Untill the 'guru' appears I do have two smaller ponds and an opinion. 'Da
boss' may well show up and say just the opposite of me - in which case I'm
sure his suggestions are best. As I recall you have quite a distance to
push your water. In the absence of numbers on that page I would be dubious
as to whether it has the head to push that distance and have much flow rate
left at all. Many of these storebought filters are essentially biological
filters. The coarse filter mats are primarily to catch large clumps of dead
algae, leaves, poop and the like. Of course, there are the high dollar bead
filters. Even then, I believe sparkling clear ponds will usually have a lot
of floating particulates, compared to an aquarium. My first guess would be
this might work for you biologically. Many ponders would just make their
own bio filter with say a 5000 gph mag pump. My knowledge wanes even more
at this point but I would say an additional large Rena or the like(by the
tank of course) might be called for to really get your water clear and allow
for chemical filtration. That's my story and I'm stickin to it
Bill

"John " wrote in message
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http://www.tetra-fish.com/catalog/category.aspx?id=126

Do you think this will work for my big tank? Think it will be as noisy as
a
swimming pool filter?

JOhn