Air Pumps
Air pumps
When buying an air pump, you want one that is quiet, low in power usage, while continuously delivering enough air to your pond. To get the reliability, the pump must be able to do the work demanded of it.
When exerting the pump beyond that specified point, it will heat up, shortening its working life from a few years to a few months. It is therefore well worth the effort considering some aspects of using these pumps and air stones for aeration.
Media Retainers and Fish Cages
Media Retainers and Fish Cages
Moving bed filters offer various solutions for the problem of retaining the moving media in a place without restricting the flow and preventing loss of media. At a high flow rate, a simple grid at the exit point is often not good enough to avoid this from happening. A retaining grid that meets the requirement of a specific media is need. We approach the problem in a slightly different way.
Diffusion Depth
Media and the Diffusion Depth of the Biofilm.
The diffusion depth presented impacts on the evaluation of removal rates and treatment performance of MBBR carriers (biofilm media). Dr. Markus Geiger and Bernd Rauch from Multi Umwelttechnologie AG discuss important aspects to consider.
Jumping and swimming speed
Jumping fish and swimming speed
Many koi owners have experienced a fish flapping on the lawn because it jumped out of the water. Many have spent fruitless hours trying to revive these suffering fish in the hope of a miracle happening. We want to blame someone for this mishap and are quick to find the culprit, usually a protection net that was carelessly closed over the tank, or worse, failure to use the net at all. They call that negligence.
The Making Of Colour
In a colourful world
While the morphological variation was important in the creation of koi as they are today, the expression of color is certainly central to defining koi as ornamental. It is true to say that without colour koi would never have developed. Skin pigment cells produce the various colors. Erythrophores and xanthophores contain carotenoid pigments and produce various shades of red or yellow. Melanophores are black and contain melanin.
Mutag BioChip vs Kaldnes K1
Mutag BioChip vs Kaldnes K1
In a recent study, Bassin et. al. (2016) assessed the activity of the suspended and attached biomass on two types of moving-bed biofilm carriers under identical conditions. The moving-bed biofilm reactors were loaded with K1 (MBBR1) and white Mutag BioChip™ (MBBR2) and evaluated at different pollutant loads.
The Angle of View
The Angle of View
In our hobby the body shape of a fish tells us much. The concerned hobbyists try to gauge the sex, the age, future potential and quality from what they see. When looking at photos however, it is easy to form the wrong impression. Be careful to judge too quickly.
When viewing photos of fish, one must be aware how serious the angle of view can effect the photo.
Showa or Sanke
Showa or Sanke, what is in a name?
By Jim Phillips (SAKKS)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet
William Shakespeare 1595 Romeo and Juliet. Act 2 scene 2.
RAS Systems - Super Filter Media
The Mutag BioChip™ media for moving bed biological filters.
Aquaculture professionals, breeders and koi communities use Mutag BioChip™ as biofilter media for best water quality and large savings on OPEX
The Mutag BioChip™ speeds up pond filters with 3,000 m² of active surface area per m³ of filter media for the steadily growing nitrifying microorganisms for reducing the ammonia which is produced by the fish.
Show Water Management
Ever since I got involved with koi shows the seeming endless chore of water changes was a concern of mine. Not only was it a labour intensive task requiring constant attention and management; it also was a very wasteful act. On more than one occasion we
All about Size
Growth dispersion
This article is for carp and koi breeders of all persuasions and skills. The experienced farmer who wants to improve his breeding returns and the first-time novice breeder who do not know how to react to this observation. We revisit ‘ancient knowledge’ to explain common observations of fry when indulging in breeding, whether professionally of for pleasure.
Hydrogen Sulphide (2)
Hydrogen Sulphide
Toxic hydrogen sulphide is a silent killer that often goes unidentified as the real cause of fatalities or sick pond fish. Never disturb a biological filter bed without rinsing and flushing the chamber. Beware of walking on an in-pond gravel filter bed!
Choice of water Testing
We are all like that. We want the best that our money can buy. Sometimes we simply want the best car to drive out from behind our walled properties into the street. But when we sit back and consider the options, our senses override our pride. The money in our pockets speaks.
PVC Gate Valves
PVC Gate Valves have a proven track record of more than 40 years for being reliable, serviceable and economical in areas where the control of fluids at low pressure is required.
They find application in a wide range of industries from cooling towers to agriculture, from waste water control to nuclear plants.
