Veggie filter musings

[Lostin1999]

for those that haven't seen it.. here's a few pics of me pond (as it
stands)

http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lostin1999/album?.tok=phgYCaBBIqixWLPm&.dir=/8a86&.src=ph

now having read on here of Veggie filters etc ive been having an idea...

along the back of the pond (where the fence is) I want to build a water
feature...

I also want a veggie filter..

so ive been toying with getting some galvanised planters (set of 5 matching
but getting smaller each time
(http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4309782118) and
setting them up in series.. the first as a settling tank, second and 3rd as
veggie filters and then 4 (poss veggie) or 5 angled to return the water to
the pond.. so I get a sort of fountain and large increase in surface
area... (number of pots depends on how many fit across the back)

anyone see any major flaws with my plan?? please speak now or forever be
asked for help as it all goes horrendously pearshaped??

Lost

[Go Fig]

Thats a fine idea. How do you plan to make spill-ways for them? If
you use tank adaptors I'd go with 1 1/2" PVC to allow for a fast
gravity fed flow.

It looks like your pond does not have an overflow drain? I'd consider
this so you can control the rain overflow, rather than it just spilling
out over the top.

jay
Sun Jul 11, 2004







In article >, Lostin1999
> wrote:

> for those that haven't seen it.. here's a few pics of me pond (as it
> stands)
>
>
> http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lostin1999/album?.tok=phgYCaBBIqixWLPm&.di
> r=/8a86&.src=ph
>
> now having read on here of Veggie filters etc ive been having an idea...
>
> along the back of the pond (where the fence is) I want to build a water
> feature...
>
> I also want a veggie filter..
>
> so ive been toying with getting some galvanised planters (set of 5 matching
> but getting smaller each time
> (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4309782118) and
> setting them up in series.. the first as a settling tank, second and 3rd as
> veggie filters and then 4 (poss veggie) or 5 angled to return the water to
> the pond.. so I get a sort of fountain and large increase in surface
> area... (number of pots depends on how many fit across the back)
>
> anyone see any major flaws with my plan?? please speak now or forever be
> asked for help as it all goes horrendously pearshaped??
>
> Lost
>
>

[Lostin1999]

"T-Cat" <robotryder at yahoo > wrote in message
...
> Sounds like a lot of work. My veggie filter is just another pond. See
> http://www.kittycentral.net/pond/Pond_2002June23_8_lg.jpg - that's the
> veggie filter. It lets out (via stream) into this other pond -
> http://www.kittycentral.net/pond/Stream2LowerPond_lg.JPG - which has the
> fish.
>
> Veggie filters needn't be ugly.


it may be a lot of work, but its sort of the best I can do with my pond
location (and home location, garden size etc)

anyway, isn't that what gardening is supposed to be about?? lots of work
then even more sitting back, chugging a <insert any chosen beverage here>
and enjoying the fruits of your labour (while thinking how much easier it
would have been not to have bothered...)

For me the sound of the water running etc is all part of the experience..
and as I have no room to make a stream elsewhere this looks like a plan to
gain that..

and Ugly is in the eyes of the beholder, what may seem ugly to you wont to
someone else... im going for a Very Ornamental look, (hence the square
corners to my pond) I feel this would add to my overall ornamental look and
keep similar lines...

[Lostin1999]

"Go Fig" > wrote in message
...
> Thats a fine idea. How do you plan to make spill-ways for them? If
> you use tank adaptors I'd go with 1 1/2" PVC to allow for a fast
> gravity fed flow.
>
> It looks like your pond does not have an overflow drain? I'd consider
> this so you can control the rain overflow, rather than it just spilling
> out over the top.
>

my plan was to beat the metal a little to create a "spout" for want of a
better word, as each is a size smaller, they will (I hope (I haven't got
them yet) sit under the rim of eachother and thus the water slow over my
"spout" and into the next one.. maybe with a little liner across to stop
seepage (might silicone them together to stop this too)

the other plan is a narrow wooden sided stream (with liner) (ladder like) to
get the same sort of effect, the water flowing from chamber to chamber...

I've passed these idea's off amongst a few friends.. and they seem to think
the wooden ladder idea is more in keeping with the pond as it is.. and
might well be the way forward..

me, I'm still throwing ideas about in my head each time another idea hits
me... I'm £500 UKP over budget on the pond at the moment, so all this is a
little future planning (maybe for next spring)

Lost

[Mickey]

I would get pvc pipe or galvanized plumbing to make the spout. The pipe
would be inexpensive and you wouldn't have to try and beat the tub out of
shape.

"Lostin1999" > wrote in message
...
> for those that haven't seen it.. here's a few pics of me pond (as it
> stands)
>
> http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lostin1999/album?.tok=phgYCaBBIqixWLPm&.dir=/8a86&.src=ph
>
> now having read on here of Veggie filters etc ive been having an idea...
>
> along the back of the pond (where the fence is) I want to build a water
> feature...
>
> I also want a veggie filter..
>
> so ive been toying with getting some galvanised planters (set of 5
> matching
> but getting smaller each time
> (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4309782118) and
> setting them up in series.. the first as a settling tank, second and 3rd
> as
> veggie filters and then 4 (poss veggie) or 5 angled to return the water to
> the pond.. so I get a sort of fountain and large increase in surface
> area... (number of pots depends on how many fit across the back)
>
> anyone see any major flaws with my plan?? please speak now or forever be
> asked for help as it all goes horrendously pearshaped??
>
> Lost
>
>

[GrannyGrump]

>> so ive been toying with getting some galvanised planters (set of 5
>> matching
>> but getting smaller each time

Want a cool looking filter set?

Get 3 or 4 oil changing pans, deep saucer shaped with a spout in one
end.

Set each one on graduated logs, rocks, etc, at a tilt.

Run your water to the top one...water will spill through the spout to
the next, and next, etc until it reaches the pond.

Put plants all around it if you like.