Koilady
February 27th 11, 07:51 PM
On Jan 24, 7:47*pm, zad2110 >
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am fairly new to ponds and fish keeping. My step father and I built
> our pond two summers ago and last summer it started leaking and we were
> unable to find the leak. This spring or summer we are planning on
> completely redoing our pond and try and do a better job of making a
> filter. *We plan to put in a bottom drain at about 3 feet and we plan to
> have about 1500 gallons total in the pond. *We have a pre-filter box
> with some filter media to keep leaves and bigger stuff from clogging the
> pump. I have been watching a lot of videos on DIY biofilters and would
> like to know how big of a bio filter we would need to make for this size
> of a pond with around 8 goldfish and 3 koi. (i do not need my water to
> be extremely clean or anything i just want it to be better than it was
> last year when we couldnt see 1 foot down for most of the summer) My
> original thought was to make two filters from big flower pots and
> position them above where i want the waterfall and then have them run
> into the waterfall pond before going into the big pond. Any advice I can
> get would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
>
> --
> zad2110
Hi Zad. I'm been in the pond hobby for almost 30 years now. I've got
a great diagram for a bio-filter. The bio-media never has to be
cleaned and if you have a bottom drain, all you have to do is backwash
about once a month or every six weeks and clean the window screening
at the top of the filter which traps debris.
Yours Koily, Lorraine
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am fairly new to ponds and fish keeping. My step father and I built
> our pond two summers ago and last summer it started leaking and we were
> unable to find the leak. This spring or summer we are planning on
> completely redoing our pond and try and do a better job of making a
> filter. *We plan to put in a bottom drain at about 3 feet and we plan to
> have about 1500 gallons total in the pond. *We have a pre-filter box
> with some filter media to keep leaves and bigger stuff from clogging the
> pump. I have been watching a lot of videos on DIY biofilters and would
> like to know how big of a bio filter we would need to make for this size
> of a pond with around 8 goldfish and 3 koi. (i do not need my water to
> be extremely clean or anything i just want it to be better than it was
> last year when we couldnt see 1 foot down for most of the summer) My
> original thought was to make two filters from big flower pots and
> position them above where i want the waterfall and then have them run
> into the waterfall pond before going into the big pond. Any advice I can
> get would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
>
> --
> zad2110
Hi Zad. I'm been in the pond hobby for almost 30 years now. I've got
a great diagram for a bio-filter. The bio-media never has to be
cleaned and if you have a bottom drain, all you have to do is backwash
about once a month or every six weeks and clean the window screening
at the top of the filter which traps debris.
Yours Koily, Lorraine