| most of the meandering streams with rock in them are trash collectors and eventually become sludgy and work against you unless you clean them. Trust me on that.
cleanliness is next to godliness with koi ponds. ponds that are designed to catch waste and unload them daily work best. It's obvious that Mike in Hawaii is way over filtered but you can tell by his water quality and growing koi, he's doing it right.
I think good koi keepers are devoted, like good bonsai keepers. It's being there daily and enjoying the "work" of keeping with a passion.
This summer in my outside pond i will run a BB then thru my filter system and will backwash every 3 days. because of the giant filter system as back up to the BB
there is no fluctuation in water quality.the BB acts only as mechanical in my mind. |