess cos i am new and it has a link in it - though its just a link to my intro in the new ponds section of the forum...
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    Was intrigued to find out where the bacteria had come from. That did my showa in. And damaged my chag
    So i went investigating.

    Checked nexus clean.
    Checked upper pond. Clean.

    Checked plant baskets clean.

    Scratching my bald napper now.
    Mmmmmmmmm

    Only thing left is the skimmer.
    So did some tests on flow from the back chamber of ultra sieve which is gravity.
    Scratching napper now. How to do this. I need a flush like bottom drain.
    So i got my vacume out. Shut all ball valves. And sucked water out chamber and as much out of 4 inch pipe as i could.

    Then open ball valve 4 inch. And it came in far to slow.

    Did it 4 more times then the crap started to come out. And flow got faster and faster. Cracked it.thats where it was.

    The moral of the story is this. We all talk about flushing bottom drain.
    But don t mention skimmers and such.
    Another mistake by myself.
    Every sunday now for me.
    Hope this helps other people
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    Good spot that fred freds new pond build sorry to hear about your showa mate, hopefully the big chag will be fine freds new pond build



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    Cheers lee. The chags ok mate. He is skinning over now. From where i pulled the two scales and topical treated him. Plus salt for a week in qt grow on.

    The place the crap was at was in the pipe work. So be flushing that once a
    Week now.

    Learnt the scaling of you mate. Good teacher.
    Hope the family is well bud.
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    Good spot that fred freds new pond build sorry to hear about your showa mate, hopefully the big chag will be fine freds new pond build



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    Teaching grandson 2 year old how to net fish. My chag
    Notice his own little net bless him.
    And a doitsu for scrapes. Been in qt and grow on. Both in the pond clean and eating. jobs a good un.
    Grandson loves the fish.
    Drags me out no matter what the weather. Teach them young.
    Love iiiiiit.


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    Thought you had chopped little one's head off in the first photo Fred, but then you stuck it back on in the second one, so every
    things now. See the main man just managed to creep in on the last photo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anne View Post
    Thought you had chopped little one's head off in the first photo Fred, but then you stuck it back on in the second one, so every
    things now. See the main man just managed to creep in on the last photo.
    Cheers ann. Yeah he is a little belter
    Good spot never noticed his head in photo missing haha. You good anne. Have a great weekend

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    Best times in the world e family and fish

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    Best times in the world e family and fish

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    Nice one pal. Your not wrong there


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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Teaching grandson 2 year old how to net fish. My chag
    Notice his own little net bless him.
    And a doitsu for scrapes. Been in qt and grow on. Both in the pond clean and eating. jobs a good un.
    Grandson loves the fish.
    Drags me out no matter what the weather. Teach them young.
    Love iiiiiit.


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    too close to the stone floor for my comfort with out a thick layer of padding, or a water container should it flick its muscles and catch you off guard
    the slow pond build thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowsaw View Post
    too close to the stone floor for my comfort with out a thick layer of padding, or a water container should it flick its muscles and catch you off guard
    It went in undamaged. Thanks for advice.

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    Changed my pump from an 8000lph
    To a 15000lph.
    The moral of the story is this.
    My water hight in pond went 2inch higher.
    So it altered my skimmer draw on flow.
    Plus it was right at top of my infinity window.
    It takes about 6 hours to gain the 2 inches.

    Righting the wrong. I played with the ball valve all week. That did nt work.

    Then i was sat reading and watching my fish. Out of conservatory. And i could nt hear sound of my trickle out. In the drain.
    Only when the drum flushed to waste.
    So went and checked my waste chute in the drum. For those who don t know. My drum is set off for pond water height. On a draco. In a nexus.

    Yes there was the problem.
    Lucky enough i had one more hole left on my brackets. Dropped it. And bingo its back to normal

    No way would i have thought that.
    So the trickle was topping pond higher. Because of changing to a larger pump.
    Now been reset for 30 hours and pond level has stayed the same.
    Get in there.
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    Glad you got it sorted Fred youll get a good flow with the 15000.
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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Glad you got it sorted Fred youll get a good flow with the 15000.
    Cheers john hopefully 11000 to 12000lph . I reckon i was doing 5000 to 6000lph.
    On my 8000lph pump. With friction loss head height and pipe run.

    So hopefully double it.
    Took some working the water level out though.

    You due home soon. All tanned up.
    My mrs is in for hip replacement.
    So while she is in hospital.
    Going to be ripping bedroom out.
    All new.
    Plus upstairs bathroom. Gutting it.
    Replace floor the lot.
    So going to be very busy.
    Supervising my 4 lads. And inlaws.
    Haha. I have already gutted the 2 back bedrooms on my own.
    So done my bit haha. I don t drink now. But i bet i do start again when that lot are here haha.
    Have a good un mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freddyboy View Post
    Cheers john hopefully 11000 to 12000lph . I reckon i was doing 5000 to 6000lph.
    On my 8000lph pump. With friction loss head height and pipe run.

    So hopefully double it.
    Took some working the water level out though.

    You due home soon. All tanned up.
    My mrs is in for hip replacement.
    So while she is in hospital.
    Going to be ripping bedroom out.
    All new.
    Plus upstairs bathroom. Gutting it.
    Replace floor the lot.
    So going to be very busy.
    Supervising my 4 lads. And inlaws.
    Haha. I have already gutted the 2 back bedrooms on my own.
    So done my bit haha. I don t drink now. But i bet i do start again when that lot are here haha.
    Have a good un mate.

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    Busy man . Good luck for the Mrs mate she made you a load a meals and put them in freezer ready for you haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    Busy man . Good luck for the Mrs mate she made you a load a meals and put them in freezer ready for you haha

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    cheers mate. yeah gonna get busy. already used 2 x skips. reckon we will need two more. got to get the wall paper off to see if it needs re - plastering.
    getting the bathroom plastered so might as well get the bedrooms done as well. 4 bed rooms to do and bath room. hope to do it all in a week

    my boys reckon it can be done. so who am i to argue. ones a builder anyway so lets see.

    thanks about the mrs. she is very proud. bought her one of them reclining chairs for invalids. that stand you up from laying down. she was not to pleased.
    specialist advised me to get her one.

    but i caught her having a sly go last night from laying down to standing her up haha. there bloody good mind. if she don t want it after she has healed.
    i will have it. fall asleep in that no problem. she will probably be chasing me around the garden in a month or two with a base ball bat. knowing her. haha

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