Sleepers koi pond build - Multibay refurbished and disaster in the filter house
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very good job the only mistake made was the multi bay is not pressurized as such needed to be higher. pipe work is a pain. very nice job. another option reseal the grey box put a bulkhead higher up. it all gets complicated some times. love your videos
Hi very old video but thank you for watching. Pond and system have changed now. Appreciate you watching.
Although 2 UV’s cost a little more to run, I feel it is worth the extra. Like yourself I introduced a second UV (an amalgam 40 watt submersible) into the inlet side of my filter system last year to complement the TMC 30 watt UV on the outlet side of the moving bed. The amalgam kills the algae that comes in to the vortex direct from the pond. Since the amalgam lamps are so powerful, it also helps to kill bad bacteria that gets wrapped up in the vortex. In the event any remaining algae gets past the 2 still beds and through the moving bed the the TMC UV kills that off before the water is fed through an upward flow filter that contains mountain tree lotus root that is submerged. The clarity of the pond water is superb. Having said that, I need to pressure wash the Japanese matting in the vortex twice a week now the fish are feeding heavily. I am sure the system you have in place will work as soon as the bacteria has had time to colonise all the media you now have in place. Great work and hopefully your stress levels can now come down as you relax and view your lovely Koi👍👍
Hi Alex, you have a fantastic system. I did think about the amalgame UV when I had the sieve and put it directly in there, like Gary and Beth Parker have. But in the end I got rid of the sieve.
I do like where you have put the mountain tree. Always loved your pond and set up. And that bridge is just fantastic. Love it.
Like the filter bay Lau they work and gives you a hands on filter something that's lost with a drum have to say i could see the cockup coming but way to late to say so now. But you nailed it and help is always on hand from the channel people on hear as you know. Happy ponding
Thank you Martyn. Yes I love having my hands on the filters. Love it. I knew you would say that about the cock up. We almost called you Saturday night when the flooding started.. but it was almost 10pm and I just shut down the whole system as that's all I could do. I was fearing the back pressure, so I immediately realised what was happening when the water stopped rising What a weekend!!
Thanks for the mention, you ended up with a better system in the end. Time to enjoy the fish.
Thank you Martin. Yes better in the end. But what a weekend ☺️
Sorry I jumped in before watching all the video..lol ...you could have had easy pod and moving bed filter going into the multi bay and return from multi bay back to the pond.
Hi Vince. Unfortunately I couldnt as the Eazy Pod is running in 5000 litres and hour and that specific Multibay is a 3000 litres per hour. But I could have done Eazy Pod and split to Multibay and moving bed.
You certainly are a grafter👍. Really impressed with what you’ve done so you should be really proud of what you’ve achieved. Sit back and enjoy your achievements for a while🐟🈲😊👍
Aww thank you Phil. Hopefully it will be good enough for the pond. Time will tell 🙂
You poor thing! You must be absolutely exhausted! These ponds are going to be the end of us all one day! Lolololol great video once again, get some rest!
Thank you Stephan. Yeah it was a bit of a hard weekend.. but got there in the end. All good now. And thank you for the kind comment.
Hi Lau, what a great set up you have there. Lots of work you have done to get it looking how it is. Take a bow, for all your efforts and hard work. Look forward to seeing your vlogs. Thanks for sharing 👍🐟
Thank you George, your comment means a lot.
Love your profile picture!
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Thanks for the reply 👍
Hi, great Heath Robinson system that will work great, you deserve a medal from your fish for all the effort and care. Just an idea for safety, more blocks under the multi bay after the vortex. All the best 👍
Thank you for the advise. I will double up the bricks.
A lot of hard work leads to a successful filter set up and happy fish. Well done and well worth all the time you put into it. Cheers.
Thank you. That's very kind. I have done a few modifications of media since, and it's working really great. I do like a Multibay despite the maintenance involved.
Better slabbing than me 😂 really coming on well and great to finally get a proper bit of sun. Double UV is a great way to go, my water has really cleared up with the install of my 110watt UV Pond Pro ! Multi bay is awesome, a neighbour has one running and water is perfect !
Alot of hard work gone in to getting that up and running. We'll done. You've got an amount of filtration for your pond now. It's good to see you better than I am at fitting pipework. I always seem to have some leaks 🤣
Ah thank you Danny. Pipework is ok, I just didn't think about the back pressure 🙄
Hopefully the filtration system.will be good enough.
Fantastic job and what a work horse you are ,felt gutted for you when things did not work out but look how wonderful it works now you must be chuffed all your hard work has paid off x
Thank you Katrina. It was a bit crazy Friday night... But got there over the weekend. I am quite pleased now. Thank you for watching.
Better slabbing than me 😂 really coming on well and great to finally get a proper bit of sun. Double UV is a great way to go, my water has really cleared up with the install of my 110watt UV Pond Pro ! Multi bay is awesome, a neighbour has one running and water is perfect ! Don’t worry about the “disaster”, I’m sure I have had a lot more disasters 🙂
Hi Joshua. How are you. Glad you installed the big UV and it has cleared already. I was surprised, i could see a difference after 24h.
It was quite chaotic Friday night with the flooding! I am so so glad I didn't have wooden floor!
Loving the multi bay mate and love the media set up 👌 I sometimes grow water mint in the pond it really grows well and smells gorgeous
Hi Leon. Thank you, media is the correct order and full of colours 😁 I bought some water mint, it's in one of the baskets. I can see a few flowers coming up on it.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection yes and having the lotus root and spiral matt makes it even better 👌
Good job in the end lau,all looking great now great filter set up ,let’s hope the uv clears that horrible green out the pond ,we’re all in the same boat ,Jeff is good guy has me in stitches all the time 😂👍🏻
The water has definitely cleared. I am super impressed.
Really good work 😎👍🏻 cracking pond and set up. And thanks for that little tip using a kitchen mixer for the clay. Worked a treat with zero lumps 😃👍🏻
Hi Alex. Thank you for the kind comment. I am getting there.
Glad the kitchen mixer works 😊
Great video and thanks for sharing all your experiences both good and bad. 🎊👍🎉
Real videos 😃 I share the good and the bad 😃
Pretty amazing Lau..
I wasn't able to respond to your kind words as it wouldn't allow me to.
I love your filtration system.
I have to reset my notification as I did not get this one..
Haha there is always something we need to buy or fix.. You have some pretty mad skills.. You are welcome to help me out
Aww thank you Chris, doing my best, learning as I build... And yes, money and time seems to go just on the pond at the moment! But I knew it would be like that :-) You dont need my help, what you create is superbe :-)
Great video Lau, you can feel your frustration when up against it.
Haha yeah i probably was not in the best moods Friday night... But hey... Live and learn 😁
Thank you for your kind comment.
clever lady keep it up
Thank you Tony. A but of an old video but I really appreciate.
Well done Lau, it's very stressful when things go wrong, but you over came, and succeeded, great filtration system, I also have a huge multibay and after seeing what you have done I might change my moving bed in the last chamber and add a plastic container, make that a moving bed but this would have to sit outside my small filter house, not sure, will have to protect from the weather, I have also got my tempest up and running so pleased with it, it looks similar to yours boxed it in on to the top of pond wall feeding from my wall skimmer back to the old return amazing results. Great video.
Thank you Scott for the kind message. Yes moving bed at the end is always recommended. I thought about putting mine outside but as the whole lot went pear shape and I redid it all, I managed to keep in inside. You can always put insulation around the moving bed and box it in for protection and esthetic. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated
Hi Lau, Wow! that was a lot of work, but you got there in the end. Well done. Sit back and enjoy it all now. Take care, Terry.
Still so much work to do Terry. But it's now all working and I can finish the filter house and everything around the pond. It's only been 2 months, but it's all up and running :-) Your videos have helped a lot when I was doing lots of research
Its all been worth it Lau, your looking good now. Sit back and take a break now, you've earn't it. Take care, Terry.
