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Great project. Great build. Great thread. Just read it all from start to finish. Love it. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Nice one stay safe mate. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Love the pond mate and the turtles. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Nice one mate. Done a good job there lol. That's how I started 28 years ago. With a hole in the ground. And a liner. Then the bug. Really got hold of me. Enjoy the pond and fish mate. Now I am retired it is a great hobby. Fish keeping. Or should I say. Water keeper. Love it. Fred Sent from my...

Your right mort. I cover in winter. Only because of the koi. There immune system gets affected from 4c downwards. They stop swimming from about 5c. And just sit on the bottom of the pond. And end up with ulcers. Since covering 3 years ago. No problems Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hello mate. Because of the koi in my pond I cover the pond. With a thermal cover. Last year it stayed between 8c and 12c last winter. And winter before. So they got fed nearly all winter. I feed wheatgerm food. In winter. And I never turn pumps. UVs filters and air off. I run them all year. Fred...

Hello mate you away or home. I have been on here a while now. Only come on now and again. Some good people on here. Good for plant and aquarium info. Learnt a lot of these guys. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

When I built my pond. I took the tree away. For a new summer house. And pond. If it was me. In keeping the tree. I would concrete a base in. And use brickwork around the sides. Backfill the blocks. And put a liner in that. And go from there. A bit more expensive. But piece of mind. I agree with...

anytime mate 👍

Hello mate. I use coppens OSW from October to april. Less proteins on fish digestive system. But you can feed all year round with most fish. Tempreture 8c and above. My Rudd orfs tench 1 goldfish and 40 koi eat this...

I use these type of baskets and all I use is pebbles. And the pond nutrients do the rest Iris Lilly's and dutch rush . As mort said just wedge them in and pour a layer of pebbles Over the top of the roots. Link...

In my top pond. I grow lillys in grilled baskets. And iris in these but a lot larger. And all I have ever used is pebbles. And they grow well. With the nutrients out of the water. Link...

I use if I buy liquid. Nt labs.1 liter bottle s. It has a measuring cap 5ml 10ml 15ml 20ml. 10ml is around 9 gallons of water. If I use Crystal's I use . Kusuri pp. Then I have to use scales. To measure for my 5000 gallon pond if treating. My fish or plants. I have just bought a different...

Hi mate. I use 10ml of pp for plants to 8 gallons of water. I also use same amount for my koi dips. To kill parasites I do 15 minute dip for fish and the same for plants. Then a good rinse. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Sounds good mate. Any links or videos. The only way I knew of apart from bricks and mortar. Fiber glass. Obviously liners as well. Was wood then fiber glass. Like how my Qt grow on is built. Love to see other ways. Mate. In your research. Is it strong enough to hold say 3000 gallons. I googled...

Looks good. Looking at them photos. Makes my imagination kick in. With a massive pond. You have a nice garden mate. Enjoy the pond. Great hobby. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Looks good mate. The length of your garden . Massive. I would have had a lake with sharks in lol. [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji16] Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Looks good mate. A lot of effort gone into that. I like it a lot. When you put your liner in. Try and get as many creases out as you can. They hide bad bacteria for the fish. Buy yourself a pond vac. For debris that falls to the bottom. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

My two ochibas arrived yesterday.there going into the qt grow on for a year. Japanese koi. Also top pond plants are thriving Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hi mate. It's all about funds. What your willing to spend on the pond and filters. Here is my pond build thread on here mate I keep koi. Tench orfs grass carp. Rudd. Mostly koi carp...

Love it. Looks the biss Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I like the pond Once all the plants are all put in place. To make it more nature looking. I think the end product will be looking very good.. love it so far. In a couple of years. Once all the planting is mature it will look amazing. Water Lilly's in the pond. And iris Around the edges. Plus...

ochiba gin rin size 18cm fred

two new additions to the koi collection. delivered next week. two gin rin ochibas size 19cm

Nice one garsands. Once the koi bug gets You. That's it mate. I have been keeping them for 30 years now . I love the hobby. And if you decide to build a pond and keep koi. If I can help in any way with tips on the build of the pond. And the help on the fish koi keeping. I am here to help mate...

