I have a 2" drain pipe in each of my chamber link to the drain, this is in place because I can chose which chamber to drain without draining all the chamber.

I just pull the 2" pvc in the settlement chamber and viola ... all the gunk is gone.

nice.. can share more picture.. this is dry pond is it? mean water below the glass panel? great way to display without having nightmare of water splashes..

That is easy maintenance.
Is your pond expose to sunlight?

The water level is about 12" below the glass panel. The pond is covered by 3 feet of glass and another 3 feet by concrete slab. It stretch deep into the living hall. More pict ah ... errr what you wanna see.

Errr ... once a month flushing of the settlement chamber will take me 15 minutes to flush and another 30 minutes to fill it back up = yeah, relatively easy.

6 month once full filter cleaning is different, it takes me aprox 1 hour to take out all the media eg. brush, bio beads to clean with high pressure jet and put it back and another 1 hour plus waiting time to fill the water back to my designated level. Quite a workout for the weekend for some.

***edit***
My pond is expose to very limited sunlight (UV). My main door is about 5 feet away to the pond and that's the only way sunlight can penetrate to the pond and my house is facing south. There are some algae build up on the pond wall but just a light green hue, nothing serious as to algae bloom and no string algae.

This post has been edited by ShadowR1: Apr 29 2013, 06:14 PM

Thats very helpful info... thanks

well, i cant imagine the pond.. so, basically what seen in the pic is only a part of the pond which is half your living hall (unseen part of pond), and half is glass with open surface?

very nice pond you have there..

it gave me great idea later if i get my hand on landed properties..

for me, koi is a bit hard to maintain but the joys of feeding it will make it worth as a hobby..

*me keeping koi in child swimming pool (plastic one buy at tesco) at my dad house.. no place and budget to have permanent pond yet..



This post has been edited by NOX: Apr 29 2013, 07:52 PM

Here a draft for you to understand better ...
Koi is not that hard to keep as a hobby provided you read tonnes of information about koi behavior, symptoms of sickness and remedy method, water parameter eg complete nitrogen cycle, maintain stable water ph / kh ect ... and I can go on and on but not to scared off anione who is tempting to have koi, its not rocket science. Trust me .

I cant be more agree with you on the part when come feeding time ... they will always have that "Oik ... mana makan" FACE ...

Wan! Half year service also DIY ah?

There some good doing it yourself, you gets to know if there is something is wrong with your pond hence the trouble if was not spotted earlier.
Some parasite might colonize your filter chamber and this could lead to an outbreak which in turns take more of your time to treat or worst ... whole pond submarine turn up side down.

1 hours not that bad la ...

Passion is the main drive i believe.
Thanks for sharing here.
I will opt for koi pond if i am prepared to do all these.

Can u show us your filter setup pictures?

Gib me some time to dig for the photo as my pond is commissioned 3+ years ago. Its a 3' x 11' in total and consist of 4 chamber.

1st vortex to collect all heavy sediment
2nd brush for fine sediment
3rd bio chamber with heavy aeration
4th coral + pump

I should have a dry chamber so that filter chamber flushing job can be made easier.

Where is your filter located?

Under the staircase.

Or you could build a courtyard like in this hartamas house.

Sri Hartamas House by JTJ Design

Here u go ....

ok...nice settings

wow~ impressive.
Thought of doing a pond too, but when it comes to filtering.
It takes alot of money to buy quality medias.
The pump itself already squeezing money out of my purse 24/7.
So i'm still pending my dream.

You are right and wrong. Generally there are two media for the filtering system, mechanical and biological.
For mechanical, those brush will last a very long time so one off purchase, if I remember correctly I bought mine at Rm12 per pcs and approx 40 of it in my brush chamber.

For biological media, I use aquaclay if i spelled it correctly but you can opt for cheaper option eg crystal bio, siporax, ceramic ring and the like. All works the same. Biological media will last for a very long time as well with periodic cleaning. (back breaking works)

Pump nowadays consume much less juice le ... this world where got free lunch la ...