safendoulis
Koi Lover
Oct 24, 2005, 2:32 AM
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Re: [APLBW] Midges in filter system
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Yeah... I tried Midgex (from PetMart) but it was of no use. I then got that white powder from Nippon which worked like a charm for about a week. Not much good when you need to starve your fish for 2 days afterwards... I was not told to starve them beforehand as somebody mentioned in the forum? I experimented with small fish in the filter, I have some kind of Gurami 3-4 per chanber now. Of course I have so many midges its hard to say if these fish are making a dent in the problem or not. I do see them eating something and if midges are washed off the filter walls into water on the surface they do come up and eat them. I can only assume they are reducing the problem. What I did do is stop the midges getting in/out of the filyter chambers by putting a fine mesh cover over the top held on with magnetic strip. I double layered it actually. This really cut down the flying midges around the filter. Since the adult midges appear each morning in large numbers around the filter chamber walls, above the water line, I use the garden hose to flush them down into the water surface. Presumably the fish eat them because the don't seem to accumulate day to day. I have been considering experimenting with Archer Fish too. I have about 8 in my 4,000L pond and they are great at grabbing anything that even thinks about landing on the surface. The Koi seem to leave them alone too. They are too fast for them to catch anyway I'd imagine. My thinking was that an Archer Fish in each chamber would shoot the midges off the filter walls then eat them. I'm not sure if the Archer Fish will eat the other fish but I'm willing to try it and see. Archer Fish will even eat large grasshoppersif I throw them into the pond.
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