Personally I think they are very over rated, much hyped and have their pitfalls. The bottom of the outer chamber soon fills up with muck and as the drain outlet is slightly higher than this and has a "step" just before it it makes cleaning hard, unless you use a hose, and then of course you are killing the beneficial bacteria living on the K1.After cleaning its nigh on impossible not to end up with quite a lot of cloudy debris finding its way back into the pond as when you open the bottom drain again there is still a lot of trapped muck that finds its way out of the KI no matter how clean it looks. I was very disappointed with mine and to be honest I wish Id waited and saved for a Nexus 200 as these undoubtedly do a better job and have the benefit of better biological filtration by virtue of the fluidised K1. I think the pod would be good on a skimmer line and thats really its main selling point as far as Im concerned.
Posted on Apr 25, 2007, 10:57 AM from IP address 86.1.124.246