EazyPod Problems - Is it time to rebuild? 

Hi Atsumi. Interesting information. Thank you. But you know, I cannot feed like I was last summer. The temperatures and weather have been terrible here all July. I just hope that August is going to be ok. But my pond only stayed at 22 degrees for about two weeks. Otherwise, all July it has been between 18 and 19 at the most. So not great feeding season so far.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Thank you. As you know, I lived in the UK, so I understand that. So if you are equipped with a heating system, it is my opinion that now is the right time to get it up and running. Well, one goal is to build up enough strength and physique to allow them to spend the winter without heating. This would be cost-effective and advantageous for the KOI.

​​@@atsuminaoki9910that's right, but this year has been the worst so far. Just no warmth. I am glad you visited last year and not this year. At least you have a good summer in Japan so far I hear. My friends are an hour from Tokyo and they are hot! Can't heat this year, but next year the koi will get the full benefit of the heat all spring, summer until end of autumn 😊

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection In any case, the fate of the promising SHOWA is how the eggs can be absorbed into the body without being carried over from this summer to autumn. If she get through this, it will be on the way to becoming jumbo KOI!

​​@@atsuminaoki9910absolutely, I totally agree with you. I feel she is missing out on the feeding this year. Which is a shame as she is nisai. But honestly, I can't do anything until next year. I am monitoring her egg absorption/situation. One thing is sure, she won't be close to 60cm in autumn as I would have hoped. But again, that's because I am not heated. Next year. 😊

Hi Alan, how are you? Yeah I am just looking forward to when I can put the fish in the new pond. Not looking forward to the mess and building. Although I am not building it this time 😁

Thank you for watching. Same here, not too much the rebuilding but putting the fish in the new pond.

Hi Ken, hope you are well. Pond first, then we will see what we can do with the garden. I have sort of an idea, but Rachel is very English in that sense where square or long gardens are flat with just borders on the side. I am the opposite, so it's a tough one regarding the garden. Thank you for watching

Hi Dave, hope so. It will be fine. I'll be there with my whip if the builders don't behave 😂

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection good for lau look forward to seeing the build 👍

I guess it's summer. More food 😁 Thank you for watching. Appreciated

Hi, that's good to hear about your cleaning method. My biggest problem is that the gap between the top of the eazypod and the ceiling of the filter house is not very big. But I now just spray the inside column after the first boil. They are good piece of kit and has done me good the past 3 years, I guess all filtration system have got their flaws

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection the bamboo Caine doesn’t need to be long,just long enough to reach the base of the pod and enough left over for you to have a good grip on it. When both my nexus and pod have finished cleaning and are running again you can see the bases are clear of dirt. Also back washing helps a lot with both(pulling the cleaning pipe out while the waste is open to allow water to flush the opposite way)

@@redspud1293 brilliant, thank you.

Haha you did indeed.. and yeah, it is time... Thank you for watching Mark. Hope all is well your end.

Hi, glad you are enjoying it. Thanks for watching and subscribing. Much appreciated

Hey, how are you doing my man? I've left you a message on one of your videos to say that the comments were turned off on the video where you repair the main pond.

Yeah long video for me... Glad you got to the end 😀 thank you for watching and commenting

Ah fantastic. Great news.

Thanks Ad. It is, just not looking forward to the mess for weeks . But hey 😉 hope you are well.

Hi, thank you for watching. Have you got an eazypod too?

Thank you Cesca. The beauty of it is, I won't be doing the work this time 😂😂 Hope you two are well.

Hi Terry . Looking forward to your next video - it`s been a while . Did you manage to sort out your issues from last time , with the fish being out of sorts ?

Hi mate, I hope Lau doesn't mind me answering comments on her channel. It has been a while mate, but I've not been doing much that's very interesting. I have been helping my son (who's a builder) as the weather has put him a bit behind, but I must admit, a good days work knackers me out these days lol. I also mended my fence that had 2 broken posts, but apart from that, the weather has been rubbish here for doing anything. I'm still getting the odd flick from my koi, so I'm leaving them for a while to re-coup, then I'll have another go at it. Thanks mate, Terry.