Good work my friend, you solved the situation very fast and good. Well done. I sm looking forward for the rest of the mowing bed build. Working on one myself.
Just adding media gradually at the moment :-)
Fantastic job, you should be very proud.
Thank you, that's very kind. I am just reassured that everything is working perfectly now :-) Relieved. :-)
Hiya, cracking job there Lau. Great multi bay you've got there, looks great and nailed the install at the end. I would love to do something similar to your set up but my space is real limited so I've had to look at an alternative for the future🤔👍. I think I'll see how my bay changes get on this year so I'm not messing the filters around too much apart from cleaning then see if it needs a re-think for next season or not?? 😉👍
Hi, nice to have you on board. I did mention you 🙂 your system is good, isn't it? Your Multibay is large, mine is only a 5000. What did you have in mind?
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I'm looking at space and where I can intro another filter but going to run what I have for the time being to see if the changes I made over winter work first? 😉👍
@@KoiPondLifestyle yeah it makes sense.
Nice looking pond and set up 👍
Thank you. All working now so quite pleased.
Just built my own new pond as I'm moving house, made several expensive mistakes on the pipe work but its working now. Just going through a nitrate spike. Still to move my larger koi all 4 of them from the old pond. Keep on ponding it will soon be time to just put your feet up and watch the fish.
Hi Sim, thank you for the comment. Yes mistake on the pipework did cost a bit this time .. but I can't complain so far, everything has been good. I had a bit of nitrate too recently. But the new.pond syndrome didn't last luckily so nitrate is close to 0 again. Hope the move goes ok and the koi are ok too when you move them. Keep me updated. I am genuinely interested
Great video sent over by Derby Koi 👍👍
Thank you for coming in board and thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated
Great addition to your pond wish I had the space but but its only a small shed have mite be able to fit a small barrel moving bed in there but haven't a clue how to fit it up from easy pod and and use a 3 way flow valve to send some of water to water blade . Stay safe
Hi Carol, Thank you for your kind comment. I am sure your husband would be able to adjust something?
All you need is a splitter after the easy pod, 1 goes to the blade and 1 goes to the moving bed.
Well done great channel it seems everyone is up grading
Thank you Dave. Much appreciated
素晴らしい濾過システムですね。池の数量も多くて素晴らしい池ですね😄グッド👍
If somebody can read this and translate in English or French, it would be cool 😃
Wow, congratulations on your work you've done. 👍👍💪💪👌👌
Thank you. Got there in the end 😊
It’s looking good Lau,🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖
Thank you Terrence. Quite pleased now, better system and all working ☺️
Looking fantastic now lau but please be careful using a wheelie bin as they deteriate over time I used one many many moons ago it split on the corner. Peter has sadly past away not so long ago a very big lose to the koi world I'm honoured to have known him and work with him when I was trialling his prototype Eric 1 filter some 8yrs ago and multi bay's are still cracking filters if you don't mind the time it takes to clean them properly I no longer use one as I'm now riddled with arthritis 😢
Yeah it was sad when he died. Two of the people I wanted to meet (Peter and Mark Gardner) died respectively last year and this year. Both great koi men. I was lucky to speak to Waddy two years ago. But he want d me to get the Epic and not the multibay ☺️ but I couldn't afford it..
Precious memories you have there ..
Sorry to hear you are suffering, keep active and hopefully the sun and warmth will help a bit.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection oh yes the sun helps but also causes its own problems too there is just no winning lol oh yes the memories of 3 hr phone calls about filters and fish good times before the arthritis got bad I was running the Eric 1 prototype on the bottom drain and a compact Eric on the skimmer line both filters are now running my best friends pond
Great job lau, you've got some good filtration now, I need to finish my slabs so I'll pick you up the weekend 😂. Keep up the good work 👍
Haha yeah right! Nah, i'll pass on the slabs work haha
Thank you for the comment. Hopefully it should be good now.