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Gold fish are a lot hardier then koi. My tench orf Rudd grass carp are the same never flash or ail anything. Or show it. Just the koi Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

What I have read they eat things. So pooing. And also carry them on there feathers. So they carry and pass them on from lake to lake pond to pond. When I watch the birds. They roll about in my top pond shute. https://www.angelkoi.com/koi-parasites Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Love it zozo this is a special thread. And its epic. Love to read it mate. Hope your well mate. Bought 4 small maple Acer trees. To give the garden some colour. When they turn up I will need some tips of you bud. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

On the koi flashing side of things. I netted four that where flashing. Scraped some mucus of gill plate. And bodys. Top and bottom. They where all clean. Scratching my badly napper now. So I sat and watched them for half an hour. Then I noticed this doitsu matalic fish. In the window. Hanging...

My fish where flashing this week. 2 or 3 of them. I thought at first it was tempreture swings. So did the routine stuff. Water parameter testing of water. All ok. But found my kh At tap sauce and pond water had dropped From 12 drops to 6 drops. On turning colour. From blue to yellow. For years...

Hi gill. When I get around to it . I will be taking them bread baskets out. And rearranging the top pond plants. To all sit on the bottom lol. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

and here is the shower running. then I changed my pump on my skimmer line from a 8000lph to a 15000lph pump for better circulastion of the water for my skimmer that's it folks. why I did this was for more bio capacity. also more fish load fred

this bit here was a nightmare to do. had to knock a brick out the wall used a rubber boot straight coupler of my uv it was a lot easier and out the other side of filter house heading for my top pond and new shower joined to shower with a rubber boot 90 swept bend. used a rubber boot rather the...

while lockdown has been on going been busy ripping 1 1\2 inch pipework out and installing new 2 inch pipe work and new bakki shower also new 30000lph ea virio flow pump. with these pumps you can control speed of flow by a controller . you can save on the bills as well it shows wattage use and...

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Lovely looking fish mate. Very striking markings. And they hit you in the eye. Love the tank. Brill. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Nice one zozo looks good. I like that play toy. So do the fish Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

That I agree is a good write up. I was laughing. Because my imagination kicked in. And can imagine the wife. Sprawled out on her sun bed. And I decided to clean the Bakki shower full of that tape. I think I would be dead lol [emoji1787][emoji1787] In the koi world now with the new generation...

Nice one. It just shows. How you have a conversation. And something happens like that lol Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

This lock down has altered things a bit though because of the pandemic. I just go for one longer walk now. Ordered all my gear pipes fitting rubber boots. Jesus. The price. Because of this Lock down. More or less doubled in price. Hard to sauce the gear now. And they know it. The outlets. The...

Good on you mate. You have to have some thing to do later on in life. My hobbies are fish and my dog patch. I go out with patch Over the day maybe 4 or 5 hours walking. Love it. And my fish pond. I am glad I built that as I spend maybe 4 or 5 hours on that. Then when the nights are a little...

Nice one mate. I did nt know you still looked after ponds. I knew you had a pond and koi. And you built them in your earlier Years. Good on you and respect mate. This virus made me think a little more about the pond and fish lol. I was thinking about if the drum packed up. In the nexus. What if...

forgot to add also these vario pumps what an improvement they are. if your bills are to high you can control the amount of wattage straight from the control take winter when not feeding so much. turn the flow down. summer up the flow. its some times hard to control on ball valves. that s what i...

