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Hi mate sounds great. I personally don’t see a problem starting a pond up now, maybe not ideal but I would honestly ask someone with a better level of expertise, like your local koi dealer or something like that mate. Im no expert I’m still a beginner. Good luck

Hi mate, thanks for the awesome and informative message. I liked reading this, I did not know about the chalk. Also real interesting hearing about PH as tbh mate mine is about 8.2 and always the same. Cheers mate 🙏

@@koifishjohnny As long as you keep it below 9 and relatively stable you'll be fine. Acidosis tends to happen around 5.5 and alkalosis tends to happen around 9.5 I use agricultural lime on my lake because it's the cheapest and most easily available carbonate source (about a ton per acre) but you can use all sorts of things like limestone, crushed oyster shells, dolomite etc. They are very slow release and work best in running water if available. If it's stable and the fish are happy I probably wouldn't go messing around with it though. My lake is a 600+ year old estate lake of about 2 acres that has been rather neglected over the last 30 years (surrounded by trees and a couple of feet of horrible, stinky silt in places) and I'm currently in the process of restoring it to health on a shoestring budget.

@@DjDolHaus86 some mega information again mate thank you. Sounds like an amazing adventure with the lake mate, I hope it all goes well, I’m sure it will as you know what your doing pal 🙏

@@koifishjohnny Long way to go until we start reversing the damage but it's going mostly to plan so far. Big setback this year as we've realised we're getting runoff from the nearby arable fields but we've taken steps to mitigate this so hopefully we can get the nitrite/nitrate under control.

@@DjDolHaus86 Good luck pal

Hi Helea, glad you enjoyed the review of la palma princess. It’s stunning tbh and if you go have a drink for me 🙏

Yo iré también en noviembre 😉

Ohhhhhh very interesting to hear. I hope they have done that to the check in at la palma princess as it would make it so so so so much better. 🕺🍹

Hi pal, I have to be honest I loved it at Abora Catarina in Gran Canria. We didn’t get out much in play del ingles so I think a return trip could be on the cards in the future. There was a lot we loved about Abora Catarina hotel 🏨 thanks for watching 🙏

Hi mate this is the clove oil I use ⚠ amzn.to/4dktsKt

Thanks you, don’t have to use it yet touch wood but nice to be prepared,thanks bud.

@@killerbites3963 good luck pal

Hi John mate, I’m so sorry to hear your having an issue with koi dropsy as well or poorly koi. It’s not a nice experience at all mate and I wish you all the best with it. Thanks for watching John and take care mate 🙏

Thanks for the comment mate we love our house extension pal. 💯 floor plan could be improved

Thank you so so much for your kind comment on our house extension it’s appreciated 🙏

Sorry to hear this mate and yeah 💯 can be super time demanding, I’m hoping my boys help me as time goes on

I don’t think the couch’s go that far at la palma princess hotel 😂😂😂 I joke mate, it’s funny how one typo can make all the difference. I think you mean coach and if so they drop you right outside mate, reception is on same level and I would 100 get help from the hotel getting to your room mate, as it isn’t easy. It’s a great hotel tbh and we may go back in future

@@koifishjohnny yes coach haha Thanks for the reply

@@craig6163 No worries mate, have a great holiday and a beer for me mate

Thanks pal we love our single story extension and thanks for the kind comments. I got them from Darren at www.thewindowcentreatherton.co.uk/ he is a top bloke, tell him I sent you ;-) Good luck with your renovation

😂😂😂😂 💯 it would have been mate. Easier isn’t always better though and we really love our house extension now mate

Thank you so much Ahmed mate 🙏 super appreictae your kind comments on the house extension video and our house. Thanks pal

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks :-)

Hi pal thanks we love our house extension so thank you. We sprayed them as a temp measure with vision of updating them in few years, but tBH they are doing fine

Hi thanks we loved it at TUI blue aura, in all honesty I can not remember but if you ask them and reference the video it may help. Sorry and good luck 🤞

Parrot feathers 🪶 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 funny and your right I took the duck weed out the koi pond 🙏

The youngest went of spirit then 🙏 love it mate 🙌

This is 💯 something I’m thinking of, I just don’t know how lol 😂

Hi sue, I have every colour of noodle except black haha great point though

Hi Andy mate, thanks for the comment I have removed the duck weed now after your comment and a few others pal, so thank you. Tbh I like them for their decorative value too mate so may grow into this. It’s quite hard to understand exactly what and how much is needed isn’t it

@@koifishjohnny Hi johnny, yeah it’s a tricky one mate, especially for your (our) style of pond, doesn’t lend itself for adding natural plants to it. Perhaps an idea would be to construct an additional area at the back, almost like a small raised feeder pond, that you could load up with plants and could then feed back in to the pond via the water blade I’m sure you had at the back of the pond.. Just a thought, but as always, costs to build it.. 💷💷💷 🤦🏼‍♂️🤬

@@AndysKoiPuddle cheers Andy I was thinking something similar tbh. Maybe change blade in future to big plant pot. But I also want something in the pond to stimulate the koi as they do like the water lettuces

@@koifishjohnny Yeah sounds good mate.👍🏼 I should really try putting something in myself, that will grab their attention for a while… 👍🏼 You going to make it along to Newark in a few weeks Johnny?

