• We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo

New project, will take a long time

OK Yan, thanks for the update. Sorry to hear you lost one. Blanket weed is a pain once left to take over. I've only had a small outdoor pool which I've used to culture live food for indoor tanks. Blanket weed use to take hold from time to time. Are you getting the life expectancy on the UV tubes, or do they seem to die quickly?
Yeah, that big sturgeon looks great.
Cheers, Andy.
 
Aquarist Andy said:
OK Yan, thanks for the update. Sorry to hear you lost one. Blanket weed is a pain once left to take over. I've only had a small outdoor pool which I've used to culture live food for indoor tanks. Blanket weed use to take hold from time to time. Are you getting the life expectancy on the UV tubes, or do they seem to die quickly?
Yeah, that big sturgeon looks great.
Cheers, Andy.
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I seem to get blanket weed each spring, at the first sign of it I nuke it with CBA, which seems to last it all season. The trouble is I only spotted a small strand of it and left it couple of days and even when I treated the pond it wasn't that bad. Yet it did completely block the underground pipework, I was glad of the sieve as I could use it as a plunger to free it. Still three football size lumps came out.

IME these startsmart bulbs do do the trick. I can't remember 100% but they a daft figure on life expectancy like 370days? They run well for about 10months and then start to drop off, obviously with reduced running in the winter a set should last a good 18 months, picked the two new ones up for around £40 on ebay.


 
Just finished reading this entire thread. (Spend lots of time in hotels) the filter design was especially intriguing. Do u still run any of the vortices before the nexus? Or is it all nexus? I've been working out designs for outdoor water feature filtration for a few years and this thread has really added some new elements to what I find to be a very interesting part of the whole pond concept, the balance of an ecosystem. That seive is so simple yet effective I gotta work out a version I can build. Thank you for your long maintained thread never seen one so complete from beginning to end chronicling the entire journey along the way. Amazing work and sturgeon rock!!
 
cichlidtank said:
Just finished reading this entire thread. (Spend lots of time in hotels) the filter design was especially intriguing. Do u still run any of the vortices before the nexus? Or is it all nexus? I've been working out designs for outdoor water feature filtration for a few years and this thread has really added some new elements to what I find to be a very interesting part of the whole pond concept, the balance of an ecosystem. That sieve is so simple yet effective I gotta work out a version I can build. Thank you for your long maintained thread never seen one so complete from beginning to end chronicling the entire journey along the way. Amazing work and sturgeon rock!!
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Thanks for the reply, I'm not as busy as I used to be on here, but at the same time I have no projects going on at the moment. I only run the sieve before the nexus and nothing else, the picture on the pervious page shows how the filters are now set up, the vortexes were great and worked, but the problem was space and maintenance were a total pain, the nexus unit although flawed does a great job, People in the UK still ridicule me for having a sieve before it, the nexus will only filter down to 200 microns and the sieve is rated at 300 but with a blanket weed breakout, imagine that in the nexus.

In the time since the project started I would have done a hundred things differently from the start, and saved several grand+ along the way. I do intend to redo the whole thing and take this from a koi pond to a proper koi pond, this will take plenty of cash to do but when I do do it again, next year(possibly the next) it will be on here and fully planned from the start(I did start will a hole and again I will not have to dig it:-))

Thanks for reading the thread.
 
So, I read somewhere along the way that you like to hear about when new people find this thread and read through it and what not, so, yeah I did. Took about a week to get through the whole thread. Truly great work and I'm glad you made it through all the troubles to end up in a pretty good place with the pond right now as far as I can tell. I can't say I currently have any interest in ever building a pond, but I did enjoy the read. Actually, this is my first post on the site here. Mostly lurk around here dreaming about building a big tank some day and created an account to get rid of the wall of "please sign up" advertising at the start of every page. Stopped by last week intending to browse the DIY tank threads for some inspiration but found this thread instead and just started reading and like a good book didn't want to put it down. Anyways, great work, and maybe I'll check in from time to time looking for new updates.

Even though I'm new, am I allowed to...

Bump for zenn?
 
Rhinox said:
So, I read somewhere along the way that you like to hear about when new people find this thread and read through it and what not, so, yeah I did. Took about a week to get through the whole thread. Truly great work and I'm glad you made it through all the troubles to end up in a pretty good place with the pond right now as far as I can tell. I can't say I currently have any interest in ever building a pond, but I did enjoy the read. Actually, this is my first post on the site here. Mostly lurk around here dreaming about building a big tank some day and created an account to get rid of the wall of "please sign up" advertising at the start of every page. Stopped by last week intending to browse the DIY tank threads for some inspiration but found this thread instead and just started reading and like a good book didn't want to put it down. Anyways, great work, and maybe I'll check in from time to time looking for new updates.

Even though I'm new, am I allowed to...

Bump for zenn ?
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Thanks for the read, glad you enjoyed it. And no we lost about 3 pages because of that ;-)
 
please add some new pics when you can
 
Will do Liz, the garden is a bit of a mess at the moment but the pond is fine.
 
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