| The way Momotaro recommends is directly from a bottom drain. Pulling from a skimmer you lose some of the benefit you are paying for, although it will still have a significant impact. They do have some ponds that run from a bottom drain to a vortex to the shower. So you could pull either straight from a bottom drain or from your settlement.
How it will affect your settlement depends on the rate of flow and the size of it. You could possibly feed it from one tube coming from the bottomd rain line, and another coming from the settlement, that would give you the ability to control the flow rate through your settlement chamber, and give you the benefit of settling out at least some of the water going to the shower.
The other thought is in relation to your bottom drains, are they hooked together so you c an pull evenly from them or are they piped seperately all the way?
Maybe if you could post a small diagram of your system and your piping it would help us to have a clearer picture of what you have.
Either way, to me, the worst option would be to skimmer feed. I think you will see a noticable difference in energy level and overall health of your koi from using the shower vs immersed BH. |