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Quote: Originally Posted by MikeM This past weekend I spoke with Carl Forss at length about filtration. (He owns Keirin Koi and deals in the EA line of products.) His experience has been that in locations where there is substantial leaf drop into a pond, the Nexus needs a vortex in front of it to capture the largest debris. Only then can blockage be avoided in situations where the koikeeper cannot engage in daily filter maintenace routines. The prersence of substantial algae may fall in the same category. This is important to me, because I have to have a system capable of operating without human involvement for at least 7 days at a time, even if it operates at a lesser level than is otherwise achievable. I may be able to do daily settlement discharge, or on little or no notice I may be out of town for a week. The system has to be able to function on that basis or it is not right for me/my pond, no matter how good it may be in theory.

Thank you MikeM for saying that. I think everyone who has a pond should build in a similar requirement. I'm sure not everyone can be available everyday throughout the year for daily maintenance. What about week long or month long vacations to Japan to scope out the latest mud pond prospects? Everyone, at one time or another will be faced with not being available for 2-5 days and I think having a filter system to be able to keep up the water quality at acceptable levels is vital to the success of the designed pond systems. Does this mean larger and more capacity filtration? This may give overkill in filtration a new meaning...Aloha.