Koi ponds get out of the filtration misconceptions and keep fish with ease

Why do I need to filter my koi pond for fish? How to filter? Getting rid of filtration misconceptions makes fishkeeping easy and happy.

Why filter?

To keep the water clean and maintain the ecological environment needed by the fish. Because fish excrete feces, feeding and feeding fish will leave residual substances that will increase the amount of impurities in the water, causing the water quality to deteriorate and damage the fish.

What are the principles of filtration?

Thoroughly remove fish poop and impurities to maintain clean and pure water; Creating an ecological environment in the water body to meet the survival needs of fish.

What is the relationship between physical and biochemical filtration? 　　

The better the effect of physical filtration, the less impurities remain after filtration, the easier the task of biochemical filtration, the less biochemical filtration material required; on the contrary, the more biochemical filtration material is needed. Imagine, if there is no filter cotton to filter out the impurities, nitrifying bacteria to all the increasing fish poop and other impurities produced by harmful substances decomposed, it will be a very difficult thing, or even impossible.

How to effectively realize the function of physical and biochemical filtration? 　　

The use of filter cotton, activated carbon and other filter the first pass, filtering out impurities in the water particles, the thicker the filter cotton the better the effect; the use of biochemical cotton, ceramic ring, glass ring and other materials to provide survival of nitrifying bacteria attached to the environment, so that nitrifying bacteria in the water body of the residual harmful substances in the decomposition of the process of nitrification, nitrifying bacteria, nitrification, the more complete, the better the effect of filtration.

How to choose and configure biochemical filtration materials?

The principle is to preserve as many nitrifying bacteria as possible to participate in filtration. The reason why the first application of biochemical cotton, the purpose is to save nitrifying bacteria at the same time, but also on the water body for the second physical filtration, blocking the filter cotton missed impurity particles through; and then ceramic ring or glass ring to save more nitrifying bacteria to meet the filtration needs. Ceramic ring and glass ring can use one of them, their function is to preserve nitrifying bacteria.

How to rationally apply filter media　1. Get out of the misunderstanding of heavy biochemical filtration and light physical filtration. Some friends do not attach much importance to physical filtration and a large number of applications of biochemical filtration materials, actually dozens of hundreds of pounds of applications of ceramic ring or glass ring, and even some still do not get better filtration results. If the first pass of physical filtration effect is thorough, still need so much biochemical filter material? Of course, the grass tank filtration more application of biochemical filtration material is reasonable, because the physical filtration of the grass tank is often difficult to do thoroughly, need a large number of nitrifying bacteria to work.

2.Physical filtration and biochemical filtration filter media dosage determination. Physical filtration filter media dosage of general principles, as long as the water flow into the filter tank can effectively contain all the impurity particles can be isolated, here including the density of the filter material, thickness and placement effect, filter cotton around the overflow phenomenon can not occur, otherwise the loss of impurity particles, and aggravate the burden of biochemical filtration. If the filter tank inlet pipe mouth set a short thin stocking to cover the impurities, in fact, adding an effective filter, filter cotton to become a second filter, the effect will be much better. This has three layers of filter cotton is basically enough.

4. For the determination of the amount of biochemical filtration filter media, we do not need to do tedious mathematical calculations, according to the capacity of their own filtration bucket, tank or box to put as much as possible on it. As for those DIY large filter box, can be put into the hundreds of pounds, only put twenty or thirty pounds is also enough. 5. Water quality is clear, bright, lively fish, the key to the physical filtration is thorough, as long as the tank as soon as the production of fish impurities on the immediate removal of impurities, do not allow it to have time to produce pollutants, can effectively maintain the ecological environment of the body of water.