Biologist seeks Koi Clubs and enthusiasts wanted

[kckclass]

touche...my guess is most of these folks would do ANYTHING to add oxygen to the water.

[Bancherd]

Quote: Originally Posted by kckclass have a customer (also with an indoor pond) who has purchased one and we are testing the new model II on his pond. His feedback, once in and whatever modifications we make there will then result in a unit we want to test on a broader scale. Ideally for us a pond with low oxygen (to test the aeration feature) and/or black algae or a bacteria problem and high chlorinated water (to test the UV feature) and regular lab analysis would be most helpful.

You are either are a very lucky person or have a VERY good product, or BOTH.

A customer is willing to pay for your product, beta/field test it, then supply you with the data? Wow!

If the product is that good, I am interested but might not be able to supply you with all the data.!! How much does it cost?

[GazKoi]

So have you any pictures of this unit in eather opperation or static???


Would be intresting to see the unit

Gazza

[B.Scott]

Blancherd, You are kinder than I am in regards to this.

KCK, I don't know how much you know or understand about Koi, but many of the people on this board spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on fish. Call it high end if you will. However you classify it, I would like to think that we here have a larger interest in taking the well being of our fish to the max. To-where to-witt most of us have put a great deal of thought into the construction of the fishes habitat. While he strive to maximize the Redox Potential of the water there are many basic ways or doing so without resorting to magic boxes. Proper stocking, Good pond design, Correct maintainance and Sufficiant water changes will do more than and bit of exotic kit hooked up to the hose will achive. Furthermore in will do it consistantly and without failure or breakdown.

Getting back to the black algae issue... If you have a pond with black algae in it, you should be banned from keeping koi uintill you get yourself straitend out.

The old saying that brings all the hair on our necks overend comes to mind. "trust me, I'm a dealer"

Now that I think about it... you know who you should get to test this for you? Roark!
Go to www.click2roark.com ,
sign up and read his site. Then email him or check out the forum
http://www.click2roark.com/cgi-win/w...ion=wbgetindex

Mind you if you ar selling snake oil, he'll eat you alive but a fair an honest opinion you WILL get

B.Scott

[Roddy Conrad]

I did tour a "heavily stocked" koi pond of a "backyard koi dealer" a few weeks ago that might be a better candidate for your test purposes.

This pond had several homemade bead filters as the biofilters, there was NO aeration in any of the biofilters, and the dissolved oxygen was low, and the ORP reading was low, despite ideal levels for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. The only aeration was a diffuser over the bottom drain to an air pump. I encouraged the individual to install a large trickle tower to help with the low Dissolved Oxygen and low ORP (150 at 65F water temperature) issues. The koi were obviously all healthy, good quality Japanese koi, at high stocking density.

Like you indicate, I don't see why the device would be helpful to either of my koi ponds, so a different test site would probably be better.

I will see whether I can stir up some further interest....something new and useful CAN be a good thing if properly understood....