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25-10-2020, 06:33 PM #101Freddyboy the legend
"we are water keepers first"
Johnathan
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25-10-2020, 06:38 PM #102
Hi Slays
Interested to know how the fish got to the pump if you have the Easypod set up gravity fed as the fish would have to go through the wire mesh and K1 to get to the pump - if a fish went down my bottom drain he would be in the outer settlement area and probably wouldn't come to any harm as the bottom drain is 4 inch feed to a 3inch feed into the Eastpod?
KevT
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25-10-2020, 06:43 PM #103
4” bottom feed to Eazy then he flashed out of the outer area into the 3” Eazy outlet.... unfortunately because I got sent a free 2” ball valve I used a two inch pipe to the pump instead of a one & a half inch therefore he got sucked into the pump.... I only realised because there was K1 micro in the pond & the pump was making a funny noise!
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25-10-2020, 06:49 PM #104
Note: Eazy pods are a pretty shit design for the money... I could design one to better keep the K1 micro in & the waste outlet is in the wrong place... hundreds of pounds & the K1 micro can simple go under the mesh when boiling & why not a metal mess on top off the K1 micro!
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25-10-2020, 07:20 PM #105
Hi Slays
Wow that fish was one hell of a Houdini - you did well to find him in the outlet pipe - if you hadn't found him he might have eventually rotted and been minced - this could have caused a break out of bacteria as I have heard of fish that got stuck in pond liner corners and then caused a bacterial outbreak - this is something else for us Easypod owners to keep our eyes open for
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26-10-2020, 12:51 AM #106
Was wondering myself how he got there and his back end damaged . . had to have been sucked in
Rotting fish story . .
lost almost a full aquariums worth of Cichlid over a large Red jewel fish that died and was in a back cave far from the prying eye
water went tinged brownish colour, stunk so cleaned the filter, vacced substrate, water changes over several days, aquarium safe starts and conditioners added,
water tests were fine kept losing fish every day and nothing obviously wrong with them, gasping at the surface yet I had several airstones and surface agitated from water jets.
Finally started stripping the tank and his badly decomposed body floated out, rancid and stunk
day or so later all was fine water colour and smell returned to normal, fish swam well and no more gasping at surfaceLast edited by Wain; 26-10-2020 at 01:01 AM.
1000 gal
2 x Hozelock 6000ltr 9W UV
Allpond Spin Filter 8000 11W UV
Blagdon pond oxy 640 ltr/hr
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27-10-2020, 06:03 AM #107
Sorry to hear of your losses Mate. And you to AJ.
Fred
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14-11-2020, 09:20 PM #108
Move along nothing to report here...
One thing since starting this lark this week is the first week I have had 100% clear water (yes I know most ponds go clear in the winter) but temp is still 14 degrees so well happy.
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18-05-2021, 04:32 PM #109
Update: Nitrite & Phosphate issues
Water testing;
PH 7.5 to 8
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite 0.5 !!!
Phosphate 1.0 !!!
Any suggestions!?
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19-05-2021, 07:15 AM #110
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19-05-2021, 07:24 AM #1112016 new 6000 gallon pond
https://www.koiforum.uk/pond-construc...ghlight=feline
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19-05-2021, 07:31 AM #112
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19-05-2021, 11:02 AM #113
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19-05-2021, 12:01 PM #114
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19-05-2021, 12:59 PM #115
It’s perfectly safe not to feed for a few days, or even a few weeks. Hard to resist the begging faces though, I know
2016 new 6000 gallon pond
https://www.koiforum.uk/pond-construc...ghlight=feline
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19-05-2021, 01:32 PM #116
Even trying plants 🪴
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The Daily pond temp thread
Yep , forecast snow here ! Hoping so more money to be made gritting lol Sent from my SM-S918B...