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Koiman's family lived in the swamplands of Ark. Wet weather in the winter brought squirrels to the trees and fish under the house. The fish were fed corn on the cob through the floor of the house so they would return the next flood season.
Koiman's mother was full blooded Cherokee and thought of squirrels and fish as good food so she made every effort to keep them in abundant supply. Surrounding land use improvements stopped the flooding in the winter so finished the wintertime fish supply. Mom wanted a fish pond....
Koiman said "NO PROBLEM". He dug a hole, filled it with swamp water and added fish. "There you go" The Fish Died. Over and over again he tried to get fish to live in that old pond. To NO avail.
Koiman at the time was only educated on how to live with nature. The swamp, woods, animals, fish and nature's surroundings were his only world. He tried everything he knew plus all of the experiments he could think of to keep the fish healthy. The old pond failed miserably. The Pond Filter Obsession was Born.
Koiman watched the streams and fish and constantly tried new things on his pond. Mother nature's streams were clean and clear and the fish were healthy. Why can't I duplicate that environment in a Pond?
Electricity finally got to the swamplands and aquariums were used for experiments, after all an aquarium is only a pond out of the hole.
The years between 1938-1977 were spent researching and evaluating pond and aquarium filters in search of the easiest, most effective system of filtering water to the same standards of quality that Mother Nature provides.
Around 1938 a team of engineers discovered that STREAM BEDS were what filtered stream water, in fact, that the bacteria living in the stream bed was "naturally" removing harmful chemicals and gasses from the water.
Studies concluded that beneficial bacteria attach themselves to the pieces of the stream bed. Water rolls (not slides) down the stream causing 100% of the water to pass through the spaces allowing the bacteria to work.
Moving water gathers oxygen at the surface and rolls the oxygenated water to the oxygen loving bacteria in the top layer of the stream bed.
Top Layer Bacteria
Top bacteria actually eat all of the decaying organic matter which produce detrimental gasses. (Ammonia,Nitrates,Methane,Etc.) the top bacteria use up oxygen and release carbon dioxide which flows to the second layer of bacteria.
Bottom Layer Bacteria
Carbon dioxide loving bottom bacteria use the carbon dioxide to turn the detrimental gasses into beneficial gasses that are used in plant food production.
The water is then returned to the surface for another load of oxygen, so goes the system.
Filter System Key
The real trick was to create a FILTER SYSTEM that maintained the "NATURAL BALANCE" of top and bottom bacteria. When the bacteria are out of balance, the water will reflect the imbalance by turning green or killing the fish with lethal gas levels.
These findings were used to experiment with water flow, gravel size, gravel depth, pond shape, pond depth, etc. to achieve the ultimate goal of having beautiful, healthy fish in a totally controlled artificial habitat that mirrors Mother Nature's. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUEBuy Clearwater Biological Filter Now!
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