QT with bakki showers.....

[dick benbow]

Russ, Joe....points well taken. Filter if designed properly is just fine but needs to be matured. I run a bakki shower with BH in my inside pond and like it. But I also run J-Mat as well. I';m always playing with any new media that comes out for the knowledge. I think for ease of moving aged filter media into a new
facility you can't beat k-1.....

[keokoi]

looking at the pic again looks like a large peice of plexi is on top of the pond as a cover.. I dunno but seem like if the koi hits that in a jump then it could easily be knocked out. Like in my earlier post. Koi love to jump. This is new waters especially straight from Japan and being in a small space..

Joe

[carolyn swanson]

In what circumstances would the system have to be disinfected? The first thing that comes to mind would be KHV, but would there be others? My memory is more than a little faulty, but I remember somebody saying that costia can live in all those pesky snails, taking a complete nuking to get rid of everything. I would think that Bakki media would be difficult to completely disinfect with all those little holes, J-mat or gravel being easier to do a complete job. Or...would a hospital tank set-up be a wiser choice for obvious infestations.