A thoughtful Christmas gift for the koi lover in your life.
Practical……..beautiful………collectable……..useful.
High gloss, and dishwasher safe, a lovely gift to enjoy while sat beside your pond, relaxing with a cuppa.
An imaginative koi gift for less than £10 including p&p!!
Shiro Utsuri Mug
Money is tight, there is no denying it, that is why it is even more important this Christmas that you find that special ‘something’ that does not cost the earth.
These mugs are a wonderful option, for the koi lover in your life.
There are currently over 20 different varieties to choose from, so if you cannot find it on this page please call Anne on 01673 828811 and see if it is available.
Each mug has an illustration of one koi variety, there is one on either side and also the Japanese symbol for the show class for that variety.
All of the artwork has been lovingly developed for each of the mugs by noted Koi Artist Anne Read and each variety is shown with it’s best attributes.
The Japanese symbols where hand written for Anne by the mother of the owner of the Konishi Koi Farm in Japan, as a thank you for the very special painting of a champion koi that they had bred.
Each mug costs £7.99 postal charges are £1.95 per mug ( the cost of postage reduces the more mugs you buy.
Postal Charges
1 x mug £1.95 2 x mugs £3.50 3 x mugs £5.50 4 x mugs £6.95
To obtain one (or more) of these stunning and highly collectable mugs you can:
Call Anne Read on 01673 828811 with your koi mug choice and credit/debit card details.
Email Anne Read on anne@koiart.co.uk and pay through PayPal
Find them on eBay at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Eazy-Pets
Or note the varieties you like and return with a cheque made payable to:
Cedar Lodge Koi
and post to:
Cedar Lodge Koi,
Caistor Road,
Holton-le-Moor,
Lincolnshire.
LN7 6AH
Or last but not least call in at Cedar Lodge Koi and view the full collection before you buy.
Please order promptly for Christmas, to be assured of receiving your mugs.
If you have called before, then welcome back, it is nice to see you again.
New to this site then welcome, if you do not find what you are looking for then let us know, we really want you to be part of this site.
Here is hoping that you enjoy Koi keeping as much as we do.
Inside Cedar Lodge Koi, come rain or shine we are here for you.
The smallest filter in Evolution Aqua’s ’stable’ of koi pond filters is only 23″ high and 23″ high.
An incredible little bit of kit.
When you first meet an Eazy Pod the first thing that strikes you is the size, so small but incredibly powerful.
It looks like a grey dustbin with a bit tacked on the side, initially how can £395.00 be justified?
After all there is no UV fitted and no water pump, what makes it so special.
Lift the lid, some are amazed and others disbelieve that these little white ‘pieces of pasta’ can clean water so well.
The K1 media stands still all of the time in the Eazy Pod, unlike the Nexus.
It combines mechanical and biological efficiency in one media.
It lets the water flow through the media, cleaning it on route.
This lovely little filter will safely handle a pond up to (according to Evolution Aqua the manufacturer) 10,000 litres or 2,200 UK gallons.
The Eazy Pod is more concerned with the amount of food that the koi recieve in a day. Maximum of 100g.
Now for the good bit
Cleaning the Eazy Pod is what takes it from being good into fantastic.
Place the centre cleaning pipe down the centre, allow it to fill and isolate with the slide valve.
Turn that little black lever on the top.
Air from the airpump is released through the media, the media rotates in the water and shakes off its waste.
Personally, I go for a coffee while the media is rotating to clean, I leave it for at least 10 minutes.
When you are ready to get rid of the waste you just open the ball valve on the bottom, front.
The waste is flushed away, possibly onto your garden because it has excellent qualities for growing plants.
Turn off the air, refill, remove the cleaning pipe and your done.
No wet hands, no blanketweed splatters, no buckets of pond water to rinse the media, no hassle.
If you want an easy to maintain, discreet, easy fit filter: this is a no brainer. The Eazy Pod does the job and some.
When the weather gets warmer, our koi carp come into their own.
We admire them swimming around our ponds and wonder at these living jewels.
However, as the temperature increases, they begin to collect around the filter return, under the water fall or around the fountain.
What has gone wrong?
That is easy, a lack of oxygen in the pond.
The very simple fact is that a lack of oxygen can cost you money and your koi will suffer.
It can cost money through;
- The loss of koi, not only expensive but also heartbreaking
- When the koi lack oxygen they do not consume their food correctly, so wasted food is wasted money,
- A slow down in growth because they are in a stressed state (lacking in oxygen
If you have plants in the pond there is a double whammy in warm weather, not only are the koi on a higher uptake of oxygen; also in photosynthesis (the growth action of plants) plants take oxygen from water at night, so the oxygen demand is extremely high.
How do you get around this?
Really simple, buy an airpump, for a koi pond, not an aquarium air pump, but a pond airpump that gives at the very least 40 litres per second.
You can run an airpump in all but the coldest weather and they are really low wattage (if you buy a good one)
An airpump will;
- Keep your koi healthy.
- Help them to use their food properly.
- Help them to grow.