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There getting there, a lot of my smaller ones have grown well this year, the larger brown chagoi's are 20 years old this year

a pond can be as expensive or as cheap as you want it to be, yes some koi are expensive which i don't understand why people think koi should cost the same as cars, the most expensive fish in my pond cost £60

TBH that is exactly the same reason I have held on to it, and the heater being in the filter. I have another vid update with another issue i had recently where i had a massive leak and it was the quick release for the hose adaptor, the whole part snapped off from the o ring cut out, it was very stiff to open and close but as you can see in that vid, it is super thin the plastic in that area so not sure if i just always had a hair line crack in it which was leaking the air in but after replacing that adaptor and the primer section as it kept disconnecting from the pre filter housing making it a pain to remove it as it all fell apart when removing it, not sure which one of the two was causing it but since replacing both I no longer have the issue with air purging, and the flow is more powerful. Luckily I had both spares as I always like to keep spares just in case, I did contact oase about it and they have sent me a new primer section under warranty but still waiting for the hose quick release to arrive, admittedly i had to do it through my local dealer so not sure which one of the two is taking so long to get it sent out

Hi mate, yeah built it back in 2005, some of the koi are new, the chags and a few of the bigger mirrors I've had since 2003

@@MikeZak101 you have some stunners

@@martynskoipondandgarden4581 There are a few that turned out nicer than i thought they would, I've always bought small (under 20cm) as my enjoyment out of the hobby is growing them, always a bonus if they turn out alright though.

@@MikeZak101 the majority of koi in my big pond were bought around the 15cm mark and they are doing great now 👍👍better to buy small in my opinion

I have had 8 or so tanks in the last 20 years, I have had a fluval 303, 404, 305, a couple of 405's, an FX6, a couple of ehiem filters and a cheap boyu filter, all of which have been external cannister filters and I have never had this issue with any of them, and its not just me, their are loads of forums which have been created because of this issue with the 850 biomaster, I'm pretty sure we all haven't got it wrong. I have done everything that others have tried, shortening the pipes as much as possible, drilling extra holes in the prefilter stem which to be honest I think is the hole problem with the 850, the prefilter design wasn't made with this filter in mind, the 850 came out 2 years after the range was released, the prefilter is exactly the same size as the one in the 600 but the 850 pulls an extra 300Litres per hour, the prefilter steps up in size throughout the whole range but the 850 just has an extra media basket thrown in it and a more powerful pump. When I switch the filter off the creaking sound coming from the vacuum pressure being released is the most I have ever heard on any filter, which further leads me to believe that the intake cannot keep up with the flow rate of the filter when set to full power, if I turn the return valve down to reduce the flow rate then the issue pretty much goes away, but I didn't buy an 850 to run it as slow as a 600, so again poor design.

@@MikeZak101 Oh man I am sorry to hear all this. I had fluvial's for the last 15 years and those guys are powerhouses. They run never a problem, I only bought Oase 600 just for the pre filter and easy of cleaning the same. I now use two of Oase 600 and luckily they don't have the problem. But I red all the complains about Oase filters so for that reason I still keep my Fluval 407 on the side and will not sell them. You must have gotten the bad unit man. But Case really have to do something about this because too many people have this problem....

@@MilosStevanovic1 to be honest, I think the issue is with the 850 model mainly, the prefilter is the same size as the 600 but the filter pumps 5L per minute more and it just cant keep up, if i slow the filter down its a lot better but at full power it has a bad issue

It's definitely not something he's doing mine is the same it's a pain in the arse

did you watch the vid by any chance, the air was going for the length of the video, it does this every 20 to 30 minutes, I have been keeping fish for over 20 years, this is not normal at all. If you have just filled your filter then fine it will purge air a few times, but not every 30minutes over a 6 month period

@@MikeZak101 ok, I didn’t understood after you shaked it. Before replacing it, did you tried to drill a hole on the prefilter upper part?

sorry, only fix I found that worked was to buy a fluval and put this in the trash

@@MikeZak101 gracias... 😞

maybe, its 5 months old and hasn't changed a bit, I replaced the head seal, pipe quick connect, greased the hell out of all the o rings but still does it every 20 to 30 minutes. This is my first and last oase filter, I've always used fluval filters and have never had an issue like this, the only reason I bought this was to get rid of the heater out of the tank but its an expensive regret, oase customer service is as useless as there filter is.

