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Facts About Koi

Before You Begin

What size pond will I need? What filtration will I need? The First Step in your Koi keeping career How many Koi can I keep? I'm new to Koi keeping - where do I begin? Happy Koi and Japanese Koi How Japanese Koi are priced

Facts About Koi >

How large can Koi grow? How fast do Koi grow? Koi and water temperature adjustment More on Koi growth rates Feeding and Water Temperatures How to identify Koi Varieties of Koi What do Koi eat? A Koi food menu

Diseases & Quarantining >

Quarantining your Koi KHV Niigata and KHV Happy Koi and KHV

Some Science & Koi ponds

Chemical Engineers & Koi ponds Particle Dynamics by Will Part 1 Particle Dynamics by Will Part 2

Other Fun Stuff

Duck feeds Koi Life in Africa: it's never boring

Feeding your Koi: How,when and why

Feeding your Koi

Useful Koi Links >

Water Quality

Water Quality >

Water Quality Why is water quality so important in a Koi pond? What is good water quality in a Koi Pond? Aeration, oxygen and water quality Koi food and water quality Testing your Koi pond water quality Koi pond maintenance

Are Koi swimming ammonia factories? Inorganic wastes How to manage wastes The role of oxygen More on oxygenation Removing ammonia using aeration

Oxygen >

The role of oxygen Why you need oxygen What is DO and can you measure it? Altitude and its effect on DO Water temperature and dissolved oxygen How to add oxygen to a Koi pond

How much air to put into a Koi pond Why we use airpumps Where to put air into a Koi pond Selecting an airpump for Koi ponds Silent air pumps Submersible air pumps Maintaining your air pump

Activated Oxygen >

Activated Oxygen and Ozone Activated oxygen and redox potential Oxygen thieves

Algae >

Algae Algae and Viresco Algae and AlgaeGo

Filtration

Ins And Outs

The 26 Steps to a winning Koi pond

The 26 Steps to a winning Koi pond The 26 Steps in more detail Filtration to use with the 26 Steps

Basics >

Free Minibook Introduction The nitrogen cycle Biological filtration Mechanical filtration

Intermediate >

Biological filtration and filters Bio film Biomedia SuperActiFlo explained Why one media does it all

Will's rant over sand filters Using SuperActiFlo as a mechanical filter Gravity or pump fed filtration? Maintaining a Koi pond

Upgrade >

Is my mechanical filtration adequate? How to improve mechanical filtration How to improve biological filtration

DIY >

How to build your own filters 1 How to build your own filters 2 SuperActiFlo media chambers

Peripherals >

Water pumps Air pumps Pipe and fittings

Natural

Swimming Pools

Introduction Basics No Chemicals!

Filtration >

Filtration in natural pools Wetland filtraton explained Natural filtraton explained

How To Build

A Koi Pond

How to build a Koi pond >

Introduction Design Bottom drains Settlement chambers Turnover rates Surface skimmers Water returns Waterfalls Commissioning A near ideal Koi pond design Use an architect but be careful! Pictures of a Koi pond design 'L' shaped Koi pond with filtration

3D Koi Pond Models - Totally Free! >

3D Koi Pond Models - Totally Free!

How to Seal a Koi pond >

How to Seal a Koi pond

How to convert your swimming pool >

Swimming pool to Koi pond 1... Swimming pool to Koi pond 2... Swimming pool to Koi pond 3... Swimming pool to Koi pond 4...

Pictures of Koi ponds >

Cedar lakes Koi pond pictures Durban Koi Pond pictures Smaller Koi pond pictures Pietermartizburg Koi Pond pictures Restoration Koi Pond pictures

How to get out of a Koi pond >

Mark shows us how

New Tech

Airlifts and Koi ponds Airlifts pros and cons Power failures

Bubble bead filters >

Bye bye sand filters! Hello bead filters! Bubble bead filter operating instructions

Pedrollo water pumps >

Wunder flange >

Junior Tategoi >

Dark horse May 2008 Dark horse September 2008 Dark horse July 2009 Dark horse March 2010

Hikari Koi foods >

Hikari Koi foods More about Hikari Koi foods Value for money Hikari Koi food menu Hikari research laboratory The Hikari team Hikari growing experiment Koi food treats & recipes

Waste water treatment >

Atec Project Management

Activated oxygen >

Activated oxygen and Koi ponds Activated oxygen elsewhere

Aquaculture

Aqua Culture

Aqua Culture - the Introduction Bio Media in Aquaculture Bio Filters in Aquaculture

Convert it!

Convert your Swimming Pool

How to convert your pool into a Koi pond Is your pool suitable? What filtration will you need? Using pressurised filtration Using low pressure filtration Using combinations of filtration What pumps to use Using a surface skimmer Aeration! NB!! A typical pool conversion Part 1 A typical pool conversion Part 2 A 70kl swimming pool conversion

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Koi pond filtration systems

In this section of the site you will find out how and why our filtration systems work

In the world of Koi keeping there are many different Koi filtration systems on the market. We have tended to favour non pressurised systems over their pressurized compatriots for two, no three, no four... simple reasons!

Firstly pressurised systems cost more to run.

And secondly, as yet we are unaware of any systems run by mother nature that are pressurised.

Thirdly, non pressurised systems are generally as a rule of thumb a lot easier to maintain. Access to them is normally less complicated and leaks are less of an issue.

Fourthly, you can normally see quite easily with your own eyes exactly what is going on. You can open them up and get to the bits you need to without any effort.

And lastly, they're normally easier to install.

Of course these are not hard and fast rules and many people report great success with pressurised systems. They're just not our first choice for our precious babies and the reasons for this are based on sound logic and practical experience we have garnered over the years as well as a healthy dose of common sense thinking!

Yes, some of our systems appear expensive. But they all offer economical performance and we weigh their value over the life of a pond - and it is in this time frame that their true value is realised! Build your Koi pond, but build it ONCE and build it properly is and always has been our philosophy.

Browse through our preferred filter systems and see for yourself how they will work for you.

Get the Koi pond filtration right and life will be a pleasure. Get it wrong and life will be a nightmare. This much we promise you!

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