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by dave a
Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:24 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Ted's Pond upgrade
Replies: 111
Views: 160284

good post

Good post Chi I have to agree with almost everthing you say but most importantly is the removal of waste before bio chambers, unfortunatly most vortexs sold are not big enough or have enough distance between inlet and out to be anywhere half decent at allowing settlement to happen. As for returns we...
by dave a
Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:20 am
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Ted's Pond upgrade
Replies: 111
Views: 160284

Fatherted

No problem I run one of andrews filters as well and have done a small mod to get better pull when flushing drains, give me a bell on 01623-400672 after 7pm any evening and I will talk it through with you also please dont think I am knocking Andrews filters in the main they work well and he is a good...
by dave a
Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:22 am
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Ted's Pond upgrade
Replies: 111
Views: 160284

media types

Chi I am not doubting your findings at all so lets get that one out of the way to start with and am interested in your findings belive me, however in the circumstances there are several limiting factors. The filter refereed to I have to say is not of good design the bottom outlets for waste flushing...
by dave a
Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:18 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Ted's Pond upgrade
Replies: 111
Views: 160284

filter mods

Just a quick one in response to chitas rating of turnover on multibay, I know the units 5 acre produce, unfortunatly to achive the higher flowrate through them it is essential the transfer ports are modified to allow the flow rate to be upped to that suggested however I think you will struggle to ge...
by dave a
Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:14 am
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Ted's Pond upgrade
Replies: 111
Views: 160284

filter

Good morning Just a few thoughts The nexus is supposed to be state of the art and will filter a koi pond up to 7500 gallons, if one works out the ammount of water it holds your filter system from 5acre will not fall far short of that, therfore if you have the equivelent ammount of K1 in your system ...
by dave a
Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:09 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Pergola
Replies: 41
Views: 42208

new dimension

you really need to hide that skimmer mate the pergola highlights it well maybee paint it brown to match the timber :D
by dave a
Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:49 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Pergola
Replies: 41
Views: 42208

pergola

Nice to see you were helping to do some errecting as well mr taggy :lol:
as usual in the warm while monkey boy lived up to his name climbing structures :roll:
by dave a
Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:32 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: New Build
Replies: 35
Views: 38843

dig baby dig

I thiught it was gonna be bigger than that mate :D
by dave a
Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:22 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Quarantine pond build (UPDATE 2)
Replies: 35
Views: 61096

you will have pm very soon

Jason
you will have pm tomorrow can fit it in between xmas and new year if you like
by dave a
Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:10 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: RO system query - mechanical
Replies: 97
Views: 103429

RO

Pop round dave if you need to see the RO plant we are running mail me as I have a new mobile no

Look forward to catching up again been to long mate
by dave a
Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:57 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Return of the S.I.M.P.L.E. (Easy) thread
Replies: 52
Views: 140895

Kind comments

well thank you for your comments re the holes a very painfull job to get them neat I made a paper template with all the centres marked (use of autocad) taped in position I then drilled each hole 3 times starting with a small drill then 6mm and then 9mm and then cleaned them all with a file damm aful...
by dave a
Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:14 pm
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Return of the S.I.M.P.L.E. (Easy) thread
Replies: 52
Views: 140895

how I made it

well it is constructed in fibreglass the chambers just happend to be the right size of a couple of large empty food buckets I had lying around the mould for the cone on the bottom is made from a stainless steel dish that i managed to come across and was fit for purpose so the unit comprises of 3 par...
by dave a
Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:47 am
Forum: Historic posts read only
Topic: Return of the S.I.M.P.L.E. (Easy) thread
Replies: 52
Views: 140895

deazy / eazy

see this link

www.koiquest.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=615