After having stopped keeping aquarium fishes for quite a number of years, I am back now with a new community tank, 2′ in size and powered by two external hanging filter filtering water at 100 gallons per hour. Fishes include Guppy, Tetra, Sword Tails, Red Eye and some other funny looking fishes. Water is crystal clear with two filter running. Total number of fishes is about 30.
Aug 17, 2005, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
We were at Taman Desa the other day and a friend of our who is a photographer help us to shoot a few photograph of our PUG Boofie and Teneal. Boofie is 6.5 years old where Teneal is 3 years old. Some of the pictures taken are :-
The Haze across the KL skyline is extremely serious today and the visibility even during noon is extremely poor. Some pictures taken in the vicinity of our office are below :-
The air smell like KL is burning. It is a pity that under such condition that many people still have to work outdoor.
The pollution index recorded for KL was 276, much lower than 420 recorded in Klang. Even at 276, it is bad enough.
August 10, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The installation of Vortex was done and completed in 3 hours and the Vortex was commission 30 minutes after the completion of installation. Some of the pictures of the completed Vortex are as below :-
After more than 10 years of keeping koi, I finally decided to add Vortex Filter to my pond system to increase the water filtering capacity. Two large capacity Vortex Filter Chambers were purchased locally.
The Vortex are 4′ tall about 3′ in diameter and each Vortex has two compartment, top and bottom section. The Vortexs are filled in the following manner :-
1) First Vortex is completed filled with brushes, all together 43 of them of 24 inches long each. The bottom section of this Vortex is filled with 20 brushes where the top section has 23 of them. This Vortex will serve primarily as the settlement chamber or prefilter to removed heavy solid waste.
2) The bottom section of the 2nd Vortex is filled with 25Kg of Bio Ring. The top section is filled with 25Kg of sea shells. Both Bio Ring and Sea Shell will serve as filter medium for biological filter. The sea shell will also serve as buffer against PH fluctuation in pond water.
The inlet and outlet of the Vortex is 4″ PVC pipe. A 150watt Tsurumi Submersible Pump is being used to feed water from the pond to the Vortex. Some of the pictures of the Vortex setup as below :-
Installation will commence soon and I will post the overall cost and installation time required in the near future.
The same posting will also be added to the Koi Forum in time to come. Upon completion of the setup, the Vortex will serve the 12 tons pond and I will monitor its performance to see if the Vortexs alone is enough for the 12 tons pond water.