this new product called clarity, any one using it ?

[gspotmc]

Don,
When is your unit coming in? Are you bulking up you filtration?
Michael

[koiczar]

Quote: Originally Posted by gspotmc Don, When is your unit coming in? Are you bulking up you filtration? Michael

Mikey

He must be. First it was a "pond sieve" and now the Clarity Unit! Men and their toys, what will someone think of next for us to dump our money into!?!?!?

Yes, I saw Erwin's in action last year when paying him a visit. Very impressive results, but is the expense worth it? The cost of these units is prohibitive! Erwin has a unit designed, I believe, for ponds up to 10,000 gals. His pond is around 2500gal if I remember correctly. So, would this unit really work on a 10,000 gallon pond EFFICIENTLY?

Mike

[schildkoi]

Quote: Originally Posted by koiczar Mikey He must be. First it was a "pond sieve" and now the Clarity Unit! Men and their toys, what will someone think of next for us to dump our money into!?!?!? Yes, I saw Erwin's in action last year when paying him a visit. Very impressive results, but is the expense worth it? The cost of these units is prohibitive! Erwin has a unit designed, I believe, for ponds up to 10,000 gals. His pond is around 2500gal if I remember correctly. So, would this unit really work on a 10,000 gallon pond EFFICIENTLY? Mike

I was supposed to help Bryan Bateman install his last spring but it got delayed in shipment so he installed it the following week. His is a 10,000 gallon unit and his pond is over that size. I was back a few weeeks later when it was up and running. This was the period of the 17 year Cicated locust. T put that into perspective, it is a once every 17 year pheonomenon where the air is thick with these locust. It seems like an even directly out of the Bible. Now why is that important? The pond saw more than its share of these insects and the koi loved them. Talk about high protiens! The Clarity unit was producing foam like I have never before seens. The water stayed pristine (better than I had ever seen their water before). I was truly impressed. On the flip side, nothing is ever cheap in the koi hobby it seems.

As Cheryl mentioned, there are some good pictures in the latest issue of KOI USA.

Steve

[Auntiesue]

Because of Bryan and Bays recommendation, I'll be purchasing a unit this spring as well. Who is the distributer in the US for it?

[Nancy M.]

Quote: Originally Posted by Auntiesue Because of Bryan and Bays recommendation, I'll be purchasing a unit this spring as well. Who is the distributer in the US for it?

Purdin Koi and Koi Enterprise are the only ones I know that sell it.

[KoiCop]

Quote: Originally Posted by gspotmc When is your unit coming in? Are you bulking up you filtration?

Hello Michael . . .

Our bio-filtration is outstanding and has, I'm sure, lots of additional carrying capacity. But it's all submerged media (Ultima II filters followed by upflow J-mat chambers).

Our vortex is undersized due to space considerations and the Cetus sieve should more than make up for that defect.

As far as the Clarity unit, we believe its trickle tower component will lower nitrates (from 7 winter/10 summer) to close to zero -- and its foam fractionator component will eliminate the last trace of DOC's from the waterfalls.

Or at least that's the plan.

[KoiCop]

Quote: Originally Posted by koiczar Erwin has a unit designed, I believe, for ponds up to 10,000 gals. His pond is around 2500gal if I remember correctly. So, would this unit really work on a 10,000 gallon pond EFFICIENTLY?

The Clarity units come in two sizes. Our pond is 6K gallons and we needed the larger unit.

The unit consists of a trickle tower & a foam fractionator. The TT reduces nitrates while the FF reduces DOCs.

So, conceivably, even if there aren't enough DOCs to foam like crazy the TT will still be kicking butt on the nitrates.

And since it's being added to an existing circuit (no-niche skimmer, 1/4 hp Artesian PP pump, Ultima II 6K filter), there won't be an additional pump to purchase or more electricity required to run it.

[saratogatan]

thanks for the info. Has anyone compared the performance of Clarity against other type of protein skimmers ? Like the DIY one posted on sites a while back ?

stan

[KoiCop]

DIY Foam Fractionator . . .

Here's the one I built last June, Stan -- a simple, low tech, one air stone model.

The Clarity unit ought to outperform it on DOC removal by a factor of a gazillion.

[saratogatan]

thanks don. How do you rate the result of your DIY project ? I like it in that I can hide it somewhere in my setting. I don't know where, but somewhere.

stan