Sleepers koi pond build - Pipe work done, EazyPod and moving bed
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
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These videos, reviews or any information given are from my own experiences of DIY, product trials, koi and pond keeping and may not be suitable for everyone.
Enjoyed the update. Your doing a fantastic job. Pond and setup looks really good. Thanks for sharing.
Aww thank you for the kind comment. Much appreciated. Thank you for watching.
I think your amazing and you have been inspirational to people like me. I’m just starting a pond build. Your videos are excellent.
Thank you Alan, very kind comment. That's super cool that you are starting your build. Let me know how you get on.
Your a star Lau not many women would attempt what you have done , 🙏🐟🐟🐟🐟🙏
Thank you Carol for your kind message. It is physically demanding, but the worst is done now. Still so much to do but fish are happy and I am too. Thank you for watching. Hope you are well.
Hi, well explained at the end with the none return valve, I do have a built in bottom drain in my pond to my multi bay filter, but as I have gone along and learnt more, I now this year have two bakki showers with a retro drain feeding water to them, but I learnt I needed to put in a none return valve in which I my case sits in the pond on the pipe work, my pump sits on the wall and I had to plumb in pump purge uprights lol, your system looks great with what you have done well done again, and you are happy and smiling great. You are right koi are expensive and you never stop I'm still going after 4 years the Joys lol.
I see, I understand what you have made with the showers. If it works, then brilliant. There is always room for improvement, even with existing system. I just didn't want to make it over complicated. Thank you for watching. Means a lot.
its coming along realy well looking forward to the finished set up
Hi, everything seems so far off the finished product 🙄 but I ll keep going. I feel it's less of a rush now. I can do things gradually. My body is telling me to now 😂
Great update think your amazing ,you made me laugh about takeaways I have the same problem x
Thank you for your kind message Katrina. Yeah take aways are a bit of a problem 😊
You're almost there now and just a few little bits to finish off and you're ready to relax and injoy your pond for the summer. If I was you I would use the Sieve in front of the pod as they are great bit of kit and will save your pod and moving bed having to be cleaned all the time. Just my thoughts! 😀
Hi Darren - Thank you for your message. Yes I did think about it, and tried but I am limited in high and it means that the pod would have been then gravity fed, which is not great as it's a complete one with the UV. To be fair, I am one of those who cleans the pod every other day.. But what you said make totally sense.
Nice to know you got the over the wall pipe to prime ok it can be a pig some times all looking good come on show us the new fish soon
Yeah I will.in the next video. But you ve guessed what it is because I always talk about that breed. It was a massive opportunity and the exact one i wanted.
Koi and what a pond keeper likes has always been its down to taste thing i like Chags i like this sort of koi get what koi you like. its you pond your fish look forward to seeing it up close
@@boxtriker it's a chag Martyn. They are my favourite. I was really after an olive colour. Each scale is like with a darker edge. She is stunning. In my views 🙂 I am always commenting about your Chags 🙂
Good on you Lau, great job, yeah, I think you've got enough filtration with the moving bed and shower helping the easy pod, soon be finished, although there's always a bit of tinkering to be done.
Yeah the more I looked at it, the more I thought that the sieve was becoming redundant. Which is a shame as I only just bought it 🙄 I do like the multibay but again, it might be unnecessary. I hate complicated system 😊
Great work Lau. Keep it up.
Thank you Steve. I watched the video from Matt by the way where he explained the delays. Its madness.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection A real shame but I can wait, I want the best.
@@CATANDEYEKOI most definitely. Fully understand that. He will get the supplies. But it's blocked everywhere. The fiberglassing people down the south are in the same position.
🤣🤣🤣 I've just got visions of you fighting with the dog over a pizza . Love the pot stand that's never going to break 💪💪
Both the dog and the cat were lucky I didn't catch them do it. It would have been a proper fight 😅 but it was too late.. so too late for me to do or say anything. I was really gutted though.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection 🤣👌
hello first time i have watched you you make it all sound fun which it is supposed to be. keep it up XX
Hi Dougie. Thank you for the kind comment. I had 2 bad days so far but all good otherwise. Thank you for watching
All looking good, keep up the good work 👍
Thank you Andy. I can't find your video where you talk about that little device for flood/leak alarm.
Hi, here's the two videos related to the leak sensor, you need the camera to connect the leak sensor to it
czcams.com/video/foYuELyFxTo/video.html
czcams.com/video/QVeS-7PuJms/video.html
@@DerbyKoi perfect, thank you. Will watch again.
Great video I have a eazy pod and I was wondering how to put a bottom on it as its pump fed given me a idea
Hi, thank you for watching and commenting. Yes I just wanted the pump outside the pond for easy maintenance. Works really well. On a further video, I have added a split after the pump that goes to a Multibay.
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Brilliant video thank you very much, when you do a water change do you top up the pond with tap water .?
Hi Frank, i am in favour of cleaning a filter everyday. So EazyPod get fleshed everyday in late spring, summer and autumn. The vortex of the Multibay gets done every other day. Tempest every other day too. So everyday I change the equivalent of 80 litres. I replace immediately that water via a 3 stage dechlorinator going to a black vessel going to the second bay of the Multibay. I don't have any chloramine in my water but chlorine of course. I would never put tap water directly into the pond. Hope this helps.
Awesome set up you have here. I’m trying to do something similar with my easypod but struggling to connect pressure pipe to the inlet. What fitting have you used with your rubber straight? Thanks
Hi, I used a 2 inch rubber boot but it was hard to put in, extremely tight. Even after warmer up. BUt you can get it in there in the end.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Thank you for your quick reply.
