Very impressive - I really like this filtration system - I use something similar but not as complex - I really need to add you idea of the air intake for the down pipes, very clever and effective - thank you for sharing this
I missed your video so thank you for posting a new one. Pond looks good and the greenhouse is nice and big. Well done! Looking forward to the next one.
What city are you in ? Is the climate there warm all year ? I only ask because I see the plastic box filters and wonder if they last through the winters without cracking
This is fantastic. I'm trying to learn pond filtration for a customer of ours and stumbled upon this. 😍 I don't know if they'll go all out like this but i could!
@@chu0435 I bought treated lumbers to do the same but I’m somewhat hesitant, because It’s said treated lumbers contain arsenic which would gradually leach into water and could then be toxic to fish. If I’d use treated boards, there’d be 2 inches of the boards submerging in water. What’s your advice? Thanks!
Treated lumber will not kill your fish since only 2 inch of board is submerged, mine was about 4 inch submerged all around and the koi do just fine, you will be alright
In your sift filter, what is that mesh material that you use that collects the fish waste that you remove with the scooper? Trying to find something that is sturdy and doesn’t rip over time
Quite involved system. You do have a lot of Koi in there so you do need a lot. I have a 1000 gallon with 7 arm length koi. I have a big skimmer with brushes 2 bio falls plus a small bog with a small waterfall. The water is crystal clear but I do have to clean filters more than I’d like. I noticed you have a sieve filter. How much water are you pumping in there. I’ve made a few different ones and can’t seem to get them to do much. Using 250 mesh screen. I’m pumping around 4500GPH at each bio fall. I tried a manifold to disperse the water, then a section with a weir to get a nice flow but still nothing to speak of removal wise. Don’t quite understand why. Any advice will be appreciated.
I am using a 4,200 gal pump for the sieve filter and the micron size is the same as yours I believe. For the sieve filter I also created a weir to capture the fish waste and send it to another 55 gallon barrel, from the barrel it traps all the particals and sends the water back to the pond, that way you don't have to clean it as often. Hope that help
I hate to hear about your losses but it's extremely common for temperature losses to be the biggest ones first!! It's because of Increased toxic gases in the fishes gills brought on by the lack of O2 exchanges obviously the bigger the fish the more exchange needs to happen and the size of the fish is always their downfall when this happens?!!! Never allow the pond to freeze completely over you can very easily get a heater and prevent a ice event from killing anymore fish , look into them you have a really cool diy filtration system going on I'm sure you can prevent iceing in the future....I think your pond in amazing nothing cooler than walking up seeing that many koi greeting you!! Amazing filtration and pond for sure!!
Thanks for the great positive feedback! I have a diy pond de-icer and it work great every winter but last winter the temperature went down to -16 degrees Fahrenheit for a few nights and my diy de-icer was not enough
Is your pump internal or external. I'm resetting my pond up again and want to install a external pump that conveys the pond water through a 2 1/2" pipe with a birds cage opening at the bottom for pond water intake. A systematic drawing would be fantastic. You've done a great job, and I can see your proud of your achievement, well done you.
@@chu0435 would your system have worked if you had set up external pumps in that case. I am trying to plan mine with external now as had internal for yrs, and have just had landscaping done so keeping everything next to pond in detaches garage I built in garden, which is 4inches below pond level and 4 foot from garage wall. Thanks for replying.
I'm afraid this system is way above my visualization ability. Wish ya has a book of directions/plans. Now I think my Koi must have a better system than I currently have. We're new at this and learning daily. Thanks for your post. It very inspiring and of course your pond and fish are beautiful.
Great pond man. I’m will start raising koi once my pond finish this fall. I live in China and weather can go down to around 1 to 5C. Since you mentioned your fishes died. Is this mean every winter you have to move all your koi into warm water ? Thanks
Koi can survive freezing temperatures as long you make sure the whole pond does not freeze on top, you need a pond de-icer to keep a small hole on the top water so oxygen exchange can occur and your koi will be fine
Hi. Great setup. Quick Question: around what temperature do you stop feeding the koi and when do you turn off the filters in winter? Thank you in advance.
