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.