Ditto the other commentators who recommend more filtration.

You have something like 2300 gallons of pond water and 2 gallons in the
filter. Could you put in a veggie filter? The 'rule of thumb' is at least
10% of your present surface area. That would be about 16 sq ft of filter
surface...4 x 4 or more (Think 4 x 8 and have a small fry pond!). With lots
of plants to suck nutrients out and to provide biological surface.

Do your pads get very full, very fast? We run a slow flow through three
sequential sedimentation/veggie filter ponds. The flow takes about 35
minutes to clear the first. It is a 4 x 4 x 1.5 (180 gal) filled with
anacharis. You can see me building it on our website (right filter). I
used 2" x 10" x 8' boards and a roofing EDPM liner. You could stick one
where your falls are.

The two round VF's catch lots less junk...tho' the third is full of water
celery, whose thick roots grab everything. The slow flow clears the water
from the main pond very well. Our pump moves about 1500 gal/hr. Most of
our water flows through the other filter/falls.

Most of the pond junk drops out in our first (4 x 4) filter. We don't use
any pads and thus never have to wash them out. We run the drain once a
year, just before the new season. LOTS of muck flushes out. Actually, we
flush all our VF ponds and our 3 in-berm upflow 55 gal drums that feed the
VF ponds (4 x 4, two 5' kiddie pools and a 4 x 8 x 1.5) and get muck from
all of them, especially the VF's that are first in line from the pond.

Let us know what you decide.

Jim

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"Thenewguy" wrote in message
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hey, i have some questions about filtration. Please check out
Http://www.thehvscene.com/pond.htm first of all to see my pond and how my
filter is set up. its 2 1/4 horse power pumps pouring into a 2 gallon
hole
which feeds the waterfall....directly before the waterfall theres a thick
peice of material to catch any particles..is suffient enough for my pond?
i
have a 13x12x2feet deep. The water seems to be very brown/green with alot
of
brown (maybe dead) algea floating in pieces at the top of the water. Is my
waterfall creating too much of a disturbance in the water? Am i not
circulating enough water? should i construct a new kind of filter? what
ever
it is, im up for it. Please Help Me.