"AngrieWoman" wrote in message
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Thanks to all of you who post pictures - you've helped me immensely
already.

I'm trying to design a little veggie filter for my little pond. It seems
to
me that I will need to pump the water into the bottom then have it flow
from
a fitting near the top in order to get it to filter through the media.

Is that right? I've looked at several sets of plans but they all look to
me
like they have the water coming in the top and flowing out the bottom. It
seems like that would make it hard to keep the tub filled with an amount
of
water suitable for the plants.

I think I can safely say, I have the simplest VF on the group. I built a
second pond, that is only 8-14 inches deep. The water is fed into the VF at
one end by a pipe attached to the bottom drain in the pond, so my VF is
gravity fed. My pump sits at the far end of the VF and pumps the water back
to the pond. No large matter stuff gets to my pump because the Veggies grab
them as they go by. One pipe in...one out...water level auto-maintained by
gravity (tm).

BV.