I stop feeding my koi beginning of November and turn off my aquaponics filter before the first freeze and continue to run the skimmer filter all winter long unless we get a hard freeze then I will turn it off then turn on again once the hard freeze is over
how deep is your pond? if the surface freezes over, the ice will insulate the rest of the pond and the koi will be able to survive but only if the pond is 4 ft or deeper. looking at the video, it looks like it's only 2 ft deep?
I would advise you to build your pond as simple as possible, whatever size you want to build at first double that size when you build it, cause in a few months you will think that your pond is too small and that you should've built it bigger. Don't cut into your linener trust me it will have you so much hassle in the long run. Incorporate aquaponic into your filter design. I used the new energy efficient pump that delivers 4,200 gal/HR but it only use about 120 watts, cost around $70. Hope that helps, Good luck!
When it gets really cold and you think your de-icer might not keep up you can always drop in a small pump and point the outlet towards the surface to keep the water stirred up on the surface to keep from freezing over. Just a suggestion. I love your thinking on all of your filters. 👍
@@chu0435 Dude maybe you can help a man if you was making a shower drip filter from a garbage tub and had zeolite, sponges/scouring pads, lava rock, Polyfilla and gravel . . . what order is best from top to bottom ?
Always the biggest media (most course) on top then as you go down it should be finest media on the bottom that way it should reduce the chance of your bakki shower getting clogged
@@chu0435 Great job! Must have taken days to build all that and weeks/months of planning!! Total cost for materials? What are your electric rates? Do you run the pumps 24 hours a day? At 13 cents per 1000watts per hour = 360watts X 24 hours = 8640 watts used (8.64 kwh X .13 Cents = $1.12 a day X 30 days = $33.69 a month).
Your math on the electric cost per month is dead on! 😃 Believe or not it cost around $1,000 to build the pond. The hardest part was digging the pond by hand that took around 2 weeks. If you check my first few videos which are on the aquaponics system so my filtration system follows the aquaponics set up which is easy for me to do, that took about 1 week.
Nexus maybe expensive but I have two nexus 300 models running on my pond since 2005 (17 years ago), lets see how this system holds up after the same amount of time.
All jokes aside, this video is all about DIYer spirit, it does not matter what filtration you use expensive or not as long as keep your kois happy and healthy, cause in the end is all about the kois
perhaps an emergency winter cover is needed & even an aquarium heater just to keep a small area clear of ice 🤔 the thing I learned many, many years ago is we keep water & if we are successful at that, the fish take care of themselves 😊 I absolutely love the fact that you have done this yourself ❤
This is overkill for me but i made my version from a 200 l and 50 l barrels and the pond went from spinatch soup to almost crystal clear water in 2 weeks, I could see to the bottom in just 24 hours. Thanks!
The best filter system, by far, is a RDF drum filter and a 55-gallon drum moving bed. It doesn't seem like you feed that much because the sive is so small and it can handle your bio load. I've tried this and my sive would clog up within a few hours.
Thanks!! The 55 gal drum act like a moving bed, I feed my kois once or twice a day. My sive filter collects the fish waste and sends it to another 55 gal barrel that collects it so I can use it to feed my plants
Filter looks like it works but looks so complicated omg, I was totally confused about the filters but it’s working for you! Thanks for sharing.
No problem
Very impressive - I really like this filtration system - I use something similar but not as complex - I really need to add you idea of the air intake for the down pipes, very clever and effective - thank you for sharing this
Thanks
I missed your video so thank you for posting a new one. Pond looks good and the greenhouse is nice and big. Well done! Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you for the compliment, I'll try to make a new one about the greenhouse soon
@@chu0435 super. Looking forward to it
What city are you in ? Is the climate there warm all year ? I only ask because I see the plastic box filters and wonder if they last through the winters without cracking
I am in Oklahoma, we get all four seasons. The 55 gal barrels are heavy duty
I just found your channel, so gorgeous! I can’t wait for the TH-cam algorithm to find your fish videos
Thanks I can't wait either
This is fantastic. I'm trying to learn pond filtration for a customer of ours and stumbled upon this. 😍 I don't know if they'll go all out like this but i could!
Hahaha tell them free vegetables for 3 seasons a year
Love the greenhouse. The pond is awesome.
Thank you! I am about to do a video on the greenhouse soon
Any chance of getting a diagram of ypur system?
How big is your pond?
Let see it is 16" x 14" four feet deep about 5,000 gallons including the filtration system
Very nice set up
Thanks
Hello what size is your pipe? Is it 2 inches pipe?
Yes it is 2 inch pipe
Where did you get all of those caps for the filtration? Seems like so many.
I work in a pharmacy so all those are medicine bottle caps
Hello - may I ask what type of top boards you used to circle your fishing pond walls? Look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!!
I believe it was 2" x 10" by 16 ft treated lumber to wrap around the cinder block
@@chu0435 I bought treated lumbers to do the same but I’m somewhat hesitant, because It’s said treated lumbers contain arsenic which would gradually leach into water and could then be toxic to fish. If I’d use treated boards, there’d be 2 inches of the boards submerging in water. What’s your advice? Thanks!
Treated lumber will not kill your fish since only 2 inch of board is submerged, mine was about 4 inch submerged all around and the koi do just fine, you will be alright
@@chu0435 Thank you! Are you in koi business? I’m in kentucky.
Yeah but I only sell locally in Oklahoma, $10 a koi and they come in a bach of 10 kois range from 2-4 inches.
awesome
Thank you
Do water smells ?
Not at all and no mosquitoes because your water is always flowing and moving
Hello Dear
Do you have a guide of the system that I can read. I need a filter system like yours to copy your work
Hi there, I really don't have a guide on the filter, I am sorry
Hi! I wanted to find out what brand and where you purchased the UV sterilizers from? Totally LOVE your Pond!
I bought them from eBay, is the 13 watt aquarium uv light for $13
In your sift filter, what is that mesh material that you use that collects the fish waste that you remove with the scooper? Trying to find something that is sturdy and doesn’t rip over time
I have a video on the sieve filter with more thorough explanation
Quite involved system. You do have a lot of Koi in there so you do need a lot. I have a 1000 gallon with 7 arm length koi. I have a big skimmer with brushes 2 bio falls plus a small bog with a small waterfall. The water is crystal clear but I do have to clean filters more than I’d like. I noticed you have a sieve filter. How much water are you pumping in there. I’ve made a few different ones and can’t seem to get them to do much. Using 250 mesh screen. I’m pumping around 4500GPH at each bio fall. I tried a manifold to disperse the water, then a section with a weir to get a nice flow but still nothing to speak of removal wise. Don’t quite understand why. Any advice will be appreciated.
I am using a 4,200 gal pump for the sieve filter and the micron size is the same as yours I believe. For the sieve filter I also created a weir to capture the fish waste and send it to another 55 gallon barrel, from the barrel it traps all the particals and sends the water back to the pond, that way you don't have to clean it as often. Hope that help
@@chu0435 thank you!
How many gallons is your pond?
Is about 5,000 gallon
Hi great video. Do i still air pump in the pond if fI already have good oxygen supply in my sump tank ?
I don't use any air pump in the pond at all
I hate to hear about your losses but it's extremely common for temperature losses to be the biggest ones first!! It's because of Increased toxic gases in the fishes gills brought on by the lack of O2 exchanges obviously the bigger the fish the more exchange needs to happen and the size of the fish is always their downfall when this happens?!!! Never allow the pond to freeze completely over you can very easily get a heater and prevent a ice event from killing anymore fish , look into them you have a really cool diy filtration system going on I'm sure you can prevent iceing in the future....I think your pond in amazing nothing cooler than walking up seeing that many koi greeting you!! Amazing filtration and pond for sure!!
Thanks for the great positive feedback! I have a diy pond de-icer and it work great every winter but last winter the temperature went down to -16 degrees Fahrenheit for a few nights and my diy de-icer was not enough
Is your pump internal or external.