I agree 100% with you mate and thanks for the advice. sounds good. great info as always. I am afraid I have already bought the stuff. just waiting on 2 inch pipe fittings. and pipe. your spot on. on the price of the stuff. when I seen that I nearly fell of the chair. I was going to fill with...

also buying another draco drop in rotary drum auto self cleaning as this is more up to date. I will be replacing the one I have. and keep that as a spare drum. you never know when things break down fred

and a new uv. because my ea 55watt uv cannot get the flow I require designed for 1 1\2 pipe while this one can take 2 inch flow this lot should keep me busy for a while. while in lockdown all the best fred

this is the media going into the shower. I was shocked at the price of it. 1 tray of this this is the other media for bio I am going two trays of this

This is the midi shower going onto top pond. Can flow 20000lph This is the pump. You control the speed of flow with the wattage up and down. So I don t have to muck around with ball valves new 20000lph pump y SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I ain't got a clue mate. The last time I had her out was about a year ago. And the pan net was on the floor. With the weight. She would make a nice fish supper though. I love her to bits.had her from a baby. 23_24 years old now. My favourite fish the chagoi. Not for looks. For character and...

All the best Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

My big chagoi. And some more of the fish Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

My grow on scin at grow on 500 gallon tank Top pond. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Dont know what happened there done twice. Filter cleaned yesterday Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hi all the tempreture are at 14.4c now. Fish very active. And feeding. Started of slow feeding once a day 2 weeks ago. To kick start the bio in the pond. After tests today I will now feed twice a day. Some photos over the last week or so. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hi all the tempreture are at 14.4c now. Fish very active. And feeding. Started of slow feeding once a day 2 weeks ago. To kick start the bio in the pond. After tests today I will now feed twice a day. Some photos over the last week or so. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Very nice mate. Looks good Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Nice one mate. Keep it up. Looking good. And lots of photos. As you progress. We all love photos Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hi Mort hope your well. With all this virus stuff going on. This is where your glad you have a hobby in your back garden lol. I still walk patch a lot. So yes mate. Well occupied. He is coming along great. This is the time of year I love mate. With the water chemistry. And trying to get it...

There all roughly 10 inches the grow ons My pond this morning with out covers Tempreture of pond 10c. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

As a few know. I grow fish on. This lot where grown from 1 1/2 inch. My mate from Durham I promised his little girl she could have 4 of the 11 I have. They collected them 4 days ago. I had to bring the tempreture down from 22c to 10c. To match his pond. So over a week. I dropped the tempreture 2...

Go for it mate. Take care Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Changed my mind on the pipework. Still went 2 inch But fixed pressure pipe and glue weld. Had to many weeps. So now solid pipe. Replaced the 2 inch ribbed hose. No weeps or leaks now. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Spent yesterday converting my main nexus line to 2 inch from 11/2 inch pipe work. I want more flow and turn over on the pond. I timed it yesterday before hand. With Mark's in my nexus for flow. 11/2 inch was timed at 2 minutes. 2 inch was timed at 1 minute 36 seconds And I still have 4 meters of...

Covers are off. 2 days now. Brill spring is here. A nd the fish are loving seeing the daylight and sky again. Waiting to be fed. Pond tempreture 10c. Enjoy your ponds lads and lasses. Get in there Fred. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I have five of the same ones. On my koi pond and qt grow on set up. Two are permanently outside on the pond. And one in filter house. And two on grow on qt. Had them 4 years now. Cheap as chips. And done good. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Brilliant chuffed for you and the fish Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Have a great time mate. And happy fish keeping Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Have you got a microscope lol. Scrape the fish mucus. Put on a slide and have a look at what your treating. I never treat my fish. Until I know what to treat with. As in medicine. I would not add salt to the tank. As some medications are not to be used with salt. Salt dip the fish in a bowl...

Fish still active just been fed Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Even though its Christmas pond maintenance still goes on. Nothing changes for me during winter. I still leave everything running. Air uv s pumps full flow. And water changes the same. 20% once a week. Plus I trickle in and out. Pond temps 8.8c Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I had ea ones on my old pond for 25 years And never had to replace. They where good. But the one in the photos only lasted 3 years. Also I found that on double union ball valves you can over tighten the threaded part. Which makes them stiff. To open. When I put that new valve in. I took it apart...

