| Bs/ Bm?
Ok another thread...not as much about BM (and since again if I could get BM for three times the price of Lava rock I would get it irregardless of who makes it or how assinine their sales staff is.....)
Now this sort of "quote" of the parameters that are needed for a bakki shower to work its magic has bothered me from the first read through...
"You definitely can feed bottom drain, it does not clog, turnover minimum of 1.5 but the more the better."
the "1.5" there refers to pond turnover....
and THAT bothers me. Pond turnover ain't gonna control if a PMS is going to work. The ratio has to be in relation to fish load (feed) / temperature/ PM Mass...
now if pond turnover was the right call for BS's working then i could have a 20,000 gallon pond , maintained at 65 degrees)with 450 lb of fish (30 lb of food) and the BM would never clog if the pond turnover was 1.5?
But if I had 30 lb of fish( 1.5lb of food per day) in a 25,000 gallon pond at 76 degrees, with a Normal bakki shower and was pushing 10,000 gph the media, the media would clog?
By having Pond turnover as a parameter it appears as if the R&D(sales people) really didn't do "science" they did "what do you think the koi hobbyist needs to hear to use this stuff"?
Another example would be the thousand gallon pond with a BS, are you going to tell me that if I flow 1500gph over the media that it will stay "clean" frrom the torrent of water?
But if i have the same number of koi in a 9000 gallon pond yet only turn the pond over evry two hours the BS won't be as clean as the 1000gallon pond?
Val, calls it bad science...I call it salesmanship...without any real research.
i really do like the stuff. i just hate all the horsecrap that's it has been wrapped in in order to sell it. |