A filter section of the pond provides mcuh of what a veggie filter does,
but...

We think of the veggie filters as adding
1. plants to grab nutrients...as can plants in the pond (we have lots there
too)
2. a place for slowly moving water and sedimentation that we then drain by
bottom drains in the veggie filters....hard to do in the pond unless there
is a separate bottom drain and bowl shape under the veggie filter portion.
Also, koi stir up muck. That is good, unless it is where we want the
sedimentation to take place
3. A place where thick roots can filter muck and hold it til we flush and
drain. Hard to do in the pond.
4. Small ponds where babies or tropicals can reproduce in thick vegitation
without being eaten up. Hard to do in the main pond.
5. Pretty and able to have distinctive vegitation (Our 5 small ponds/veggie
filters each have differen plants).

J


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"BenignVanilla" m wrote in
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It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to
my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How
bass
ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF?

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