"Pet" wrote in message
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Hi.
Having moved house and adopted the established fish pond which had about
12 good sized fish + 2 small Tench. I have come across the following.

Lucky person. You look after it.

The previous owner buit his own filter using 3 water containers. The
first has lots of bits of offcut pipe, second stage is a simple
seperatoin type chamer, 3rd stage rises through a bed of gravel to the
pond.

Good design. If it worked for him then keep it. Filters can cost alot.

Anyway, in order to slow down the flow into the first stage rather than
water pumping straight out the overflow, I put half a dozen filter
brushes into the chamber. This worked fine, but now there are tiny
wiggly worms about 2" long and perhaps the thickness of a couple of
hairs. (red in colour)

Tubeflex worms or Bbood worms.
Are they a sign of something going wrong, will they endanger the fish,
should I remove the brushes as they seem to thrive in the bristles.

No, not really. They just appear in filters and streams. I get them. They
are proberly the lauve of something.

I hope through that it`s not the lauve of the `ekojatsuj`. I`ve seen it grow
to 6 feet long and have a moustach!
Look forward to your comments.

Enjoy!

Ta.
Pete


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