Hi great vid was just wondering just bought a easy pod complete does the pod have to be higher than pond as im on pump fed or can pod be on floor hope it makes sense thanks Steve
Hi Steve. If you are pump fed like me and you have a raised pond like me, then the outlet has got to be higher than the pond water level.
Is your pond raised or fully in ground?
Thanks so much
Hi my pond is 3 ft of ground so does my filter have to be high than pond or can I leave filter on floor then run my pipe in to pond I have a retro bottom drain in pond can I leave my varipmp out of pond thanks it makes sense all new to me thanks
@@steventoole897 hi Steven, I have replied above a few days ago. What kind of bottom drain have you got? One like me which is pump fed or a Draco one which allows you to covert to gravity? As explained above, the pump can effectively be outside the pond, below the water level. You will just need to prime it. But if your bottom drain is a purely pump fed one, like mine, then your easypod needs to be above the water level, so it effectively returns to the pond by gravity.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection thanks so much I’ve got it now 👍
Good video great to see your progress, we have heard about Rachael so many times will she make an appearance?
😊 Rachel is being camera shy 😊 and she is not shy believe me! I will get her one day
Hi 😊. How do you prime the pump?
Hi, you need to fill in the pipes with water and make sure the water is already touching the pump basically. You need to put your variable pump at 100%. At the beginning you will hear some girgling going on, and within seconds, the air is gone. After a minute of running at 100%, you can turn your variable pump to the desire speed. For this kind of set up, it is always best to have a valve before the pump and a valve after, slide valve or ball valve, whatever you prefer, this way you can isolate the pump should you have to do any maintenance to do on the pump. And also, it will prevent your water from the filter to empty but also prevent the pipes to empty.
@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection thanks for explaining that...makes total sense. I have a similer setup to you with the retro fit bottom drain and thinking about taking the pump out of the pond
@BrizzleKoi yeah depending on your pump, it will work better outside the pond. If you pump is exposed to the element, then take care in winter that the pump doesn't freeze if you have it outside the pond. But if your filtration system is in a shed/filter house, then you will be fine.
Lau your under water returns need to be pressurised or they will do nothing!
Hi, thank you for the comment. It's been working well for the past 4 months 😊 I agree with what you said and that's the reason why I put a midway return in the same pipe so the air can come out and create inside the whole pipe a pressure.
Hiya, great videos :O) I am just in the middle of my own pond build and I will be having a similar set up to yours, I was just wondering as the return from the eazy pod is going down to the bottom of the moving bed was there any need for the eazy pod to be so far off the ground? I was going to have my pump fed eazy pod sat on the floor with the moving bed sat beside on the floor the return from the moving bed reaches just above top of the pond, I hope this makes sense Lol do you think would this be a huge mistake? please somebody help Lol
Hi Jo, I was really concerned about the risk of the pod to overflow. Also, in my case, I am going to split the return from the Pod to the existing aerated bed and a multibay which will also have a UV there. The pod gravity feeds the aerated bed, so I need maximum pressure. I personally would not recommend to put the pod on the floor. I was advised not to lower it either by Tim from Quality Nishikigoi. But before you solvent weld it, you can also try dry fit. If it doesn't work or if the pod floods, then you will need to put it higher.
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection Lau thank you so much :0) I am so pleased I found you on CZcams i felt like I was the only female koi pond builder in the land Lol I watch hundreds of male koi keeper videos on you tube and then you came along, I drive my wife mad talking about my pond Lol keep the videos coming happy ponding :0)
@@jojohnson7196 Hi Jo, Thank you for the very kind comment. I am sure we are quite a few females doing this, not necessarelly on CZcams, but I find CZcams very useful, for everything.
Don't worry about driving your wife mad :-) My view is, I am at home, I dont drink, dont smoke, dont take drug and dont go out, so my Rachel always know where to find me and knows what I am up to :-)
@@LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection well I work from home, I dont drink, I dont smoke, dont take drugs, i go out to walk my dogs in the New forest and ride my bike , so pretty much the same really, I don't have much time to do anything else because I am always doing/changing/fixing something on the pond Lol I am totally addicted but hey I love it :0) so bring on the divorce Lol jokes Lol
@@jojohnson7196 haha, nah you will be fine. Koi over the past years have brought a lot of internal peace inside me.
Hi love ya videos may I ask were u live as if u do sell your sieve I might be interested in buying it
Hi Mark. I am near Southampton. Sieve is new, only used it for 2 weeks when I started the pond.
Hi Lau just wondering how much you would want for the seive?
Hi Lee, sorry the sieve has been sold this weekend.
Hi could you tell what size boot did you use on the outlet of the easypod please
Hi Keith, I have used a reducer 3 to 2 inches..
Cheer so 3 inch boot and 2 inch reducer
@@keithbishop4080 hi, that's correct. The outlet pipe of the EazyPod is 3 inch. But all my system runs on 2 inches.
Here is a link, you then choose the size needed in the drop down menu:
www.pond-planet.co.uk/pond-c1/pipework-fittings-c35/evolution-aqua-eazy-adaptors-p1115/s1816?Blisting%2Bads&cid=GBP&gclid=Cj0KCQjw24qHBhCnARIsAPbdtlL47EBLuColHrCeVJDZ0YrWK13rY-oWcL1fnBet0s93rQYEngHncdcaAh2LEALw_wcB
Thanks for your help. 👍👍
@@keithbishop4080 no problem. Anytime. Just ask if you need anything, and I am happy to help.