Just stumbled on your video today and am amazed at the superb job you did and most of all with the last minute improvisations. If you are like me once facing a problem I spend half the night working it in my head and have a solution by the early morning. Again you deserve the Koi Medal Keeper for your work. BTW how is the Multibay working out?
Hi James, firstly, thank you for the kind comment. And yes, absolutely, things work by themselves in my head, generally during the night, and in the morning I just do 😀
The multibay is working perfectly. There has been some changes of media and improvement made along the way. It's an old fashion filter system, but still so widely used everywhere in the world. After all, the new nexus are just a multibay wrapped around itself.
Thank you for watching the early videos.
Can you come and fix my filter 😂? Great video and I’m sure your water will sparkle. Stay safe and well 👍🏻
Thank you Steven. Are you sure after the big mistake I made? 😁😁
Hopefully the water will be good quality and clarity.
Oops!! 😀
I wouldn't bother with the easypod now you have the multi bay, as it will work so much better. You know I have one and wouldn't swap it for a pod 👍
Personally, I would have had the UV after the filter, but it should still work OK.
Now rest, relax, enjoy your pond and think about how you're going to install a bottom drain 😇
Haha no bottom drain. If you ask me to dig again, I think I'll cry 🤣🤣
The multi bay is not big enough for the pond. I have to say, I am slightly disappointed in the eazypod..
Yeah I know you like your Multibay. Hope you are getting on ok with your rebuild.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection LOL I always wanted an Easy Pod when I was starting to build my pond 2 years ago, but I had the multi-bay sitting in my garden un-used and it fitted perfectly. It's never given me any issues in the 20 years I've had it. We're still on track to upgrade our pond next month, just getting everything in place beforehand. The window has arrived, as has all of the pipe work. Just need to order sand and cement for the concrete base. Fibre glassing is scheduled for August. Stay safe 👍
@@CBersPond Nice! Are you going bigger too? I really liked the way you built your sleepers pond. It was cool with the decking. Cant wait to see the updates. Stay safe
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection No, keeping it the same size, but may be a bit deeper. You mentioned the size of your pond in your last video and it's almost the same size as mine, just slightly wider.
Lau I heard you saying you wished you had a solid roof so the light doesn’t effect the pond ,could you not just stick some reflective foil or something like that to the roof to stop it hitting the pond directly,just an idea 💡👍🏻
Hi, thank you for the suggestion. It's a nice idea. Not too sure how it would be for the winter. That's my problem at the moment. I'll keep your idea in mind though.
Very impressive Lau, you are a very determined and smart Lady. Looks great, keep up the good work. You're not related to Wrighty are you?
Thank you Robert. Wish I was related to Wrighty!! I would have learnt a lot, a lot sooner 😂 thank you for the kind comment. Much appreciated
Nice one lau got there in the end, gonna be a great system I reckon. Cheers 👍
Thank you Richard. What a crazy weekend. Yes hopefully should be very good for this pond.
Nice job lau,
Thank you Rex. I am happy now 😊
Just subscribe you work hard good to see multi Bay these high end filters on market now to me over rated can't beat multi Bay hands on filter like martyn says I use 8 Bay system on 6500 gallon pond water is gin clear good luck with rest of the work doing great job 👍
Thank you Dave for subscribing and for the comment. Always liked the multibays. And for some reasons, I enjoy cleaning the filters. I feel it so part of the pond life. All the time I am physically capable, want to keep it like that ☺️
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection lol am the same love cleaning mine to keep up great work and good luck with everything 👍
@@davecooke914 thank you Dave.
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Thank you.
I ment you could have connected the other filters to the multi bay and then multi bay into pond . But looks ok how you have it now . Take care
What size are the drainage waste outlets from the multibay please
Hi, the two outlets are 50mm waste pipe.
Hows the multi bay going to empty. Shouldn't it be the same hight as the outlet
Hi Vince. What do you mean by empty? To the pond or waste for cleaning?
