Quarantine Set-ups ...
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Here in Ontario, during the
winter months most of us are yearning for spring to come
and worry for the koi outdoors holding out under ice....
For us having a few inside seems to take the edge off! Having
an indoor tank, large enough to support a few small koi
has one very good advantage - it's a great way to quarantine
newly acquired fish... It's been our practice of the past
several years to purchase koi in late fall or through the
winter and keep them indoors where we are able to enjoy
them as well as have a good long quarantine before joining
the main pond come the following spring.
The Do-It-Yourself
way
Using what's available...
do it yourself and do it cheap - even better if it's free!
Getting in with the recycle program, most of what we use
for any of our projects has come from left over's from
past jobs, junk heaps, and recycled wood. When we do spend
our money we bargain shop for the best deals we can get.
If we can build it, dig it, pour it ourselves, all the
better, saving our money to put towards the larger purchases
such as pumps and liner.
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The laundry sink made a very
good filter. It was fitted with a 1" ball valve
for easy drainage. The water was pumped from the 45gal
rubbermaid tub, where the small Koi were, up into a
bucket. Bucket, serving as a pre-filter, contained filter
batting and mesh. The basket with the plants had holes
drilled into the lower left side and the water trickled
out into the sink. The sink was filled with lava rock
and nylon kitchen scrubbies along with air stones for
water movement. We used a 250gph mag drive pump.
While this served it's purpose
it wasn't quite big enough for more than 2 small koi
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Dimensions:
3'
x 4' x 3'
Constructed with 2" x 6"
frame and 1" plywood. The 2" x 6" planks
are "on-end" for additional strength. Used
2" styrofoam board for the base and 1" styrofoam
board on interior walls. 10' x10' 45mil EPDM liner.
Filter is a 50gallon rubbermaid tote plumbed with
2" pvc pipe return. Media used - nylon scrbbies,
floss matting, lava rock. 250gph pump. Lights - fluorescent.
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Just
finished and filling. |
It's
an eye-sore but it was functional! |
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