The Filtreau Drum One Year On & Fin Inspection 

I’ve kept fish for over 20years. Instead of looking in your pond looking for faults ,just enjoy the fish instead of taking them out for the slightest thing, as this causes the fish more stress. You will always get these problems this time of year with heavy feeding, as long as you don’t see any angry redness the fish will look after themselves.

That's a good review on your drum buddy I found that very interesting there a good bit of kit to be fair 👍😎🐟

From the heart that review on the drum Si, will be very useful to owners/buyers of this model drum 👏🏻 As a few have already suggested I’d split the food to floating/sinking hopefully giving enough time for the dorsal fin to repair itself.. great watch mate. 😎👍🏻

Great update Si👍. I’m always using my nt labs test kit to double check my Hanna test results and fortunately they always corolate👍. Glad that your drum is working well for you now , shame that it wasn’t right when you got it but made interesting watching for us😊. Fish are looking good👍. Must admit I don’t worry about split fins too much as luckily mine have always healed without any intervention. If you feel it isn’t healing you could try fully sedating him, getting him out and completely drying the fins then applying the smallest drop of superglue to the very end. In your case I really wouldn’t do anything yet👍. I have the same feeder as you but wasn’t happy with how they threw themselves against the copings so I have a decking board which I put across the middle of the pond with blocks on each end to raise it up with the feeder in the middle of that….much better👍😊. Keep up the good work buddy👍🐟🈲😊

Great review of the drum Si the split dorsal will heal in time probably due to fighting for food I wouldn't worry about it.👍👍💯💯

Nice update Simon great honest review Don’t worry about the one with split s they will sort selfs out mate Nice update Simon great honest review Don’t worry about the split s they will sort selfs out 👌👍👍㊗️🏯㊗️

Simon the split fins is the very reason I use sinking and floating to split them up but another way around it is using a feeder that flings the food across the surface

The way you talk, you sound like you are from my neck of the woods or close by, definitely sounds like a Barnsley accent lol. Great review on the filter. I'm considering one when I build my pond next year

Love your channel mate by eck you don’t half make hard work of it mate just enjoy the fish

Hi Si, that fin doesn't look that bad, my koi what I mentioned in text message to you was full of splits all along the length of the dorsal plus most of the height was gone and looked minced up, it's looking better more lively after the 10 day course of treatment, but it's still got some way to go, I also put it in my floating net and been able to feed it up as it looked like it wasn't getting much to eat. Rob.

I have a Filtreau HF30 that has been running for 5 years on my 1000 gallon pond the only problems I have experienced is having to tighten the drive nut to 45 Newton’s every six months as it stops turning. It also clicked at the start but the dealer knew what to do by taking a slither of plastic of the waste Shute. My main pond over 2300 gallons uses a Filtreau Combi Next with combined bio chamber, I updated the mesh for hi flow and has been running for a year without any issues

I have had horrendous problems with ulcers on koi etc etc. I have done all the taking them out treating them putting them back and never had any results always lost them in the end. I was cleaning my nexus daily adding bio carb testing water all the time. Was driving me mad. So for the last month and a bit I have left them alone cleaned the filter 2 times a week fed them 2 times a day. I also took the feeder off because of them jumping all over each other. My water test have never been so good and the ulcers on the fish including mouth rot are healing or healed on there own. I am not even putting a net in the pond anymore. Like someone else has said on here we mess about to much instead of just sitting and enjoying them

Hi, interesting update on the drum, I'm undecided on buying a second-hand Aqua Forte entry level drum, it's a good price but being a glass half empty type i can foresee problems that will end up costing more than a new one!🤓

I have a small air stone at the margin near where I feed so it disperses the food across the surface. Seems to stop them climbing over each other plus it makes them work for it. I have a HF30, touch wood it’s given me no problems at all. A couple of mine had a few knocks and one had a split fin after spawning. Yours will soon sort them themselves out.

Subbed mate 👍

Great video Simon...thinking about purchasing one of those drums for my pond. Think it would suit my 7000L pond...and also suit my wallet 😉

I bought two of the latest HF30 ten months ago, my pond is 50,000ltrs. I have used just one of them so far and it as worked fine. I live in Perth WA and have been trying to source replacement 40w uvc globes but the prices are very high here. I will be back home in Lancashire in september so would like to get two then. Do you know of any dealers that stock the globes and parts? Keep up the good work, from a fellow a plumber.

I had the same problem with split fins because of the feeder next to the pond, I just moved the feeder so it sat on top of the shower & flow of the shower spreads the food round the pond & calms the feeding down & the split fins stopped, hope this helps, Martin

Love your Tancho mate really nice. I don’t know if you know the answer to this but I had a Tancho and it lost it’s spot so I effectively ended up with a white fish. I would really like to get another one but reluctant in case it happens again. Is it usual for that to happen or was I just unlucky? And is there anyway of preventing it happening?

I’m looking at one of these Filtraeu drums. If they work and are reliable that’s good enough for me! Might even pick one up second hand if the majority of people don’t have issues with them. Why spunk £3k on something from Oase when these exist.

Hi Si, I really enjoyed watching this information video, as I have just bought the same drum filter from a local auction mate auctioneers Devon. Unfortunately my pond is sunken down and we are having a resin laid garden being put down as I write i have a garage next to the pond and want to install this and also a nexus early model bio filter i want to add with it, that I also won at the auctions, but confused in how it should all be set up with pumps ect. The garage floor is 200mm below pond level. What would your suggestion to me be please and other RU-vidrs comments would be appreciated guys. Many thanks to all. My koi fish we have had for 10 yrs they spawn nearly every year, early May and the fry usually hatch on my birthday 3rd week of May. So great advice is very welcomed. We hardly are able to se our fish till they feed hence this set up. Your fish love you.

Can you give me a link for the faster flow screen mesh you got on yours , and is it easy to swap over ?

Great lily drum mate and I'm really jealous of your tancho where was that one from?

Filters are cracking I love my filtreau combi with fish it’s split fin will heal itself nicely bud