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7/4/2009
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| Two connecting ponds, total gallons with filters is 1850, my son & hubby put in the filter, using a Beckett submersible pump (2200 gph). The filter consists of four 55 gallon *juice* barrels bought at a junk yard. Gravity fed, horizonal flow, the water enters first barrel using 25 ft. of vinyl screen (for screen door replacement) as a prefilter, the water then goes to two parallel barrels filled with 8" of bio-foam (Eight 2’ X 3’sheets, 1" thick ), they feed into the last barrel with pump which shoots the water thru 1 1/2" PVC to the top of the water fall, 8 ft. of head. Water turn over is approx. 1 hour. For our filter configuration we used Koi, USA, as a reference & Aquatic Eco-Systems for various parts and then advice from the Koi Club I joined. |
| Keep it simple, keep it natural and keep it clear. I believe in incorporating the filter as a secondary pond. It is able to serve as a settling tank as well as a physical particle scrubber via the plant roots. Fish, in the secondary pool, will muck up the whole thing by stirring the particles back into suspension. I use three levels in my pond. The upper is just for plants and hatchery care, and the sediments build up here. The middle pool is strictly plants, 8 elephant ears a couple of years (well fed fish). |
| Kathy Thirtyacre USDA Zone 6ish, home of Rosie the water gardening labrador. Visit my brothers web site San Francisco based photographer ~ help support my nephew. http://members.aol.com/jj30a/30acrephoto.html These things can be placed just about anywhere. Ive got mine behind my garden shed. -- Chuck Rush Pond Rushes, http://www.dallas.net/~crush e-mail: crush_nojunkm...@dallas.net N. Texas Water Garden Society, http://www.cirr.com/~ntwgs Anti- note - to reply, remove the _nojunkmail from the address. |
| I have a large retention pond in north florida . i have just did some extesive lanscaping around it including bald cypress river birch live oaks weeping willows I am paused in the develop ment wile i kill any torpedo grass thats left and git rid of those damn cat tails almost all eliminated cept a few seedling coming back . i have plans to do perimiter plantings and some lillys and oxiginaters I plan to use giant bulrush , cannas, blue pickrle, duck potato, wich i can colect from other ponds but i really need some input on suppliers and the introduction of fish . any sugestions
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| This is going to be our project next spring and summer. I have been looking around the web for pond sites and having my husband look over the filter plans. He also made a field trip to Jans house to look at her filter. |
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