| You are welcome Don . As you know, the more of this stuff that the average hobbyist understands, the less likely they are to wander into product after product and waste years of their time trying to find a working system. More people leave the hobby every year due to frustration and never ending problems than leave from bordom due to instant success. Chronic sick fish, ponds that never clear, electrical disasters, etc.
I think that those that scorn the idea of 'one way' are a product of people who have wandered into a fix that works for them at the moment. And at that moment when they have licked the lastest problem or desaster they have a sense that they have found THE fix and a 'new way' to cope. Never realizing that the rest of us don't have those issues that lead to the 'new way' to begin with.
One true way is often misunderstood to mean ONE product to use or ONE shape to a filter or one brand of prefilter. That misunderstanding is proof that on the outside looking in, there is general confusion about the big picture.
I know of no one who attempts to build a house without a blue print? But we build ponds all the time without a thought and then 'retro-fit' it for the next ten years!
This subject of understanding the very biology that supports large fish like koi is KEY to success. It is not hard to understand. And if a system is done well and free from compromise, there is no better way known to run a koi pond. I'm not sure why people resist that fact? Ego/vanity? Economic issues?Financial gain? Just for fun or mischief making? I'm not sure?
JR |