bakki towers

[Lee]

Hey, Girl'

From the data already collected, can you make any assumptions?

Lee

[shiromujigirl]

Today's measurements

BH

temp 79F
ORP 280
pH 7.65
ammonia 0.5 ppm
nitrite off scale
nitrate 10 ppm
KH 100 (original source water 160)
clarity cloudy but clearing, algae


LR

temp 79F
ORP 279
pH 7.67
ammonia none detectable
nitrite off the scale
nitrate 10 ppm
KH 120
clarity cloudy but clearing, algae

[orion]

Hi SMG,

Besides water parameters, how are the fish doing? Any difference in behavior/ appetite btw the two tanks?

Orion

[shiromujigirl]

The fish have the same behavior and appetite in both tanks.

Here are todays readings, day 25.

BH

temp 78.8 F
ORP 280
pH 7.64
ammonia 0
nitrite off the scale
nitrate 10 ppm
foam and clarity see for your self

[shiromujigirl]

I said the koi have the same behavior but I did not describe the behavior. They swim around languidly, shoaling normally, and eat the two handfulls of koi food the ten koi in each tank get to eat each day.

LR tank

temp 78.8
pH 7.81
ORP 275
ammonia 0
nitrite off the scale
nitrate 10 ppm
clarity and foam here it is, such as it is

[orion]

Hi SMG,

hmmm...'languidly'? Would you say they're not in optimal spirits? Or is this what you would expect from a newish setup?

Wonder if you could also state which day of the experiment it is (day 25?), together with the water parameters.

Thank you for the excellent work!

Orion

[shiromujigirl]

It is day 25. I would not say they are at maximum health behavior as they would be under fishus maximus water conditions. But they are not sick, either. They are just "OK". Its hard to really tell because I can only see them in the top foot of water depth. The water went through a cesspool stage of bad bacterial smell in the first 10 days. In addition, both tanks spawned on day 4 and 5. I can see that their little spawning injuries have healed with no ulcers appearing.

Koi in my other ponds would be slashing the water competing for food if feed only twice a day. I do wonder about the oxygen levels in these test tanks, but my oxygen test reagent is disabled by ammonia binder. Once the nitrite goes down I will say OK, time to pump this nasty water out of there, put UVs on and do the 10% daily water change overflow that I have not been doing. I want to do it as Maeda does it. Once safely cycled so there is no possible danger to the fish we can get down to finding out what is happening to the poop.

[shiromujigirl]

One more thing I did today. You know I test everything out here. I put 2 C per 1000 gallons of clay in both tanks to see if it would do anything to the DOCs.

[shiromujigirl]

One more thing I did today. You know I test everything out here. I put 2 C per 1000 gallons of clay in both tanks to see if it would do anything to the DOCs.

[Doug Ward]

Exactly as I thought.....
Marketing ployzzzzz.
Here is an email from God Junior.
Do the math............
I hope they don't start buying up domain namezzz...LOL

Thank you, M... awaiting the end season resultzzz.

I'm very sorry for the very late reply.
>I forgot to reply you when I had this e-mail from you then I have so many
>e-mail from many people then I forgot to reply you.
>I'm very very sorry about it.
>
>Do you use UV light?
>How many fish do you keep in your pond?
>If you keep too many then you feed a lot that the water will be very
>difficult to be clear.
>We have same problem for the pond which we have to keep so many koi because
>we are seller so sometimes that we have to keep too many koi for some pond.
>But we don't have any problem with the water which not clear enough.
>But I do understand that hobbyist need clear water for see koi for enjoy.
>We have many customer who are using only Bakki Shower system that they have
>really clear pond with doing nothing. Because they don't keep too many kois.
>So, here I advice to you that if you need the clear pond that please don't
>keep too many kois in your pond and if you don't keep too many koi that you
>can have clear water and your koi can grow.
>Or other way that if you keep many koi with clear water that you need more
>media.
>We are using about 300kg of bacteria house for 10 ton pond.
>And one more important thing is how much water running per hour?
>Water have to run 2 or 3 times per hour for the bakki Shower.
>
>Anyway I reply you very late so if your pond already better or any news,
>please tell me about pond now.
>
>Once more again I'm very sorry for the very very reply.
>
>I hope your pond already better if not the advice what I gave you here will
>be helping you.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Daisuke Maeda