Our New Pond from holland

[kyari]

Math,
Your pond is beautiful, These guys here are the pros and give great advice, I am a newbie, so I can't say that much yet on the layout, mechanical wise, but aesthetically gorgeous.
You English is quite good, better than my German. We just moved back from Germany (Heidelberg) yes, hubby was in the Army, we were there for fours years. I picked up alot of German, I took 4 years of French in college. My French is OK.
Know any German I am sure you do.
Gutensag, it's evening here, I think you are 6 hours ahead of Eastern US time, I think Holland was in the same time zone we were in in Europe. You might be 5 hours ahead, next time zone. By the time you get this I should say Morgen! or foramlly Gutenmorgen.
Chao, or in Germany they say chose! alot. instead of chao.
Carrie

[gregbickal]

Quote: At this moment I am crunching some numbers and hope to come up with some calculations as to how many kilos of plants it would take to convert nitrogen waste of an average fish in a pond. The sums aren't finished yet but I believe it will be closer to 100's of kilos than 10kg.

How many kilo's are in here Think brushes, thousands of brushes.
Here's some data on Water Hyacinths and Nitrogen removal
The Water-Hyacinth - Dymond
Im not dis-agreeing with the points Scott has made. I do however have a watergarden with koi in it. The plants I have in my pond with the koi are Verigated Sweet Flag, Regular Sweet Flag, and Cattails. All growing in the rock around the edge, no dirt. The water hyacinth in the picture are growing in a 12" deep stream that is 48" wide and has a 8,000gph flow rate. I would say they number in the 2000+

[B.Scott]

Quote: Im not dis-agreeing with the points Scott has made.

Yeah Bickel, just remember, I got yer home address, and know about your hiding place in the church too!

Yes I would say you could measure that in 100s of kilos. Lots of salad there dude!

XX
B.Scott

[gregbickal]

I would be curious to measure my water with an ORP meter and see what I get. I do have hair algae that grows from the waterfall and gets about 10' long by the end of the day.

[B.Scott]

If thats the only place you suffer from it you should consider it a blessing. The stuff it evil!
I find it grows fastest in flowing water.

B.Scott

[math en peggy]

here, I also have al lot of hair algea, I have to clean my first part of the filter daily

[gregbickal]

One of the ponders in my area with a "real" koi pond, has hair algae so bad that it cloggs his 2 Nexus and he has to clean them like twice a day. He was asking if I could install one of my filters before the Nexus units to keep them clean I just about died laughing....

[B.Scott]

I used to remove buckets full every week. Tried everything to get rid of the string algae but nothing worked. Then i built a DIY static kaldnes filter ad it all disappeared and never returned. Go figure? Not to say I miss it. Koi keeping has gotten so much easier sinds it is gone!

B.Scott

[math en peggy]

Quote: Originally Posted by B.Scott I used to remove buckets full every week. Tried everything to get rid of the string algae but nothing worked. Then i built a DIY static kaldnes filter ad it all disappeared and never returned. Go figure? Not to say I miss it. Koi keeping has gotten so much easier sinds it is gone! B.Scott

hi scott,

I also made a static kaldness filter (makkie haha), but mine was clogged (?) two times a day,
how big did you made yours, how many kaldness and what is your flow?

[jckoi]

hi, Scott,
do you have picture too?
that will help.
thanks
Jackson.