| Ya know, koi and pigeons arn't really that different. The key to healthy birds is max ventilation with out drafts. I think the key to healthy koi is max oxygen, fluid bed ot TT with out so much flow as to wash the bacteria away. Then we can move on to water clairity, mech filters. I guess in a perfect world you would have some of all, like Dick. If you cant go with a TT then I think a fluid bed would be next best. But then how much air? Dick and I just had a conversation about one of my fluid bed filters and both thought there was to much air, boiling the media to much. So we drilled a bleed hole and it looks much better now.
One thing I think we can agree on, the less efficiant the filter, the bigger in size it needs to be. There are koi keepers running nothing bt baki showers for huge ponds and fish loads because of how well they work.. Dr Conrad loves the lava rock TTs. I'm going for fluid beds because I don't want some ugly TT sitting over my pond.
There are many roads to Rome I guess. |