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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    Wow beautiful that mate really shines

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    here's a grown up one from the same breeder...
    if it ends up half as good i'll be over the moon





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    Am not jealous at all ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    Am not jealous at all ......

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    it's my first new fish in nearly 2 years!

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    Good to see your still tinkering Dave, and must say everything is looking top notch mate.

    Love the Gin Chag, plenty of bling on that Dave.

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    Beautiful chag that Dave,will really glisten in your pond which is what you want.
    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve's koi View Post
    Good to see your still tinkering Dave, and must say everything is looking top notch mate.

    Love the Gin Chag, plenty of bling on that Dave.
    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Beautiful chag that Dave,will really glisten in your pond which is what you want.
    cheers lads
    she's a little character already...always first to the fish flap for food

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    I have seen a few nice gin chags however i have not seen one so defined, i can see why you chose her, super sparkly and bright very nice fish Dave we need a video of her in her new posh home
    2200 gallons,infinity window,
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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    here's a grown up one from the same breeder...
    if it ends up half as good i'll be over the moon




    Wow..... thats gorgeous.
    2200 gallons,infinity window,
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    Quote Originally Posted by smartin View Post
    I have seen a few nice gin chags however i have not seen one so defined, i can see why you chose her, super sparkly and bright very nice fish Dave we need a video of her in her new posh home
    thanks mate
    she was 1 of a group of 5, that were bought in japan in december that were 'first come first served' once finished quarantine.
    another lad and I had bought and reserved one.

    I got second choice.
    there were 2 much lighter coloured ones, one of which went to guy who had first dibs.


    and the one i chose had the bigger female frame of the darker coloured ones.
    which is exactly what i wanted.
    so we both got the fish we wanted in the end
    the 3 that were left were snapped up on the spot by other people in the shop....

    in pond pics will have to wait until the covers are off.... it's flipping cold out there lol!

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartin View Post
    Wow..... thats gorgeous.
    one of Frank's fish from youtube 'the koi channel'
    i agree.... it's a stunner

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    I've been running RO water into the pond for the last 2 weeks, and recycle RO since last week.
    50/50 with straight dechlorinated water. 600ml/min each.

    my PH has been steadily falling started at 7.6 was at 7.4 last week and is now at 7.3
    with a KH starting at 5 and is now 3
    the TDS was 258 and is now 171
    and nitrate is down from 10ppm to 5ppm.

    everything looks good, the fish seem very happy.
    but i'm doing KH tests every single day.
    i'm not taking any chances regardless of what my PH monitor says.
    even though it has been running for 2 years now and has been spot on everytime.

    i'll see how it goes,
    but i'll either slow the recycle RO timer down, up the dechlorinated water in, or dose sodium bicarbonate.
    to stablise it at a KH of 3.

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    Cracking GR chag there Dave

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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    I've been running RO water into the pond for the last 2 weeks, and recycle RO since last week.
    50/50 with straight dechlorinated water. 600ml/min each.

    my PH has been steadily falling started at 7.6 was at 7.4 last week and is now at 7.3
    with a KH starting at 5 and is now 3
    the TDS was 258 and is now 171
    and nitrate is down from 10ppm to 5ppm.

    everything looks good, the fish seem very happy.
    but i'm doing KH tests every single day.
    i'm not taking any chances regardless of what my PH monitor says.
    even though it has been running for 2 years now and has been spot on everytime.

    i'll see how it goes,
    but i'll either slow the recycle RO timer down, up the dechlorinated water in, or dose sodium bicarbonate.
    to stablise it at a KH of 3.

    Sounds great Dave, I have not got a scooby doo what your talking about though
    2200 gallons,infinity window,
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    Thanks sam,
    Just needs to get bigger now...

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartin View Post
    Sounds great Dave, I have not got a scooby doo what your talking about though
    And thats fair enough mate

    Running RO isnt a simple plug and play thing...
    Mike at queni has reported 3 high end ponds in the last couple of months that have had a ph crash and wipeouts due to running RO and relying on readings from blue guardian monitors.

    If its done, basics must be observed.
    It takes me less than a minute to check my KH with an Api kit when i go into my filterhouse of a morning...

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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    Thanks sam,
    Just needs to get bigger now...

    I'm sure you'll have no problems with that, maybe start cranking the heat up now, 24 by the beginning of Feb for a nice long growing season

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    Quote Originally Posted by samp09 View Post
    I'm sure you'll have no problems with that, maybe start cranking the heat up now, 24 by the beginning of Feb for a nice long growing season
    nope.

    once my other fish has cleared QT and i've collected it, i'll be dropping it back down to 12°C

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    Quote Originally Posted by davethefish1 View Post
    nope.

    once my other fish has cleared QT and i've collected it, i'll be dropping it back down to 12°C
    Give them a bit of a rest then Dave.

    This Ro your doing, is it to reduce your kh then?

    So low kh softer water, I have to keep my kh up as its allways low, funny world Dave.

    I dont know if softer water is beneficial to koi as I havnt had any different.
    John

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    I'd be interested aswell mate am same as you with kh

    I thought RO was for the TDS value and that the kh was a by product?

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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Give them a bit of a rest then Dave.

    This Ro your doing, is it to reduce your kh then?

    So low kh softer water, I have to keep my kh up as its allways low, funny world Dave.

    I dont know if softer water is beneficial to koi as I havnt had any different.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ajm View Post
    I'd be interested aswell mate am same as you with kh

    I thought RO was for the TDS value and that the kh was a by product?

    Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

    The RO is just to purify and clean the water, it will take out so many bad things and return pure water to the pond.
    it also triple concentrates the water thats removed so removes three times more nitrate, than trickle in/out alone.

    also things like nitrate, sodium, chloride, copper, chromium, and lead; reduce arsenic, fluoride, radium, sulfate, potassium, nitrate, and phosphate.
    a lot of the things in tapwater that carbon doesn't remove very well, or at all.
    plus pheromones that koi emit that can restrict growth.

    i'm not looking to run a low KH and may buffer it up if needed.
    my tap water is usually high in KH at around 8
    but recently has been dropping occasionally to nearly 0 for a day, then jumping back up again.
    probably a winter water source thing...?

    they say softer water helps prevent shimmies and encourages beni,
    but i've seen good koi in hard water as well, so who knows...?

    Mike Snaden was the main proponent of low TDS,
    basing it on the low TDS of mud ponds he tested in japan.
    for me it's just an indicator of how much the pond has in the way of contaminants.
    as not all TDS is carbonates....

    that's where a few people have lost tens of thousands of pounds of koi recently in ph crashes,
    relying on blue guardian monitors TDS readings as a reference for KH.
    TDS can be any solid dissolved in water including nitrogen wastes like nitrate.

    it's simple really, if you run RO you need to regularly manually test water for KH.
    i do a test every morning takes 60 seconds as i leave the dropper and vial out ready.
    but it won't go from 3 to 0 over night so once you are stable you can skip to once every other day or so.
    people who have had a crash probably haven't tested in a week, and then some thing went wrong with automated KH dosing, or the water trickle in KH changed.
    Last edited by davethefish1; 25-01-2022 at 11:53 AM.

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