"John Rutz" wrote in message
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J.D. Stone wrote:
I put a 150 gallon rubbermaid on mine, patterned after skippystuff
filter.
No pea green and no string algae (except in the filter). Water stays
clear.
However, it did clog the other day. Too many pecan "blossoms?" (stringy
beaded dammits) blocked the exit grid and it pumped down. Pump wasn't on
the
bottom but I have shelves and a "lot" of lilies. Some of the fish got
trapped on the shelves and died. I'd had them over six years. Time to
rework
the pond. Anybody tried the bog filter featured in this months "Water
Gardening"?
JD
http://www.nrgy.com/pond.htm



saw that article several of us use bog type filters but keep our plants
in pots some with just dirt, some with kittie litter and some with rocks
of various sizes, bigger rocks if koi can get into the filter

the amount of gravel and concrete blocks he used scared me !!!

Right, not my VF is bog like, but I am using pots...I plan to start reducing
pots over time, and see how the plants do without them. I am trying to come
up with an anchor system/idea, whereby using weights I can keep the plants
at depth and in an area, and then just have the roots dangling in the
water...I am thinking maybe a light frame system of some sort...

BV.