Perhaps if any new info comes out on KKU some members could post a link here to that info. I was and still am interested in any and all filters. I have already spent a lot of hours reading all the info Novak provided and past threads in different forums over many years. I read them back in the day and I reread them again this time around. I just don't have the time, or is my interest that high, that I can spend more time following Novak around hoping that he might release even a little bit of the test results he said found in his 16-25 years of research.
The system is already fully explained.
I respect Novak's right to try and sell his work but it looks to me like he has already, in years past, fully explained how to set up his system. It's a very simple system, cheap enough, and he has already fully explained his theory on how the system should work. So for anyone wanting to set up a pond I think he's completely explained the system.
The only part missing is test results that explain cycling conditions like temp, pH, etc., and expected cycle times, expected results. All that I don't think is needed for people who want to install the system and aren't concerned about when they might see results, or if it doesn't cycle what adjustments would be needed to get it to cycle.
Every filter goes thru this, from the magnet algae removers to Bakki shower. When Skippy for example first came out it was was state of the art and there were the same flame wars there always are, always will be. But believers and experimenters tried the filter. As test data started being published people started to understand Skippy's strengths and weaknesses. They learned what kinds of ponds it worked better in and which that it didn't. They learned how it could be improved and where the dead ends were. If everyone just accepted that Skippy was the perfect filter there would have been no reason to test it, and there would have been no reason to develop new filters. And there are many people today who aren't interested in test results and still think Skippy is state of the art. That's fine...for them.
Today Bakki shower is one of the state of the art filters. People debate and theorize it's pros and cons, they call each other names, they test it to try and prove their points on both sides. Yeah, it can get ugly, it's human nature when people care about something, but the hobby moves forward.
People saying test data doesn't matter, debate doesn't matter, well that's fine for you. Today you get to enjoy the benefits of EPDM liner, UV filters, bogs, Trickle Towers, Moving Bed filters, better fish, CFI outlets and a million other little things that all went thru this same process of testing, debating and name calling. All the innovations you enjoy and take for granted came about by a lot of hard work by a lot of people. So you could sit back, enjoy our pond and post your self righteous indignation about people trying to improve your life even more. It's easy to not get into serious and frank discussion and arguments when you don't care about the details. Pretty easy to be Miss Manners when apathetic on a subject.
So go out there and prove all the skeptics wrong...
Novak wanting to sell his test data is his choice but that's not generally how inventors make money. Normally something like this would be patented and licenses sold. The test data is used to increase the value of the license. It isn't kept secret unless of course it would lower the value. For example if the test data was released for the claim of dropping nitrate and phosphate to zero in 15 days and it could be confirmed by independent tests (that's how it works in science) then Novak would be very rich in short order and also be the most famous person in the pond keeping community for many years which would open more doors for him. There would such an avalanche of praise and awards that all of his detractors would be ridiculed.
Zero nitrate and phosphate in 15 days would be a tremendous achievement. I would think fans of Novak would like to see him get the recognition you think he deserves. If Novak won't release the data for whatever reason, why not do the test yourself and post the results? It's a super easy and cheap test to perform. The more fans who post results, and the better documented the data, the more other people will become interested. Seems like you'd be doing Novak and this hobby a great favor if you can show it works.
But installing this system in a pond with a ton of plants and 6 months later saying nitrate levels aren't super high is not really very compelling. Veggie filters are already very well tested and understood. Anoxic isn't suppose to be a veggie filter or a bog...so show that. Time for you to step up and put something into the hobby.