@@Wrighty 😆Thanks . I know it was a bit cheeky , but hope Lau wont mind . Looking forward to the next update . Take it easy with those fence posts . I managed to put an 8 footer in upside down the other week . Getting it back out of the hole nearly finished me off 🤣

Lau's great mate, she'll be fine. I hope lol,

Hi Terry. Ah brilliant, hope the mealworms were ok. Yeah the routine maintenance on the drum will be fine, it will be so much easier and better overall with the drum. And gravity fed, no more poo being chopped off by the pumps. I am pretty sure that the saki hikari is part of the problem. I do have to clean it that way twice a year, but this year, I have fed more saki hikari than last year and it has got worse. Thank you for watching as always my friend.

Oh no. Sorry to hear that. I think I just found why. 2 reasons, I will explain in another video. Bacterial infection?

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection can’t wait.

I am on it now 😁 temperatures are rubbish here this summer, so it's a tough one this year.

Thank you. Looking forward to it but also a bit apprehensive. I am sure it will come together at the end 😊 thanks for watching and commenting. Always appreciated

Yeah I saw your short. Where did that come from? Hope no damage to the pond and fish.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection damage to property. Lost a few trees and gardens are shredded.. ponds were a mess . But fish are fine

@@stubbsaquatics6080 oh no that's not good at all with the property. I am really sorry to read this.

Thank you Shaun, that's kind of you. Thanks for commenting, really appreciated

I won't be doing it 😂 I will have my feet up until the pipe work, the rood and filter house 😊

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection if you need any help..... I'm happy to come and put my feet up too lol

@@DerbyKoi hahaha that really made me laugh. I'll call you then, and we can have some Pina colada in the sun while they are working 🤣🤣

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection my kind of holiday 😋

@@DerbyKoi yep, french food, animals, sun, Pina colada, Friends and koi 😘

Yeah, I am pretty sure that the saki hikari food is responsible for it... But also, small body of water and the fish have grown... Pump fed, poo gets chopped by the impellers. . Thanks for watching Chris.

Thanks Scott. As always, thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you are well.

I have, totally jinxed it after that video 😂. And thank you Dave, that's super kind of you. Oh I hate the whole process of the building. Absolutely hate it. So won't be building it this time 🤣 Let alone moving the fish, that is not great but needs must. I just can't wait seeing them swim in a larger and heated pond 😊

Thank you John, much appreciated

Hi Simon, I did think about getting a nexus, but was restricted by the height in the filter house. And no point changing the filter house now being less than a year before the rebuild. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated

Hi Carol, how are you? How are the fish. I can't wait either, especially as I won't be doing the work 😂

Fish doing ok I'm doing good roll on summer @@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection

@@carollycett1329 gosh yeah, what is this summer all about?!

Hi, and thank you for watching. That's great about your build. So what are you going for?

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I don’t have a massive space but I’m going to stretch it 😂 it’s very sunny where it’s going so I’ll be building a pergola above it and maybe add some vines on top haven’t decided that exactly .. I’ll be doing it solo.. seeing your window really makes me want to try it but I’m pretty nervous about it

Hi, regarding the vine, keep in mind that when the leaves fall, it will be everywhere. But most importantly, when you have the flowers of the grapes, or grapes themselves, that will go everywhere and the dried little flowers will leave a mess. If you watch Sid in Canada from Koi Run, he has grape vine above his pond. He explains. For the window, don't be nervous. Mine is not big. That was my first pond I build, and providing you get the right thickness of glass and put the 'glue' bead correctly, you will be fine. Also I would advise to sandwich the liner between the walls (whatever you use - bricks or sleepers) and the glass. In my early video, I shown how I did it. And there are other videos on RU-vid, but I wouldn't advise to glue the liner on the glass. Keep in mind that the glue/silicone, whatever you want to call it, doesn't stick in cheap plastic liners, but only on rubber liners. If you got with fiberglass, then you won't have any problems anyway.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I didn’t think about the flowers on a vine.. ur right I’ll scrap the vine idea.. I’ll think of something else to use. I’ll be using a epdm liner.. I’ve started the framing of the build with wood.. I’ll check out more videos on the window.. absolutely love your channel..

