This is because the consequences of making a mistake, that is essential, right in the beginning are considerably more burdensome than with lots of other hobbies. If your pond for example, is badly built & develops a leak, say after a year, it will cost you substantial funds & work to resolve the issue. Not to mention the strain your Koi will take in the work of the method!
Do not jump in & build your pond until you are intimately familiar with the following terms:
# Mechanical filtration & why sand filters are bad
# Biological filtration
# The Nitrogen Cycle
# Nitrifying bacteria - what they are & what they do
# Heterotrophic & autotrophic bacteria
# Denitrifying bacteria - what they are & what they do
# Organic & inorganic waste products - what they are & what happens to them
Notice that I said you! You are the who has to live with the results. Your dealer will sell you more kit, your pond builder will build you another pond but the success of your pond rests with you! References to other systems that the dealer has sold, or other ponds & filtration systems that the pond builder has built count for tiny. Lots of people before you have bought the wrong thing - that doesn't mean that you ought to ! The Koi keeper in each of these 'references' is the final determination of success or failure & this can only be measured in years or better, decades.
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