Carl Beyer wrote:
Does a good veggie filter provide sediment filtration? If not, can it
be easily and low maintenance (ly) included? I have a 500 gallon that
is over stocked, and have to travel for work so sometimes a week will go
by witout picking out the leaves. Apparantly it was pretty windy while
i was gone, and a lot of leaves settled or got sucked up making for fine
debris in the pond...

My current filtration is a Fluidized Sand Filter (works amazing and home
built), a UV attached to that. and a seperate lava rock filter (trash
can filled with lava rock).

thanks to all for any advice


My veggie filter is 700 gallons. The first stage is filled
with polyester screening (like window screen) and that does
the mechanical filtration. The water from 2 ponds goes into
this, then the water flows through the plants and then
finally it enters the bioballs. From there it flows back
into the upper pond.

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