47,319 pageviews and 212 post latter… What
does all this mean; well its been one year now since KKU (Koi Keepers
Unleashed) in the UK closed its doors to its forum. After the forum was no
more, I decided to start a blog and what better place to start a blog on than…
Google, plus it was free and you can’t go wrong with free.
Now I know some of you are laughing at the
small numbers of pageviews and I really don’t have that many followers to speak
of, but this blog was not about how popular I became with imaginary likes or
dislikes from readers to support my superego or id. It was about getting the
word out about a filtration system that I thought would help the pond
hobbyist(s) in saving the lives of their valuable aquatic pets. I say aquatic
pets because not all hobbyists that use the AFS have just Koi or Goldfish as
pets but some have turtles and frogs too.
I also found out that a lot of people that
use an AFS are more “earth concuss” and enjoy the fruits-of-their-labors making
things by hand. The AFS is not something you can just buy out of a box and plug
in. It requires for the hobbyists to hand build the filter to their requirements
and their imagination is the only thing holding them back from a simple easy to
build filtration system to a very elaborate one that will rival the best
filtration systems out there. In other words, pride of ownership that you did
it and not someone else did it for you. That’s what makes this hobby so much
fun, the enjoyment of satisfying ones own gratification of accomplishments.
The most looked at website to get
information on the AFS has been Manky Sanke website in the UK.
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A special thanks to Dr. Franco of Italy for
his experiments on the AFS, may he find happiness wherever he is, RIP.
I also would like to say thanks to all those
that have contribute to the education of others on my blog that their
dedication of photos, pond videos and filtration builds help get the message
across to others better than I can alone. Shelly, Brian, Manky and Vogas’ to
name a few; living in different parts of the world have done so much to help
someone they don’t even know like myself. A big thanks for your contributions
to this hobby in educating others so they may follow in your footsteps. It’s
extremely hard to get the word out when there is so much opposition out there
that for vindictive reasons alone some would like to see the AFS just go away!
Too all my dedicated readers thanks for this first year of letting me bore you
with my esoteric writings. It’s also great that Google allows people like me to
blog for free and we must remember to keep the Internet that way forever.
Happy ponding,
Kevin
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