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So as not to waste your time, effort and energy, it is best if possible to make your Koi pond a maintenance free one. If your budget will allow, try to use the latest but cheap to keep up with your maintenance with the pond so that you will not be spending most of your time maintaining the pond manually. One good way to help you have a good maintenance for your Koi pond is using a very good plumbing facility. It would not only help you cut back some costs, but it will improve the environment for your fishes as well.

There is what we call the gravity filter installations and the pump fed installations. These two are the basic types of plumbing systems for Koi pond.

Gravity Filter Installation

This type of pond pump installation needs to be included in the planning of the pond. The excavation must be done according to the planned size of the pond, including the planned gravity filter installation. The correct depth of the pond should be exact because the volume of the water in the pond should be equal to the volume of the water in the filter. This makes the gravity push the water through the underground pipe to the filter.

Pump Fed Installation

This is the most common type of pump installation and is more convenient, especially when the pond has been made before planning on a plumbing system for the pond. There is a filter pump that should be located higher than the level of the water in order to pump the water up to the filter and brings back filtered water to the pond by gravity. This filter pump is connected to the inlet filter with piping. The diameter of the piping should be big enough to make the water pass through without reducing the output.

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We all know how difficult it is to find time to do our daily chores not to mention taking care of the garden.

Having a Koi fish pond in our garden is a colorful and wonderful thing but it requires some dedication and therefore time to take care of it.

One thing you can add to your Koi pond is Water Hyacinths. These plants don’t need too much attention, in fact they are very simple and very easy to take care of. They help to maintain the pond free of algae and blanker weeds.

However, Water Hyacinths grow very fast and they tend to expand to other areas than the pond. So, if you intend to put this type of Koi pond Plants in your pond, keep an eye on them and don’t let them take over the pond and surrounding areas.

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A Koi fish pond produces a lot of organic debris and muck. Sum up with the stuff that falls in the water (leaves, insects, dust, etc.) we can say that a Koi pond can be very dirty. So, what can we do to keep good quality water?

Koi pond skimmers are the right solution to trap the rubbish on the surface before it sinks. If the filtration system is working properly and the water is returning from the filtration system to the pond then, at some stage, the surface debris will for certain pass through the mouth of the skimmer. In a rectangular Koi fish pond it is best to return water to one end and to skim the surface at the other.

Water overflows make ideal surface skimmers, if you want to add this as a feature to your pond. Bear in mind though that the pond water level then becomes important and needs to be maintained at a relatively consistent level or else your filtration system and flow rates will tend to vary somewhat.

A great idea for Koi pond skimmers is to have them built into the Koi pond right next to the settlement chamber. That way the skimmer will clean to surface of the pond water right into the settlement chamber, from where all the collected debris can be accumulated and filtered out of the pond system.

If you live in an area where the amount of leaves falling is very big you should use a conventional pool skimmer to remove the leaves. This way you don’t load the filter system and we keep our Koi fish pond with quality water.

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