Simply Koi and More Koi

one very easy to make floating basket ...

take one bread basket tray the kind you see in tescos or asda on the shelves or ask the bread man nicely for one .
get a length of inch and a half pipe and four solvent weld elbows ,
on the bread tray there is a shoulder secure tightly the pipe around it gluing the elbows as you go so no water can leach into the pipe to achieve your flotation basket then sits half in half out of water for inspection of fish you could even put a measuring tape in as well ....simple cheap and it works.
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lol i know you want one

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me too...

thanks jane ...very much.appreciated

he's just stuck his chest out with pride and said yipppeeee i've got one

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Them litlins is looking big now Gerry,any show winners you want to move on.............

Regards Dave

always open to offers dave ...youve seen em ...so you know how good they are..... chags, shusui, kohaku ochiba sanke and showa pm me if you like.

Have to admit gerry, I adapted your idea to create a floating safe haven for my water cress. I took a length of clear plastic tube, joined the ends together with hot glue to form a continuos circle, dropped in a garden sieve (from my TT experiment) to give me a floating veggie filter.

piccys john piccys .....would it work with water lilys etc i do like em but so do my koi and rip em apart, i would like to put some foliage in the pond as features maybe but they just chomp on everything.

OK, just took this one...
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And noticed the big guy circling around looking for a cress sandwich so wondered...
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I never realised the flash would penetrate the water as well as it did. I think the clarity is better than some I have taken during the day.

The OH called me early this morning. She said that the big fish was out of the water & looked dead
Haring outside in my slippers & dressing gown, I found this one curled around the bottom bowl of my fountain - he'd obviosly jumped in for some cress
Fortunately, there was plenty of water flowing around him to keep him going & also it was early morning.
The joys of fish-keeping.

Know what you mean about the fish chomping on everything. I don't think the sieve is deep enough to allow lillies room for growth, that said, you could do the same to a laundry basket?

got me thinking ...blue peter ...cheers john