| Hi "Girl"!
Lee, for some reason word has gotten out that you wanted to try Bakki Showers but use locally available materials.
Yes, you're correct. I had contacted Mr. M. in Japan and I had eagerly shared my Bakki Shower and Bacteria House interest with him - on the basis that his system does work and is the best filtration system since sliced bread.
However, in reading all the prior commentary on this thread, I am no longer one hundred percent certain of what he has 'banged his drum' about is that ideal. Or, that it, indeed does work.
Nonetheless, if the BH and BS does work - as promised, I will be the first person in this part of the world to install the tallest and most numerous number(s) of B.Showers, all filled to the brim - with B.House.
On the otherhand, if it is just all hype, I would like to have the 'Mad Builder' provide another viable alternative suggestion for me...on how to accomplish the near same thing with something that does work.
'Girl' - as you may have also seen in the Aquatic Eco catalogue, there is a pre-built commercially available trickle tower already 'pre-made' and not requiring any demand from my two left thumbs to install.
Oh heck the Mad Builder and I thought you could saw plastic drums in half non-longitudenally,
Please, what is non-longitudenally?
Is this a medical term? Or, perhaps it is one of the Mad Builder's Southern dialect coded statements?
drill the bottoms full of 3/8 inch holes, stack them up racks in some disguised palm fronded nearby building as any filter it is unsightly, put in layers of coral rock and pump large volumes of water over them, like, 3000 gph per stack. Just on the off chance it is the method not the media it might work.
I have now heard from three or four posters, suggesting that I might want to try some of our islands abundant (and, laying around 100% free) sun bleached coral rock as an potentially positive alternative media...
...Thus, if sun-bleaced coral rock does work as had been suggested...I will scour the entire Caribbean for every piece of similar sized bleached coral rock with which to start a new industry, wherein the Mad Builder and I will offer 'Coral House Rocki' media in competition to whomever are those now selling lava rock or whomever may be contemplating the sale of Bacteria House media.
On other hand, I am also considering installing three or four 'other' commercially available methods of filtration, as well, on my new pond.
Thus, it should be interesting to a large number within our hobby to then have the opportunity to see actual test results and qualify which of these now advertised four commercial systems that I shall soon use (on my new gigantic pond) shall be found as the most effective, as well as, the most efficient and most problem free...
Girl, don't you agree that when these results are made know, that this 'comparable' actual scientifically testedinformation will be of great importance to all pond and fish keepers everywhere?
Lee
Grand Cayman
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