Roy & Chrissie's Pond

With the arrival of Summer and the lighter nights upon us pond visits began to come thick and fast. Next up came a trip to Roy & Chrissie's 4,000 gallon pond.

The pond is informal in a shape best described as "like a number nine".
It is filtered via a 4inch bottom drain that runs to a Nitritech filter system more than capable of keeping the pond and fish in tip top condition.

From the last Nitrech vortex the water gets pumped, depending on which pond return through a sand filter, a fluidised bed filter and a 55 watt TMC uv. All the filters are housed in their own filter house allowing maintenance to be carried out whatever the weather.

The pond had seen the arrival of an attractive pergola over the winter months to help with shading and also offer some protection from the debris that falls from the surrounding trees.

Roy & Chrissie's koi vary in type with many go-sanke and a number of great metallics.There are also two very large koi a chagoi and an ochiba cruising the pond always on the look out for food.

Here they can be seen happily feeding on the giant mealworms they were being fed.

It was another great pond visit for the E.Y.K.S, thanks for the chance to see your pond and koi.

Charlie & Helen

Back in February, another pond we were invited to visit this year was Charlie & Helens 2,000 gallon indoor pond.Whilst it was still cold outside we were all snug indoors able to look at some very lucky koi making the most of their surroundings.

The pond is pre-formed and round in shape,filtered via a 4 inch bottom drain to a Nexus 200 unit,returning back to the pond via a 55 watt TMC UV and over the waterfall, supplying ample oxygen to the pond.

Although it was my first visit I could tell from the reactions of the other club members that the fish had all put on some serious growth since their last visit, this no doubt helped by the temperatures reached in summer inside the building and Charlie & Helens maintenance regime.

As well as the pond we were also treated to an out of season B.B.Q which went down very well with the E.Y.K.S members, so well it was talked about well into the summer. Thanks for the invitation to visit your great pond and for looking after us so well.