Page 44 - Koi Net - On-Line Koi Magazine - Issue 17

Situated in a shed at the bottom of the garden was a matting. This filter was situated adjacent to the pond
900 gallon quarantine tank complete with a sieve to and was neatly hidden and covered, then gravity fed a
remove solids before going into the filter system. short distance to a shed where an Ecobead 60 delivers
water to the top of the waterfall filter which had aerated
We arrived at our third pond in Vange and were greeted flocore fed by a Superfish Pond ECO 8000 pump.
by our hosts Alan and Sue Cox where we were shown
down a pathway along the side of their house where Also in the shed was a 277 gallon quarantine tank with
there were Japanese stepping stones tastefully guiding a bottom drain which feeds a 3 bay filter with brushes,
us to their garden. Refreshments again, another big aerated Japanese matting and flocore then returned to
welcome! the tank via a Grundfos 15/50 pump and venturi.

This was an oval raised pond built with hollow concrete
blocks filled with concrete and rebar reinforcing,
rendered and fibreglassed. Above ground the brickwork
was finished with beige stone capping slabs cut to fit
the shape of the pond. The pond is 6 feet deep and has
a capacity of 4,620 gallons, including the filters, above
was a wooden pergola.
The pond had two 4 inch bottom drains feeding two
Titan 3000 filters, the bottom 1/3rd of each filter was
vortex settlement, the top 2/3rds was aerated Japanese

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