Hi all. Just like to wish everyone a happy Christmas And a happy new year. All the best Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Looks awesome. Love it. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I misunderstood about bottom of pond being gravel. Apologies Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Agree with martin it will just move it around and stay in there. Unless you put a bottom drain in the system. How I use my system for the skimmer to work at maximum. Is to have an air dome on my bottom drain and the circulates the water With mid water returns. Pushing water to the outer of the...

Nice one zozo. If I remember correctly. My glass window is 22mm thick. Heat treated laminated glass. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Always interested when theres photos lol Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hi mate I have a flow rate of 13000lt going into my top pond with the plants. It's a 15000ltr pump. But with friction loss and a couple of 90 swept bends. I lose say 2000 ltr. I don t use the top filter as a gravel filter. I have baskets with pebbles in for the plants. And it works great. Even...

Hi ian. I was planning the pond for about 2 years. Plus the garden build. IE walls summer house. Indian stone floor. Filter house. I planned on one window. But during the build of the pond. I was sat where my summer house is. And thought you can t see the fish from here. So decided to put an...

I like it a lot ian. Looks good. I have a koi pond. A top pond and lower pond. All my plants grow in top pond. And none in lower pond. As the koi just ravage them I grow all my plants in baskets with just cobbled stones. Works great. And it does a good job on my nitrates and nitrites. Love the...

looks great the pond. looks very natural. love it

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Thanks for the kind words mate.All it is . Is cat litter scoop out the centre and add a fertiliser called laterite. You probably know this already. A bloke I know. Has done this. This year. And he used to have high nitrates . Plus 2x 20% water change a week on his pond. Now his nitrates are...

Hi mate I have a koi pond. Raised pond with about 20 koi in the pond. I don t have plants in the bottom of the pond. Nightmare. Also a bottom drain. To filters. Rotary drum and nexus. Completely different to your setup. I like your ideas for the build. To start the pond with small fish the...

Now the fish. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Tank clean out qt and grow on Grating out and reput dome on bd ST for dechlorinator on tank top up fill Filling back up after tank clean up Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Update cleaning tank out qt and grow on. Also water butts media clean up for winter Plus some photo s of the grow on fish bought at 3 inch. Some now 8 inch Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

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Covers are now on for winter. Pond temperature at 14c. Had a good year of growth. Now changed my food from queni growth High protein. To OSW feed. A mix of low protein. And wheat germ My new grand daughter. Emmy Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

That's what I thought. Red finned shark Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I like that design. Love the white stones. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Agree mate . Profit and greed come to mind. I have seen people take 5 fish home. And lose the lot in 3 or 4 days. Reason. There commercial holding tanks have salt. And chemical s in. To keep bugs at bay. And when they add them to there ponds. The fish can t handle there pond water. If I spent a...

Ok mate. If you look at say the fluke situation. There changing all the time. Fluke solve fluke m. Fluke P. I think they advised him to quarantine the individual fish treat it stronger treatment as in more fluke P and go from there. Until they come up with something.In other words take a chance...

Also found out there is a new fluke that is being imported on koi from Japan. That is immune to latest fluke treatments. If you koi keepers get it. As one of my mate has. And can t get rid of it. Phone or get in touch with Paula Reynolds. http://www.lincsfishhealth.co.uk/ My mate sent a video...

Thought I would update this. After I had got rid of the skin flukes. I had another infection. White spot. I believe it was caused because of the fish immune system being knocked back after using Cholrimine T And fluke treatment. How I got rid of the white spot. I bought FM & G. Mix. Five day...

Just a little update with photos. Top pond. Thriving Distance shot Waiting for there food Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Nice mate. The plants have grown great. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

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Hi Mort. Hope your well. The two grey fish Have a slight brown colours on them mate. So there ochibas koi. Fred Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk