If you can successfully manage the wastes you will have a successful Koi pond...

It's true. And it need not take up your entire weekend if you do it properly from the start!

Technology evolves for good reason. See the benefits for yourself - manage the wastes and manage the Koi pond

If your Koi pond is badly designed or your filtration system inadequate your Koi will die in due course. The fact of the matter is that Koi are remarkably tough fish and if you manage to succeed in sending a few off to meet their makers, you've done a sterling job in maintaining exceptionally poor water quality that would have long ago killed off lesser fish.

I don't mean to berate but the point has to be made that a sick or dead Koi is a symptom of poor water quality. You've taken the first step to address that by reading this far and by informing yourself of the science of Koi keeping you're well on the road towards rectifying mistakes that are all too easy to make. Show me a Koi keeper who has never had problems and I'll show you an honest politician. Trouble is, neither exist.

We've all been there but far better to lose a Koi under circumstances beyond your control than to watch a treasured pet suffer and die at your hand.

Manage the wastes and you manage the Koi pond. Why do I keep harping on this topic?

It's for a very good reason. If you understand that a Koi pond is in fact a chemical plant with reactors aplenty, feed streams of reagents and so forth, you should be able to mentally encase your pond in a giant plastic bag. In this bag you would include the pond itself, the Koi and the filtration system.

Can you see that very little input is actually required from you in order to keep the Koi pond operating? You put in electricity to keep the pumps running and you put in food to keep the Koi from starving. Other than that, there is very little else for you 'input'.

But if you never took anything out, can you see that your bag would slowly grow bigger and bigger? Something would have to give eventually.

All that you really take out are wastes. Some of these, like the inorganic ammonia you don't even get involved with. Your nitrification bacteria and plants handle all that for you. All that you have to take out are the solid wastes simply because the Koi pond is too small with the number of Koi living in it to be able to so itself safely enough for the Koi. Mother Nature manages because she uses massive lakes with small numbers of fish so that the coping mechanism is more than adequate.

If only it were all so easy!

Managing wastes is critical. If you have wastes under control, you have the Koi pond under control. This is the first rule and golden rule of Koi keeping. No matter what happens, whether you do get an outbreak of serious disease for whatever reason, your Koi will be in a home where they will have the greatest chance of fighting off disease or any other calamity. Waste free water is healthy water.

There are plenty other challenges to keep you busy in keeping Koi. Waste management should not be one of them.

This is why the moving bed media filters available on the Koi filter market today work so well. They are specific scientific applications of fundamental Koi keeping principles and they optimise the waste management process through sensible use of technology. They are designed to last longer, perform better and reduce your maintenance workload to laughable proportions. They are products that have been designed to help you enjoy your Koi and the investment made in them is a sound one.

Picture your and your Koi pond in 5 years from now. Make that 10 years. Go even further. By then you'll have moved to a new house and we know that by the time this happens you won't need any convincing the correct filtration equipment about your next Koi pond. Koi after all become a lifelong obsession...