Tom,
This is a great place to share information. IMHO, there are many passionate koi keepers and breeders on this board. Everything I've learned so far has been either sparked or reinforced by members on this board.
I noticed you have a new pond approx 9000 gal US. I am planning and designing my first pond to be approximately the same size as your pond. Would you mind sharing your pond set-up. My plans (at least at this moment) are to incorporate 3 bottom drains that lead to 3 separate 42" vortex to separate solids and then through micro seives for the fines before sending water to Trickle Towers (BAKKI Type) for filtration. At the same time, I'm also still thinking of incorporating another filter for filtration of mid level pond water. I'm hoping to help increase the quantity of filterred pond water. I guess the down side to that is that I will need to run two pumps. What kind of pump(s) are you using? Hows the energy consumption? How deep is the pond? Any lessons learned? Sorry for so many questions, being a newbie to this awesome hobby, I get really hyped just talking shop. Thanks...
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