@@MonicaTorresphilly thank you, that's very kind of you to say that. If you are only concerned about the full sun in summer, the. I would suggest a sail, this way you have some shade on part of the pond in summer, and the. You can remove it for the other reasons.

Thanks Magnus, you just need to come to England so you can build my filter house 😀

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection that would be fun! My current setup has taken 6 years already and is not finished yet. Would be very expensive 🤣🤣. However every time I see your roof construction my subconsious me think you need help to rebuilt properly. That would take less than a week.🙂👍

​@@greenmachinesweden yep, I am not a builder 🤣 did my best and I had never done anything like it before. But the new filter house will be different, and not felt but rubber.

Thank you. I really appreciate that. Kind of you. I won't be at Newark as I am away that weekend. But I'll be at the Kent show on the Saturday. May be see you there?

@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection u see me they last time give you my business card same as my RU-vid don't no if we be they this year as we wait on little one to pop out but you never kown x

Thanks Andrew, yes everything will be easier and most probably better. If anything, a bigger environment for the koi. Thank you for commenting

Hi Steve, thank you for watching and commenting. I will have a look. It will be a bigger drum here, with a double bio chamber. No point changing anything right now, so close to the rebuild. But yeah, I can imagine that a drum is a game changer.

Absolutely right, I couldn't remember exactly how much it will be. Bigger than I thought... Ouch, the water bill is going to take a hit .. Hope you are well and all is well your end.

Hi Martyn, I can honestly say that I never disliked cleaning the filters. I actually enjoy that part. But definitely a drum followed by two bio chambers is the way I will go. Have a nice week Martyn.

Oh gosh, so you are almost there. Fantastic. Exciting times. Yes the weather has slow down a lot of people who were building. Even us down the south, we've had some weird temps. Some very good sunny days but not warm at all.

Evening LAU I’ll send you a few pics of we’re I’m upto on pm

@@baitking1 just received them. Thank you for sending those. It looks really nice. Really like it.

Exciting time to watch you work and not me doing it haha 😂

Hi Si. So I started using it just a year ago, when I had all the problems with the tap water (metals). I use it weekly without a fail. Within 3 weeks of using it, none of the fish were flashing anymore and it's been like that ever since. Despite the level of metals in my tap water. It's very bad here for copper, iron, aluminium and zinc. So it worked for me and I know it has worked for a lot of people. It's expensive, but so nice to see the fish not going mad after each water change. It has also helped my nitrite to stay very low, unlike last year when all my nitrite readings were through the roof.

@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection that's very interesting that you mention the Nitrite Lau. Since I started using it, my Nitrite has been the best it has ever been too🤔👌

@@UpNorthKoiPond that's great. I saw a change within 3 weeks, then wasn't sure if it was necessary to carry on but I stuck to it as I know it's an ongoing problem here with metals. And it takes a long time to be fully into the system as such. But the more I speak to people who show, the more I realised that so many people were using it.

Thanks Richard as always

Hey Mike. Yes despite not feeding as much as I would like to, they are growing and getting wider. It's nice to see.

Hi Darren, so on this pond there are 4 separate systems of filtration. None of them are connected. Eazypod (mechanical only) to the bio chamber (75 litres of K+ and 10 litres of ecochips). Then pressure filter to prefilter the multibay which itself is mechanical with the vortex and the brushes and the chamber of sponges, 2 chamber of 20 litres each of Hel-X 13, followed by the chamber of Jap mat and ceramic media. On the other side of the pond, 2 separate system again, skimmer goes to tempest which goes into a protein skimmer (tornado 3) Then, separately, an Oase pressure filter (mechanical) going to the shower (3 tiers of BioHome media, CSM ceramic media). It's a massive amount of filtration for a little pond 🙂

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection , ok , all i am saying is the pressure filtrs will let through fines if the pump rate is to high for them , hence why i would go for the biggest one i can get , the oase ones are top class and would recommend them , just go big , as you say they are used as pre filters which is great , it is just the flow through them maybe to much , hence the fines you are getting in the multi bay all the time ,

@@darrenfrost5775 it's a 6000 litres an hour, around 3000 litres an hour is going through it. It had to be tuned to the multibay max flow rate. But I won't change it now as I am rebuilding next year.