I'm resetting my pond up again and want to install a external pump that conveys the pond water through a 2 1/2" pipe with a birds cage opening at the bottom for pond water intake.
A systematic drawing would be fantastic.
You've done a great job, and I can see your proud of your achievement, well done you.
All my pump are internal, all three pumps are in the pond at different depth
@@chu0435 would your system have worked if you had set up external pumps in that case. I am trying to plan mine with external now as had internal for yrs, and have just had landscaping done so keeping everything next to pond in detaches garage I built in garden, which is 4inches below pond level and 4 foot from garage wall. Thanks for replying.
Yeah my system definitely work with an external pump, the way I did my was just because is easy and convenient
What size pump/s are needed for a pond a/b 12'x8' please? I'm just starting this adventure.
Great set up man! Looked like you used uniseals for a lot of the fittings?
Yeah the uniseal is cheap and very effective
I'm afraid this system is way above my visualization ability. Wish ya has a book of directions/plans. Now I think my Koi must have a better system than I currently have. We're new at this and learning daily. Thanks for your post. It very inspiring and of course your pond and fish are beautiful.
Thank you so much!! I am still learning and improving my systems
Great pond man. I’m will start raising koi once my pond finish this fall. I live in China and weather can go down to around 1 to 5C. Since you mentioned your fishes died. Is this mean every winter you have to move all your koi into warm water ? Thanks
Koi can survive freezing temperatures as long you make sure the whole pond does not freeze on top, you need a pond de-icer to keep a small hole on the top water so oxygen exchange can occur and your koi will be fine
Hi. Great setup. Quick Question: around what temperature do you stop feeding the koi and when do you turn off the filters in winter? Thank you in advance.
I stop feeding my koi beginning of November and turn off my aquaponics filter before the first freeze and continue to run the skimmer filter all winter long unless we get a hard freeze then I will turn it off then turn on again once the hard freeze is over
This is what I call a DIY!
Thanks for the compliment
What is the brown material around the pond
The brown material around the pond are Wood Trim
Thats great , pond and fish look fantatstic
Thanks
Can I ask where you got the sieve material from?
I bought it on Amazon for about $20, search up stainless steel mesh
Frickin beautiful setup.
Thanks
I always like how you do filtration 👍👍👍
Thanks
Is that 100 mesh or 200 mesh your sieve filter?
If I remember correctly is the 200 micron mesh
May I know, what materials your mesh made of
@ronnieferrer4296
Is 200 micron stainless steel mesh
Is 200 micron stainless steel mesh
how deep is your pond? if the surface freezes over, the ice will insulate the rest of the pond and the koi will be able to survive but only if the pond is 4 ft or deeper. looking at the video, it looks like it's only 2 ft deep?
The deepest part is about 5 feet
Impressive!
Thanks
I admire your effort and the design of this! Can you share please further information I want to build a koi pond
I would advise you to build your pond as simple as possible, whatever size you want to build at first double that size when you build it, cause in a few months you will think that your pond is too small and that you should've built it bigger. Don't cut into your linener trust me it will have you so much hassle in the long run. Incorporate aquaponic into your filter design. I used the new energy efficient pump that delivers 4,200 gal/HR but it only use about 120 watts, cost around $70. Hope that helps, Good luck!
Hi vhc I've just subscribed to your channel 🙏👍👍
Thanks West Cliff!
👍👍
Thanks
Beautiful system 👍
Thanks
Subscribed , so cool and beautiful koi’s!
Thank you!!!
When it gets really cold and you think your de-icer might not keep up you can always drop in a small pump and point the outlet towards the surface to keep the water stirred up on the surface to keep from freezing over. Just a suggestion. I love your thinking on all of your filters. 👍
That's what I do now on those extreme cold nights, thanks
Like a swimming pool
Hahaha thanks
Great setup.
Thanks
8th wonder of the world
Lol thanks
@@chu0435 Dude maybe you can help a man
if you was making a shower drip filter from a garbage tub and had
zeolite,
sponges/scouring pads,
lava rock,
Polyfilla
and gravel . . .
what order is best from top to bottom ?
