On Thu, 26 Jun "Tom La Bron" always the skeptic wrote:

You know everyone who touts salt in the water posts the URLs from various
sources, but the thing that is interesting is that these degreed people are
dealing with aquaculture facilities not ponds.
snipped soapbox and personal attacks on other rec.ponders past and
present
These "people" are leaders in their fields, but there are helping
aquaculture facilities not home ponders with keeping their KOI.

The vets I spoke of were the ones who are working closely with the program
of training the AKCA's Koi Health Advisors, and do make house calls and
work with koi ponds. For a website www.akca.org all about koi & keeping
them (but then you know that). Plus, the latest koi health book yet to hit
the shelves (but is already available to the KHA's) is called: Advanced Koi
Care by Dr. Nick Saint-Erne. He's a vet, probably does work with other
aquaculture situation, so perhaps he doesn't know anything either regarding
backyard koi ponds? ;o)

Rod has posted them and again and again

Kind of a cut low to attack someone who is in the process of moving and
can't respond. ~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

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