| I think you can appreciate what I said earlier about a large filter that can not accommodate more fish- it is a valuable dilution factor. Plants, especially floating plants house bacteria as much as any other surface.
And Carl, thanks for your response. I regret that I didn't make my points in your regard. But honestly, the INNOVATION is there, in the evolution of the fundamental concept of managing a closed system. This is why I said that those of a newer orientation are at a disadvantage as they have no grasp of the big picture and therefore lack perspective- this is an incubator for innocent arrogance. So plenty of INNOVATION from the raw stand pipe to bottom drain that delivers waste to an isolation sump or vortex. And then the answer unit and the rotating sceen and the auto flush and the --- ect. All part of the same big picture concept. Perhaps you are confusing yourself with the logic of what I'm saying? And perhaps you are thinking about other systems that don't involve biological principles like the way we communicate today compared to twenty years ago? Communication, medicine, manufacturing have all changed. But people still use their ears to listen and voice to speak. And people still die of infection just as they did in the caves. And we still make things- just more things , more efficiently.
A koi pond is a giant, living digestive tract. This biology doesn't change. And because it is located outside, changing it would be like changing all the rules of surrounding nature. Even if you do no seeding of your new system whatsoever,the same species will come, only the start up and dominance will take longer- but it will wind up in the same place eventually ( if conditions are right). So we do not dominate anything- we influence it. And the principle is always the same- inorganic and organic waste management by encouraging an environment that is biologically conditioned by microbes that are also compatible with koi. So innovating ways to make this all more efficient and reliable is where my hubris lies. Fighting these realities due to lack of understanding and using bandaid upon bandaid or products to address one break down in the chain ( and actually gaining some level of success over that one breakdown) is where the innocent arrogant does harm. Not to themselves necessiarly, but to the hundreds that read this success in the moment as a 'new way' of ignoring the rules of nature. - JR |