@@MikeZak101 I have experienced the same frustrations and yes, I agree. My next filter wont be Oase. Mine was so loud that it could be heard throughout the entire house. Now running for a year or so and its silent. Placed it on top of a thick foam pad to reduce resonation. Have faith my friend 😁

I don't have an issue with the noise, its the constant air building up in it and it purging itself every 20 to 30 minutes, apart from that its pretty silent, i just can't figure out where its drawing in so much air@@PieckR

didn't make a difference, enlarged the original holes plus added doubled the amount of holes to the sides of the pipe that didn't have any, still the same garbage

Myn works wel. I don't now@@MikeZak101

@@MikeZak101 Are you still using the fine sponge in the prefilter? I bought the updated inlet pipe which is larger and has lots of large oval holes plus the new coarse sponges. Fixed the issue for me.

thanks

thanks, did start as a curtain but didn't like it so just bent it into a ring and called it a day

Hi, I'm just using all the stock fitting for it, the return is the stock spray bar which is below the water line so no air bubbles at all, I don't use co2 either so no bubbles in the system whatsoever. I've tried greasing every seal, the motorhead gasket, pre filter gasket, heater o ring with no joy. I contacted oase about the issue and they said my pipes had to much excess and recommended i shorten them even though there advertisement for there aquariums shows a massive loop on it so you can slide the filter out of the cabinet without disconnecting the pipes, so I shortened them and still does exactly the same thing. When purging the air out you can hear the filter creaking as if under a lot of pressure so I'm assuming the 850 has an issue with possibly the prefilter stage which when doing more research on is exactly the same size unit as in the 600 model even though the 850 has a more powerful pump by 300L per hour (5L per minute extra flow), which I'm assuming it just can't handle being designed for a slower pump, all the other models the prefilter gets longer with each next size model but as I said the 850 uses 6 sponges in the pre filter which is exactly the same as the 600.

⁠@@MikeZak101 tbh I’d suggest getting a Lilly pipe setup Dymax is really good and see if those fix your issue, if not maybe try removing some of the pre filtering elements to see if that helps. I can’t really see the filtering being the issue mainly cause once you tilt the canister and get all that air out the only way for more air to get in there would be from an air leak or something with your intake setup that’s getting air in your lines. Maybe observe your intake hosing and see if you notice any bubbles going thru the hose. Like I’m running Co2 at 6Bps so theres a lot of little micro bubbles introduced and I still don’t get that kind of issue.

No matter what setup I’ve had, my 600 thermo has always had problems with air but to be fair, I’ve always used lily pipe and a surface skimmer. Maybe I’ll try with the OASE pipes to see if it improves. OASE said it’s a worn seal on the pre-filter and kindly sent a replacement but it hasn’t resolved the problem. So maybe using the OASE pipes might resolve matters. Thanks for the tip 👍

I also have same issue from day one worst filter ever purchased

If i do that it leaks like crazy

tbh its hit and miss with these guys, I have a male endlichri that has always been very timid, I have a female ornate that would nip at others all the time if they swam in front of her face, never any damage but just annoying.

I wouldnt be without it to be honest, they take some time to understand but once your there it's a must have in my opinion. Installing it after your filtration is difineatly the way to go, I feed mine after a sieve which is fed by the surface skimmer. I feed saki balance and have zero foam on the pond since fitting it. Thanks

@@MikeZak101 That's good to know. Would you be willing to do another video showing the plumbing etc please ? What size air pump are you running and what volume of water are you putting through it ?

Sure will get another done in the next few days. I have changed from a medo 45 air pump to a jaboe 35 as the medo was a bit to much. I have a 15000L water pump which is split sending 3000 to 5000 litres to the protein skimmer and the rest returning to the pond. The return from the protein skimmer which gravity returns back into the sieve. You can have it going back into the filter or striaght back to the pond but the return cant be under any pressure or it will mess with the water level in the protein skimmer. I am planning on putting on a dedicated 5000 l water pump just for the skimmer to make things abit more simple. Thanks

@@MikeZak101 Thanks for the information. Will look forward to an updated video 👍

Did you managed to do another video ?