Always the biggest media (most course) on top then as you go down it should be finest media on the bottom that way it should reduce the chance of your bakki shower getting clogged
@@chu0435 thanks
@@chu0435 k
You have done a really good job for this awesome system, may i know your water turnover rate ? And how many watts used for the 3 pumps? Thanks.
Thanks!! About twice per hour, each pump is 120 watts and pump around 4,200 gal/hr
Pp
@@chu0435 Great job! Must have taken days to build all that and weeks/months of planning!! Total cost for materials? What are your electric rates? Do you run the pumps 24 hours a day? At 13 cents per 1000watts per hour = 360watts X 24 hours = 8640 watts used (8.64 kwh X .13 Cents = $1.12 a day X 30 days = $33.69 a month).
Your math on the electric cost per month is dead on! 😃 Believe or not it cost around $1,000 to build the pond. The hardest part was digging the pond by hand that took around 2 weeks. If you check my first few videos which are on the aquaponics system so my filtration system follows the aquaponics set up which is easy for me to do, that took about 1 week.
Wow !!!!
Thanks
Can i take a screenshort from the video and use as profile pic for wahtsapp
what size pumps?
4,200 gal/hr and consume around 120watts/hr
Now that is a proper Filter for a Goi Pond. Not the overpriced Nexus.
Richard A.K.A. The Pond Guru has a massive Filtration System for his Pond. 👍😊❤️
Nexus maybe expensive but I have two nexus 300 models running on my pond since 2005 (17 years ago), lets see how this system holds up after the same amount of time.
Still going great plus all the vegetables in the spring, summer and fall
@@chu0435 oh I don't dispute that, will check back in 17 years lol
All jokes aside, this video is all about DIYer spirit, it does not matter what filtration you use expensive or not as long as keep your kois happy and healthy, cause in the end is all about the kois
Nice I love it, I'm jealous. The good way, thank you for showing appreciate it.
Thank you
What a construction! Basically you have created a natural bog filter and those cannot be beaten.
Hahaha thanks
perhaps an emergency winter cover is needed & even an aquarium heater just to keep a small area clear of ice 🤔 the thing I learned many, many years ago is we keep water & if we are successful at that, the fish take care of themselves 😊 I absolutely love the fact that you have done this yourself ❤
Thank you so much!!
Wow what a setup! fair play bud 👍
Thanks
Or how you build the pond
Sorry I don't have any video on the build
This is overkill for me but i made my version from a 200 l and 50 l barrels and the pond went from spinatch soup to almost crystal clear water in 2 weeks, I could see to the bottom in just 24 hours. Thanks!
You are welcome I am glad my design helps, the reason my system is overkill because I stock too much kois haha
Briliant
Thanks
Do you get lots of mosquitoes and bugs?
No not really
The best filter system, by far, is a RDF drum filter and a 55-gallon drum moving bed. It doesn't seem like you feed that much because the sive is so small and it can handle your bio load. I've tried this and my sive would clog up within a few hours.
Thanks!! The 55 gal drum act like a moving bed, I feed my kois once or twice a day. My sive filter collects the fish waste and sends it to another 55 gal barrel that collects it so I can use it to feed my plants
Top.... Germany...
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks
you have a very complex system..
why not post a schematic of your design.
I will soon when I do a spring clean out
You should help the youtube Chanel urben rescue ranch
damn when they mature thats going to be seriously overstocked.
I always wondered why when the japaneese mudponds in which they grow really fast in are dirty murkey unfiltered water lmao.
Yeah natural is always better
It's ghetto filter but it works!
Hahaha thanks
So basically..... there's no easy way to do this
It is easy just have to be a little creative
@@chu0435 I did it! Thanks!
Can I see your creations
@@chu0435 how ?
Most impressive I've seen.
Koi died in the winter because your pond is not deep enough and sorry to say this but u have way too many fish for the size of the pond.
Do you still have that nasty habit of saying 'ok' after everything.
why would you publish a vid with such a terrible audio????
Way to many koi
Really bad audio.