Roger & Tracy's garden had a large lawned area surrounded by some lovely flowers,shrubs and trees.The pond is an elongated figure of eight shape containing 5000 gallons and is five and a half feet deep. A great feature of the pond was the veiwing window, these are now a very popular addition to ponds allowing you to see the koi from all angles.Good for spotting problems such as raised scales or ulcers before they really take hold. But I bet not many windows were installed while the fish were still in the pond as Roger sucessfully managed to do .
Most of the koi in the pond would be classed as large, being around the 24inch mark and they were all very good feeders, fed by the Cloverleaf auto feeder throughout the day and in addition by both Roger & Tracey whenever they could.
As with all large ponds you also need a large filtration system to keep the pond in tip top condition and this pond certainly had that. Gravity fed to Rogers home made filter, based on a well known filter unit. This was easily big enough to handle the 5,000 gallons alone. Water from this filter returned to the pond via one of the many returns.
Further filtration was provided through the home made trickle tower and a fluidised bed filter.
The whole pond system is powered by Grundfos water pumps and returned back to the pond via a TMC 55 Watt U.V and an electric heating unit. Aeration for both the filters and pond was through a number of Secoh 40 airpumps. All this making for a very impressive filtration system which after seeing the quality of both the water and the koi works amazingly.
Another great night was had by the EYKS, thanks to Roger & Tracey for allowing us to see their pond.
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