If you think it's easy getting the word out about the AFS, it isn’t! There are just too many hobbyists that would rather not let you know about the AFS because of ignorance and prejudice opinions.

Today is Wednesday the 19^th of February the second month of the year according to the Gregorian calendar and like all Wednesdays it was time to add water to my pond. I do this twice a week, every Wednesday and Saturday. But because it is a balmy day in the fifties, most of the snow is now melting, a great relief from such a cold and harsh winter we’ve had in Chicago. Next week though it’s back to the dead of winter once again with temperatures below freezing.

What I notice was three of my small 6" comet goldfish were dead and decomposing in my skimmer. They go over the waterfall from the Anoxic filter, which they are housed, into the main pond and the skimmer over powers them and sucks them in; once trapped they drowned in the skimmer basket. Its been so cold here in Chicago that looking every week at the skimmer was not possible until today. So as the pond was filling up with fresh water, I did water test with LaMotte test kits and disposed of the dead fish. All parameters were zero such as Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates and pH was 7.0. The Koi were swimming around as though winter had never come. The AFS handled the dead decomposing fish with ease and protected the big Koi from any danger that might have sent the pH into a crashing mode or raise the ammonia to killer toxic levels. With my smallish pond, three dead goldfish would become a disaster if evasive action weren’t taken right away. Once again the AFS pulled a rabbit out of the hat and protected my fish from overwhelming insults that could have spelled devastation to the ponds animals.

If you read my post about Mrs. Bibbins dilemma http://anoxicfiltrationsystem.blogspot.com/2014/02/this-is-reprint-from-mpks-newsletter-on.html and her pH crashing and ammonia problems, she lives in Charlotte North Carolina, which by Chicago standers is “the tropics”. She was given all kinds of remedies to her problem(s) except maybe change her filtration system to something that would not crash and needs no inoculation of bacteria after a cold winter. All the advices were old-time remedies that if we lived in 1931 she would have been given the same recommendations, except the bacteria additive that is newer and only about twenty-five years old.

It’s amazing in this day and age that with what is known, that we still give out old time remedies to our new high-tech problems. She was never told about an Anoxic filter, which Dr. Bob is very familiar with far the past twenty years now, or the suggestion that she read about it in the MPKS library. Instead, he kept silent and gave out old advice instead of new technology like the AFS. Her cry for “Knowledge is Power” I guess didn’t hit home with the good doctor and once again the AFS was kept silenced by those in the know. Dare we give a helping hand to someone that really needs it, begging for Knowledge? When information is withheld from the public, it then becomes a crime on humanity itself. I would sure hate to think that the one chance I had to life was withheld from me because someone didn’t want me to know about it because it worked and gave preferential treatment to information you weren’t prejudice against. Like his last statement to her says: “It forces you to learn new things on a constant basis…” How can one learn if you’re never told what knowledge you have to give?

If you think it's easy getting the word out about the AFS, it isn’t! There are just too many hobbyists that would rather not let you know about the AFS because of ignorance and prejudice opinions.