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Hi and welcome to the Dazzle Koi website mark 2.
Having spent months building my first website, and finally getting it to where I wanted it to be, the site was hacked and I lost it all. More money and more time later and its starting to rise from the ashes. Its not close to what I had before yet but I will get there. Please let me know via the contact form if you have any ideas for things you would like to see on here.
Daz
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Hi Darren, I’m a huge fan and have learned a ton from you! I want to understand if I should have a Mechanical filter in front of the Bakki shower I built from your specifications? I wasn’t planning on that based on some of your comments on various videos, but how would I flush the shower to remove solids and clean it as often as I should to maintain a happy and healthy environment for my koi… You have made me realize how poor a job I have done in the past with cleaning my filter and as I am reconfiguring my DIY filter system, I want to plan for ease of cleaning and be a better koi parent!!
I have a (roughly) 400 gallon pond and will have an 1800 gph pump feeding the shower. I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks – Beth
Hi Beth and thank you very much.
A shower can work without being pre-filtered BUT it really needs all the conditions to be right, the key one being flow rate. I ran 1m wide, 4 tier showers, with genuine bacteria house media for many years straight from a bottom drain with no pre-filter and it worked perfectly. I didn’t clean the showers once. The media is able to smash up and ‘consume’ organic material. However, if you are off with any of the key elements (4 tiers, ceramic media, huge flow, shower tray geometry), then you could see conditions were the media blocks and you get an opportunity for bacteria to form.
Its hard to say without seeing your particular situation. Is your pump for the shower taking dirty water from the bottom of the pond? Is it passing a LOT of solid waste to the shower?
Daz