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TURNOVER RATES

AND FLOWRATES

Stephen and Anthony Grey.

Sitting in the garden with our fleeces on! Having a
well-earned cuppa Anthony and I got discussing
Turnover rates and Flowrates, what the difference is
and how important they are to our enclosed pond
system, BUT do we really need to know exactly what
the rates are?

It’s coming up to the anniversary of 20 years since we
Stephen and Anthony Grey.
built our main pond and how our thinking has
changed over the years as we move further towards
understanding the science technical detail of our
ponds – though it’s important not to overthink it, in
reality as long as we understand the basic concept of
how it all works. But, like us, many are wanting to
understand that little bit more!
The three phases of building a pond being – Planning
– Designing – Building – all of these include numerous
KOI HEALTH steps that should be understood and researched
BEGINS AND before spending any money or putting that spade in
the ground! At the end of the day having a well-
ENDS WITH functioning pond means healthy Koi, which has to be
the number one objective.
SUCCESSFUL
So therefore, Koi health begins with successful water-
WATER- keeping and ends with successful water-keeping (I
KEEPING copied this statement from one of the modules I
completed for K.O.I.*). Anthony and I will come back
to the three phases of pond building for later articles
one being filtration and K1, but we want to jump in
and say we think one of the most important
considerations and great thought should be taken in
the planning, designing, building phases to have a
successful pond is understanding Turnover rates and

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