@@AndysKoiPuddle TBH mate I was looking at it yesterday after watching the North Koi Show, but its a 4hr trip in the car with the boys, and when the boys sleep in the day they dont sleep at night. So I may have to wait til one closer to me comes up, or the boys get older mate. I do want to though

Assuming you mean lady foxes I don’t know mate, tell them I’m married 🦊

@@koifishjohnny lol no I mean real foxes.

I have no idea mate sorry

Cheers Sharpey mate I love my little koi plants :-)

Cheers mate TBH Im thinking of getting these, I got rid of duck weed

Good points there sue, I love it like anchored floating baskets 🧺 thank you and thanks for watching 👀

No problem Rachael, hope you enjoy your visit to TUI Blue Aura if your planning on going

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Some times I get tongue tied lol

Sorry to hear that mate, and few others said the same. TBH mine seem to be ok for now but Karashigoi is curious

Thanks for sahring mate and great to hear about yours, mine seem to have accepted them for now lol

@@rachidouali1420 your welcome Rachi 🙏

Cheers mate, I took it out now TBH

duck weed wouldn’t spread like mad with koi

Duck weed has been removed, due to yours and others advice. I don't want a green lid on koi pond lol. Cheers for watching and supporting 🙏

@@koifishjohnny the koi would eat the duck weed it wouldn’t get a chance to take over 👍👍

100% agree with this comment

Duck weed has been removed, due to yours and others advice. I don't want a green lid on koi pond lol. Cheers for watching and supporting 🙏

Good point mate, defo something to consider tBH they doing fine as is but will be thinking about this

That guy got good idea with the foam with hole cut in to sit the plants seems very safe and you could do what you did with the pots to the foam sheet

@@mystickoi2024 I like it cheers mate, 100% something to think about for sure, cheers pal

Cheers pal, I would like them but seems hard

Best way to put any pond plants you want is to plant them in pots the normal way then buy 2 inch thick black polystyrene cut holes for pot to sit in this will keep the plant afloat then secure them wherever you want many aquatic centres sell them already made I done them myself far cheaper

@@nickturton3246 very interesting mate I may have a look online for a video on this

@koifishjohnny I tried to put 2 in there last year they lasted a couple of weeks but I brought 2 that were already a fair size with nice roots starting young lillies off in a koi pond is just a recipe for disaster but it can be done you just have to have big gravel or I had some of those filter balls the heavy ones not the plastic ones and they did the job also gave some space for bacteria to grow too and help with the blanket weed

But as for water parameters I'd deffo recommend when I had lillies in my pond I never had a spike at all I kept them for a while and I think they would have lasted and regrown this year but I wanted to remove them while I sorted the pond upgrade out may get more later but not sure yet

Them baskets may be your saving grace maybe get some foam like they use for pool floats and cut strips so and zip tie them to the lip of the lettuce pots pal then you can attach the zip ties to your wall

Cheers mate, My lettuce are surving so far although Karashgoi has taken a bit of a liking. Good ideas mate and thanks for watching.

@koifishjohnny I will always watch as long as you keep providing the goods! Hahaha it's all a learning curve everyday we learn new things in this hobby don't we mate been watching for ages now its been a pleasure watching you overcome everything and get fully back into koi keeping

Cheers Bobby mate, just got the 3 lettuces in now, thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it mate

@@koifishjohnny reeds would have a better chance in a basket

@@bobbyknox9258 reeds very interesting, thinking water cress and reeds are good shout I had them on my first pond I think 🤔

@@LeTwistedOne cheers pal it’s a top 10 tune for me that one ☝️ 🙏

Hi Nigel mate, Thank you so muhc the boys loved picking their koi out and their little piggy banks :-) Cheers mate

Thanks we love our house extension tbh the inside layout could be better and we are looking at changing this in future

@@TopCatsBack yeah proper tacky isn’t it 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Cheers Tom mate I need to check them tbh there seems to be a few changes to our water 💦 thanks pal

Hi Nicola thanks for the lovely comment on our house extension. Thanks for being so nice 👍

@@koifishjohnny yr welcome done amazing looks beautiful 😍

@@nicola.o9019 thanks 🙏 ❤️

Cheers mate, I’m loving it at the minute and that tune is top 10 ever for me 👍

Cheers Andy mate they are belters feels so good to have a pond full of happy koi ❤️🙏

Wow mate thank you so much for letting me know about this, super happy to have helped a little. Cheers mate and well done 👍

It is still holding but I did some research and learnt that the locking nuts on the TMC UV require replacing after 2 years as overtime with the heat causes the nut to swell causing the thread to become loose which is what I found. I used some ptfe tape and tightened as much as I could before it loosened as it did on two previous occasions and ordered 2 locking nuts so when they arrive I will replace. I will check out your other videos as you have a lovely looking pond. I just polished up our window last night and this morning the fish look superb.