Hi, sorry I'm not sure I've never had that issue

Hi, I've been messing with protein skimmers for quite a while and have noticed a few things with them on fresh water systems. Mine kicked in very quickly, within and hour it was producing foam, but its all dependent on the level of waste in your pond. I have been tinkering with DIY protein skimmers over the last 10 years and have noticed a few things that might be of help to you with setting them up. I prefer to tune mine first thing in the morning after a long period of no food or a large amount of fresh water going in, about 8 hours. It sounds strange but I have noticed that if you feed or do a water change the skimming effect drops off about 10 minutes later and will take a couple of hours to build back up again depending on how much oxygen you have going into the pond. If you tune it just after feeding when its producing the least amount you will find in the morning it will most likely be chucking a lot of water out and not so much in terms of foam. I still haven't figured out what actually causes this to happen but my thoughts are is adding food or anything else disturbs the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water and needs to build back up again, again just in my opinion Ozone is the next move for me and was actually the reasoning behind buying this unit, and will hopefully be going on sometime this year. thanks.

hi, that's a weeksii, not sure why he is so black in colour as they are usually a lot lighter in colour similar to a delhezi, when i bought him i thought that's the colour they were suppose to be as there were another 3 in the tank and all looked the same, but seeing images of others they seem to be a lot lighter in colour, good luck with your collection.

Thanks much bro, i just got delhazi last week. More comingg .

Merci

Hikari Cichlid gold sinking, the carnivore sinking is what is recommended but they won't eat it apart from one of the ornates, the cichlid gold seems to be the one they all eat, I also feed them prawns and lance fish, they really love a bit of ham chopped up into small pieces, not sure where they would get ham in the wild but it is what it is lol

not really, the same species will take a nip every now and then at each other but thats about it.

they are great fish but i only have two left now the large ornate and the endlicheri, i want to add more fish but its hard as these two are so big now and its not to easy finding large enough fish that will survive with them in there so will probably be re-homing these two soon, thanks

May I ask what happened to the others? Is the tank overstocked?

The tank wasn't over stocked, i always run double the filtration needed on both my tanks and pond even though one is good enough, i always run two filters just in case one goes down so just as a back up really, there was a bit of bulling going on with a few a of them which only started to happen as they matured, more so between the same species. It was very minor the bulling literally one might take a quick snap at the other and then nothing for hours but when one would take a quick nip at the other, the one on the receiving end what go and hide behind something for quite some time, but from what i have experienced no damage was ever caused and half the time their was no contact, they are hardy looking fish but quite skittish and scare easily. To be honest the two i have left were wild caught imports which cost me a lot more to purchase, the others were random shop bought so not entirely sure of their breeding, two deaths were completely random as they were perfectly happy and eating the day before and dead in the tank the next morning on two separate occasions, no damage or anything that could be seen externally, the only things i could put it down to was either they were spooked and charged into the glass causing an internal issue or just bad genes. water perimeters are always perfect on this tank and i don't over feed.

Hi, i believe they were amazon swords, the tank wasn't really set up for plants, i just had them pushed into gravel and used a jbl clay ball to offer the plants some nutrients, to be honest they were fairly cheap plants that if they started to die off after a few months i would just replace. I read somewhere the reason my ones had long pointy leaves is because my lighting wasn't up to scratch so the leaves would grow this way which i didn't mind as it gave the bichirs more shade. Never really had a problem with the bichirs up rooting plants, what would happen occasionally is a few of my bichirs would get fed up if the lights were on for a long time and they would ram there heads into the gravel for some darkness and if a plant happened to be in the way while there pushing then it would float up, apart from that they never really bothered the plants.

Thanks Michael Zak, I would want to have those Amazon sword planted on my bichir tank. I am not really into planted tanks but I just wanted some plants to take the nitrates away plus this plants are giving them soft hiding places as seen in your video.

I had a 98 also, and like clockwork as soon as she hit a 100,000 miles they started knocking, that's plastic tensioners for you. While your have the timing chains and tensioners done make sure to have a new water pump fitted at the same time, as its all in the same area and will save you a load of labour if it needs to be replaced at a later date, plus they virtually cost nothing

I found out that the XJR's do have the metal parts unlike the XJ8 because it is a different setup. I have gone to all of the Jaguar Forums and also see that a high rate of these cars engines blew at around 30-40K miles and Jaguar would actually replace the engines because they were still under warranty. I was able to see my tenioners after a hose let go under the intake and they looked to be very solid at this point, but still, piece of hard crappy plastic.. My XJR is here on my page if you want to see it, do you still have your Jag? Are you in the States? Thx..

its not really an issue but the nose cone kit came with the car and i am changing the oil in the supercharger, i might as well do it right.

Hi Elvis, i know she is very dark, you can see some pattern up close in certain angles but she does look black most of the time, she is a Polypterus Weeksii, thanks

Hi, its a juwel rio 300 350L 120x51x62cm height, thanks for watching

Michael Zak were they 14" in this video. I have a 75 gallon also with just 2 senegals and an African leaf fish and that's all there will be, and was wondering if it will be big enough. They maybe look to be about 12" in the video to me.

75 gallon will not be big enough for two.