The multi bay is running and there are two return to the pond. Waste, there are 3 waste outlets.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection hi it's ok when I was watching your video and you said you was going to connect the multi bay out pipe to the bottom of the moving bay , which was higher than your multi bay . But you have sorted it now so no worries.
Sorry if I confused you....lol
What uv are you using attached to your multi bay .
Hi, the UV on the Multibay is a 25w which is switch off for the winter. Only the 18w on the EazyPod is on for the winter.
Nice one looks great. Was shouting at the video saying “the multi bay is too low the moving bed will back fill it” as we have talk before I do love the old school filters. Well done you got there. Media for the moving bed? What have you though of putting in there?
Hi Gary. Nice to hear from you. Hope you are all ok. Yeah, I was fearing the back pressure too... and it happened haha. I wasn't laughing though Friday night. Expensive mistake, live and learn 😁
For the media, at the moment I am thinking about K1+ as I have a full bag of it. Either that or I will need to buy the Hel-x 13 as it's most probably the best for a moving bed.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I got the k+ to do mine via the internet and it was one of the contaminated bags with swarf in it and had a second bag sent which was the same so wish I had gone for the hel-x 13 as not a lot in the price
@@garymiles8095 the Hel-x 13 is bigger media. Ideally, a bed to Hel-x 13 followed by another bed of K+ is fantastic. But only got room for 1 bed. And I already have the K+.
Great video, slabs look amazing! May I ask what is the advantage of having the filter matting vertical rather than horizontal?
Hi George, thank you for watching and for the comment. The mountain tree 3D mat is very hard, the bacteria colonise the whole, regardless of the position despite the flow of the water in the Multibay. So it's biological media, not mechanical. There is an air stone underneath which oxygens better when vertical as it goes in all the pieces of mat. Hope this helps.
How much for kocney filter ?
I bought it second hand on Gumtree. And then I refurbished it as you can see on the video.
I’ve just got myself a multibay same as yours I’m trying to change the vortex waste outlet tank connector but struggling to undo it did you change all of yours if so how did you undo them? Thank in advance.
Hi Jamie, the vortex inlet or outlet? I had to cut mine and all the others with a saw and started from scratch again.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection
It is the waste outlet on the bottom of the vortex I have tried everything to undo it I might have to do what you did saw it off I only have a problem with that one as the other 2 are fine. I’ve not got it connected yet as it will be for my new build what I’m doing.
@@jamieskoipond yeah same here. 2 of them were ok but one was bad. I decided to cut the whole lot off and have all the outlets new and matching. When you change your tank connectors, make sure you put the rubber seals on the outside so you don't get any leaks.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I will do thanks so much for you advice and I do enjoy watching your channel I will be uploading more content when I start my new build. Thanks again.
@@jamieskoipond thank you for the kind comment. If you are really struggling with the multibay, you can always email me. My email address is in the bio
Hi where did you buy your mountain tree media from I can’t buy it anywhere
Hi, I bought the Mountain tree skimmer, Lotus Root and spiral 3D mat from iKoi in Italy. There are no rep in the UK for Mountain Tree. You can either buy it via the German rep or via iKoi in Italy. I have sent iKoi a few customers now. But there are custom taxes to pay due to Brexit. If you really want some, you can contact me via messenger (Facebook) I am under Lau Magro-Ford. I will explain better then.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection thank you I will get In touch with you soon as in the progress of start new pond project
Sorry, but a bigger UV light ain't gonna help for your problem. the new multibay is. as you say the water is clear so every algae that float in the water is dead. the UV doesn't reach the pond walls/buttom. the reason these algae grow is that too many nutrients in the water. the multibay with a bigger bio not mechanical will help get rid of access nutritions.
Hi, thanks for your message. This video is 11 months old.. if you watch recent videos, you will see that the system has not changed, just the media, and the water parameters are almost perfect, the water clarity is always commented on my videos. Fish are healthy and growing. All is perfect 😊
Good lady would you like to adopt me HA she is a clever lady
Haha adopt you??🤣