Hi, I am waiting on Mike Hughes (ex Queni Koi) who is opening a large place. He is testing some drums from Germany. So I am not 100% just yet. Protein skimmer is doing a great job but in my case, it needs a better filtration before. Too much stuff go through the Tempest (which is best as polisher). I clean the protein skimmer twice a year. A right pain as I have to take out all the media and clean it by hand. But if I had a better filtration before that, it would be better.

Haha your message has really made me giggled. If I say to Rachel that we will extend again in a few years time, I will get shot, for sure... 😂

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Same here . After 3 builds , I've maxed out my available space and my wife's patience 🤣

@@hippo5346 🤣🤣 yeah I can imagine

Haha, you are so funny. Definitely won't be as big as Lee's. In theory, march next year. No, I am not touching the brick work and fiberglass. But definitely doing the roof and filter house. And some pipe work which I love.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I could come and help you with the pipework. I'll labour for you and you can teach me.

Absolutely, really bad temps this summer in England. Last year I had to put a sail inside the pond as pond was going above 26 degrees.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection such strange weather. It’s 22-25c here middle of winter. Not much snow for snow boarding. Love your carnivores plants and even got an Australian Albany pitcher plant in your collection.

@@rowdywombatadventures8755 wow. Where are you located? We had a fantastic June, but since then, it's been rubbish.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I’m in Shellharbour NSW south of Sydney.

@@rowdywombatadventures8755 fantastic. How does it work with koi in Australia? I hear you are somehow limited due to the import?

Hi, I would never feed my fish with sticks 😊 and definitely not Hikari. I do my own mix of ProBites and Saki Hikari as I explained at the beginning of the video. Hikari is a different brand. What you saw at this end is high quality calci worm, twice a week.

Hi Carlos, thank you for watching. I built this pond by myself almost 3 years ago, just in 6 weeks. But the next one will be much bigger but bricks, but builders will be doing the job. I will build the roof, the filter house, do some pipe work as I love that, and the garden. I am not doing the brick work and the fiberglass. But I definitely need to rebuild, the fish are getting large and the new one will much better 😀

Next pond will be more manageable. Drains and drum is the way. Good luck also if you can build the pond so you can reverse the flow with opposite returns for even growing. I had an easy pod as a mechanical stage for a couple of years and it does take alot of cleaning but works better for clarity when blocked . But a nice drum and a big bio will be perfect.

@sdn1528 hi, it's a pump fed system. Retro bottom drain but the pump is outside the pond.

Thanks Paul for watching. Much appreciated

🤣🤣 Dean! 🤣🤣 You so made me laugh with that one.

Hi, two separate systems, they are not connected. The pond is high, so the mutibay would have to be above the eazypod, go gravity into the eazypod which in turns gravity back into the pond. Just impossible. Also different flow, the eazypod optimum is 6000 l/hours, the multibay is 3000 l/hour.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I see your problem, it's a pity ye can't have a two an half to three inch Syphon from the pond to a round bin full of brushes, then pumped through the Easypod, just to ease load. I know what you mean with em blocking up fast.

@@lifearoundthekoipond2283 yeah I did think originally about the cyclone Syphon, but the pipe were not high enough. But it's fine, I honestly believe Saki Hikari plays a major part in this. Never had that problem last year when my mix was 75% Probites 25% saki hikari. Yet I was feeding more compared to this summer. In 8 months time, the rebuild, and things will be different 😁

Hi, so your eazypod is mechanical and your two vortexes are bio chambers? Pond are so different from one to another. I have 125 litres of plastic media and ceramic media in the last chamber + 3 tier in the shower. A lot of bio. A few people have got the same thing with eazypod, it's not new, and being pump fed, everything gets chopped off. But it's good if you havent got that problem. Minus one thing to worry about.

@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection I must admit, you have an amazing set up, just by simply looking at ye fish, I'm cleaning my filters a couple of times a week, it only means one thing, the filters are working as they should 👍

@@lifearoundthekoipond2283 yeah most definitely, the more rubbish you have in the filters, the more you know they are doing their jobs 😉 thank you for commenting, was nice to chat.