Hello Cheryl,
Thanks for the questions. As I stated in an earlier post - we have moved our Flagship store and completely demolished everything - including our lake - at our old place. The new store is open, and we are in the process of building all new displays. As we re-build, we are going to take "step by step" photos of each display for instructional use on our web site, owners manuals, and brochures. The old 3 acre place wasn't very secure - we had many robberies and thousands of dollars in koi and filter systems stolen several times. So we built our "koi ponds" inside a greenhouse above ground that can be completely seen by a surveillance camera we had installed. The koi in the ponds where beautiful, but the ponds themselves weren't worth photographing as they were built mainly as "test" ponds to work out the bugs in our HBV filter designs and HC centrifugal pumps. This is why there are currently no photos of koi ponds on our web site. We are working on it now - and will have them up prior to next spring.
At our new place, I do have our "indoor" koi pond built and running - although it is not "cosmeticaly" finished. I'll photograph it, along with the equipment used to build it and post it on our web site - I'll post some photos here as well. The pond is "L" shaped. 20' x 10' on the verticle part of the "L" and 12' x 10' on the horizontal part of the "L". It is 5 feet deep with 3 1/2 feet below ground and 1 1/2' above ground - bare liner. We constructed a "box" around the pond out of 4"x6" timbers - we'll later cover the outside of the timbers with "Cultured Stone" to finish it out.
The pond features two pumps - our HC-050 Hydro Centrimax centrifugal pump connected to a Bottom drain at the elbow of the "L". This pump then pushes water through one of our HBV-28 bead filters that then passes the water back to the pond. This pump sends water to one of the 5 Hydro Columns at the head of the "L" and one submerged jet into the pond. We have a second pump - a submersible - our Hydro Dynamax HD6000 inside our Piper HydroClean pond skimmer that sits outside the box to show customers how this skimmer can be moved away from the pond's edge and be adapted to concrete ponds, or "box" ponds. This pump then passes water to a second HBV-36 bead filter. This water then passes back to the remaining 4 Hydro Columns and a second submerged jet.
The pond also has an air compressor and 6" airstone to aerate the bottom of the pond. We have two "Heron" fountains in the pond, as well as about a dozen or so Umbrella Palms and Papyrus plants sitting on the one plant shelve. We haven't installed a UV yet, the pond is indoors and we're seeing if it is needed - so far it hasn't been. I haven't counted, but we have about a dozen koi in the pond ranging from 10" to 20". "Jelly" is the name of the largest. She is a Kohaku from the Kodama Koi Farm and a big sweetie-pie.
Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have, and please, tell me your concerns with our web site and how we can improve it for you.
If you are interested in learning more about the products used in the koi pond I described above, the links below will take you to each product for you to see.
Centrifugal pump
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/hc050.htm
Submersible pump
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/spm10.htm
Bead filters
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/F...ee/biotube.htm
Hydro Rock columns
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/H...rilledrock.htm
Pond skimmer and extension
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/F...ensiontube.htm
Air compressor and stone
http://www.russellwatergardens.com/P...ompressors.htm
Thanks Cheryl,
Sincerely,
John Russell