"FBCS" wrote in message
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Yes BV, I'm sold. My new bigger pond in 2004 will have two veggie
filters.
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I really can't claim to be too smart on this topic, as I am just ending my
first season. I can say that in all my research my little brain quickly
decided a VF was the most natural, and therefore the best way to go. Aside
from the little clay fiasco of 2003, my water makes gin look dirty. All
checkables are at or near 0, so I am quite happy. I guess when the pond pigs
get big, I may need more filtration, but I think if I measured, I'd already
find that my VF (surface area, that is) is probably about 30-40% of my main
pond. I am good for now. Let those nuts with the bio-balls babble, us VF'ers
are the cool ponders.

BV.

P.S. Ask me about this again in the spring, when I have to do my first
cleaning. I may turn to the nut side after that.