Those are comeing first is building a cheap quick filter for pure water.

I feed them a mix of pond flake a fish additive and garlic mix have done for 10 years and when I had a camera in the pond a couple of years ago I watched as they took it yes some gets left behind and I take it out weekly dont do it daily as I dont like turning the air or skimmer on in the winter which makes the water colder. The pond has a 6" thick layer of insulation around it 2ft high on the outside wall which keeps the lower part of the pond at around 6 to 8c. In Japan many people feed koi well below 8°C if they are active and koi taking food emerge in spring in good health. The same applies to the UK if the koi feel the need to top up the energy reserves that they are depleting in winter running their metabolic processes such as osmoregulation, their heart and their gills. Those koi also emerge in spring in good health with no signs of any digestive problems. I would also say I have not had any parasites on my fish in over 6 years and although I have everything to treat the pond and koi I have never used any. I feel the fish start to eat early and have the ability to fight off infections more through the year. I would not feed them sinking food like a lot of keepers do. Everyone has a differant idea for the winter feeding. Some drop Micro Worms into the pond these are live food which you can grow yourself in a 2lt bottle and Vinegar Ells. The fish will take these all winter.

@@PondKoiTipsTricks 90% of your fish look like rugby balls though which would suggest that they are eating far too much than they need.

I have something coming up in a couple of weeks that will let you empty any amount of water out the pond from anyplace in the world.

Its not a torch its a small pond light

I hope so! I have never seen in for 60 years

I always put flake in with garlic through the winter I do have four fish that take some of it.

The skimmer takes the food out I dont remove my food that quickly as at this time of year its sprayed with garlic which is good for the fish.

Yes its been a battle all year with wind rain and now snow and ice what a year

Yes Im also looking at the possibility of useing just the Nitrate filter on an equirium

Well my ideas are simple make things as cheap as possible that work.

Yes thats true that is why I have been thinking of a small greenhouse one. However someone mentioned a disk heater they are the size of a dessktop speaker and produce 400w of power may be an idea also I have seen some reflective tarp which also may work.

it goes inside the 3x filter for tap to pond or in my case 2x filter from small pump I will put in the pond to inlet on filter and out the other side into the pond.

It does not have a brand at the moment I found it on a german site and managed to get hold of one to try to see if it works if it does when it goes into production I will get more and give information on where they can be purchased.

NO I found that rubbing rubbers with sudocrem is best as it protects through the winter.

@@PondKoiTipsTricks I see , ok. Where I live we have no winter. But good to know that works in cold locations to protect .

Yes the whole unit with filters is £49 from finerfilters.co.uk

I have been looking at building a small polytunnel over the pond and putting in a small greenhouse heater this should cost around £2 a week to run as the pollytunel will hold the heat in I may build this in the next few weeks.

well it depends on your water quality i change mine when the first one turns brown a set of 10" filters are around £11

Im at the moment looking at the best place to buy them and the lowest price I can find I will be doing a review of 2 systems.

I have too last year my pond dropped to -8

My koi are fussy they only like warburtons whole meal.

put another pump in

Yes I will be getting my hands on a german filter soon which takes all chlorine out of hte water or so it says

@@PondKoiTipsTricks good because straight out of the tap is deadly for fish.

Yes I did a test on that and found it was a little higher without the inline filter however with the inline filter on it did drop but when it rained it went up again. So the filter made very little differance.

must be 5 weeks ago

yes getting cold now and dark nights

thats true and verry unhelpfull took me an hour to get past police on door

3% i found best

Thanks

water tests are all fine I have used aqua food and Hikari they just wont touch it spit it out.

Yes non stop rain day after day even the water out of the taps is poor.

At first they all looked the same however I went for Extra Select Premium because I noticed it had wheat flour in it same as brown bread.

Yes the water quality is fine my problem is seagulls get hundreds of them flying over through the day the odd one sometimes drops down and circles the pond also 1 mile from big nature park and get visits from herons at least once a week. However I have a video in the next few days on how to stop them.

Yes I do give them Silkworm Pupae they dont like them , River Shrimp same again wont touch them , Calci Worms and meal worms they eat fine.

@@PondKoiTipsTricks Mine don't like the silkworm pupae much. Mealworms and freshwater shrimp (both small and large) they devour.

well I have found it works small amounts through the winter and none in the spring and summer in one of my filter bays I grow cucumbers 10 ml pea gravel in a container 3 seeds drop it into the filter bay and off they go it must be the Nitrogen in the water. May extend it next year making a bigger filter and adding tomatoes see how they do.

What treatments do you do over the winter. What dosage?

Yes I have been looking at the idea of a woffal filter inside the pipe which would split the water into 4 flows making it full of more oxygen still working on how to make one.

You can use 6% but half it I keep to 3% in case I forget to half the 6%.