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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazkoi View Post
    Hi mate,

    Unfortunately this is the crap part of the hobby (along with spending loads of money, stressing constantly over them and becoming addicted to buying). We all lose Koi from time to time no matter how experienced or how expensive the setup or koi may have been. The main thing is wherever possible learn why we lost and adapt accordingly to prevent recurrence.

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    I've just lost one and as always its one of my favourites. No parasites water spot on all I can put it down to is a small scrape on its head so thinking its jumped and hit the cover bloody silly sausage of a fish
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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevT View Post
    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
    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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    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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    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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    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 surface
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    Blagdon pond oxy 640 ltr/hr

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    Sorry to hear of your losses Mate. And you to AJ.
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    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Slays View Post
    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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    Quick answer is WATER CHANGES ASAP - Phosphate I wouldn't worry about mine is always 2... Do you have Nitrate readings too to help see if Bio is working okay ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slays View Post
    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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    Stop feeding and do some daily water changes to get the nitrite down to safe levels. It could be your filter has not got up to speed yet this spring. Do you have any bio other than the Pod? They have a very small amount of bio really for what they claim to be able to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Feline View Post
    Stop feeding and do some daily water changes to get the nitrite down to safe levels. It could be your filter has not got up to speed yet this spring. Do you have any bio other than the Pod? They have a very small amount of bio really for what they claim to be able to do.
    Oh yes stop feeding that was the other bit I was meant to say - damn amateur's

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    Quote Originally Posted by dbs View Post
    Oh yes stop feeding that was the other bit I was meant to say - damn amateur's
    I’m already doing daily water changes & feel I feed quite low levels as never see leftovers…. How long is it safe to not feed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slays View Post
    I’m already doing daily water changes & feel I feed quite low levels as never see leftovers…. How long is it safe to not feed?
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    Until you get on top of the Nitrite, it could hopefully dip down relatively quick with the water changes.

    As Feline asked, do you have any other Bio to keep on top of levels once under control, or do you have capacity to increase bio ??

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    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

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    Even trying plants 🪴


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