Why don't you build yourself a vegetable filter and plant watercress in it. I did it on my last pond and with the water at 27deg in the summer my water was very clear.
Hey,sorry a bit late. But how do you deal with iron deficiency? I have to turn off my uv for 1 week , else it will destroy the iron and plants won't grow. Issue is once i turn the uv.. Algae gets really tough to go when i switch it back on
@@chu0435 hey, sorry for lateness. Going to buy an iron chelate. Do you use dtpa or eddha? I've read some literature that uv breaks the chelate in the iron very quickly and it results to the iron not being available for the plants. I use a vertical tower system, and most plants are in water. When i supplement with iron edha, the iron runs out very quickly, especially with uv on. I think I'll give dtpa a shot and run with uv on. If there is some effect, maybe i will just turn the uv off for 2 days so that the plants have time to take the iron in
I will try to answer all your questions. The pond is about 5 feet deep, I have 3 (4000 gal/hour) pump that consume 140 watts each and 4 (13 watts) UV lights, it is running all day.
Hi thanks for the video, which just shows what great results you can obtain by being creative as well as being inexpensive. With your UV set up, are there any particular precautions you had to take to ensure the arrangement was safe? I have switched UV filters and have some spare bulbs I could use in a similar way in my filtration system. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for the compliment, the uv I used is a cheap $15 (13 watts) it have a safety power switch too so I anything happens it will fried the power switch and turn off
Thanks for posting. Good info. What a change. Nice job Love your falls. Nice collection. My ponds using are green in the spring but quickly clear once my filters and plants start to grow. I like looking at ponds at other places. I have 4 koi ponds in my backyard if you want to look. If not that's ok too. Take care.
in my experience this system is proportionate to the volume of water and the quantity of fish - assuming they're fed regularly. it may look complicated as it is brilliantly assembled from free materials. the same outcome would cost many, many thousands of dollars to achieve.
Thank you Sean for the compliment! You are 100% correct is about being creative with what you got and as simple as possible. My koi are fed three times a day 😀
I feed them with 16 oz cup, each feeding is 2 cups and three feeding a day. I don't do any water change the only water added to the pond is due to evaporation and I do clean out my filter once a week and that's is about 150 gal
@@jameswithers3066 once I clean out the aquaponics grow bed and turn it back on in late spring I will start to feed the koi and jump straight to the current feeding
Why don't you build yourself a vegetable filter and plant watercress in it. I did it on my last pond and with the water at 27deg in the summer my water was very clear.
I do, I plant at least one grow bed with watercress
Hey,sorry a bit late. But how do you deal with iron deficiency? I have to turn off my uv for 1 week , else it will destroy the iron and plants won't grow. Issue is once i turn the uv.. Algae gets really tough to go when i switch it back on
I added 1 spoonful of chelated iron once every two weeks
@@chu0435 with UV on I guess? 😅
Yes with the uv on, uv light should not affect your iron
@@chu0435 hey, sorry for lateness. Going to buy an iron chelate. Do you use dtpa or eddha?
I've read some literature that uv breaks the chelate in the iron very quickly and it results to the iron not being available for the plants. I use a vertical tower system, and most plants are in water. When i supplement with iron edha, the iron runs out very quickly, especially with uv on.
I think I'll give dtpa a shot and run with uv on. If there is some effect, maybe i will just turn the uv off for 2 days so that the plants have time to take the iron in
I use EDTA chelated iron, let me know how your experiment goes, DTPA will stain your water through
Rarely video, thankyou 😁👍
Thanks
What system can u explain
I will try to answer all your questions. The pond is about 5 feet deep, I have 3 (4000 gal/hour) pump that consume 140 watts each and 4 (13 watts) UV lights, it is running all day.
What is the mesh size for that sieve?
My mesh size is 150 micron
Hi thanks for the video, which just shows what great results you can obtain by being creative as well as being inexpensive. With your UV set up, are there any particular precautions you had to take to ensure the arrangement was safe? I have switched UV filters and have some spare bulbs I could use in a similar way in my filtration system. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for the compliment, the uv I used is a cheap $15 (13 watts) it have a safety power switch too so I anything happens it will fried the power switch and turn off
Can this achieve crystal clear without the sieve you added?
Yes it can because due to the aquaponics system, with the sieve filter it was faster to achieved it.
@@chu0435 but why add UV?
UV light kill the single cell algae which make then clumps together then it will get filter out by the sieve filter and the aquaponics
Thanks for posting. Good info. What a change. Nice job
Love your falls. Nice collection.
My ponds using are green in the spring but quickly clear once my filters and plants start to grow.
I like looking at ponds at other places. I have 4 koi ponds in my backyard if you want to look. If not that's ok too.
Take care.
Thanks Chris! I also love to look at other ponds too so I continue to learn and improve on the hobby
@@chu0435
Thanks.
That was very kind of you
@@chu0435
I plan on adding a few more videos shortly
Your system looks overly complicated.
in my experience this system is proportionate to the volume of water and the quantity of fish - assuming they're fed regularly. it may look complicated as it is brilliantly assembled from free materials. the same outcome would cost many, many thousands of dollars to achieve.
Thank you Sean for the compliment! You are 100% correct is about being creative with what you got and as simple as possible. My koi are fed three times a day 😀
Uv
Depth?
How many grams are you feeding per day? How much water do you change on your pond per week?
Great looking pond
I feed them with 16 oz cup, each feeding is 2 cups and three feeding a day. I don't do any water change the only water added to the pond is due to evaporation and I do clean out my filter once a week and that's is about 150 gal
The aquaponics system do most of the work
@@chu0435 very impressive. Great job
How long does it take you to build up to feeding that amount?
How much do you feed at the start of the season?
@@jameswithers3066 once I clean out the aquaponics grow bed and turn it back on in late spring I will start to feed the koi and jump straight to the current feeding
Utilities cost?
Not that expensive at all, let see I use 3 (4,200 gal/he pump) that consume 150 watts each so total for 450 watts plus 3 (13 watts) uv lights
24 hours u running?
Of course you will have to run your system 24/7