wrote in message
oups.com...
Laughing here... "I love it, the simplicity of design, the elegance of
the milk crate, the merging of the Flintstonian period with the 21st
century is a nuclear mind bomb!"

For those who REALLY want to know the one and only waterfall filter
that is worth the time to install it you can find it here.
http://www.pondkoi.com/pond_products...ll_filters.htm

It is rigid; the sides won't collapse causing the sides to bow in like
all other filters. Why go to all the trouble to install a filter only
to have the lid not fit in a week as the ground settles? We have tried
them all in our over 300+ pond and watergarden installations. Please
trust me on this no matter where you purchase a waterfall filter.


Anyone can buy a prebuilt pond, and prebuilt filter, and have a pond that
looks like everyone else's. Us DIYers like to build, because we believe we
can do the same task either better, cheaper, or just want to learn and
experiment with some ideas. I spent some time googling for various pond
filters, both commercial, and DIY, I evalulated my pond's needs and I felt I
could build one for less money then it would cost me to buy a premade
filter.

In it's current version i have I have a settling tank, a mechanical/bio
filter, veg filter and more aeration then I had when I first moved to this
house. My cost? a few feet of schedule 40 pipe, a few couplers, and elbows.
2 plastic drums (free), some hose, 2 milk crates from a resturant, and a few
cinder blocks. The beauty is that it's all hidden behind the waterfall, so
it doesn't have to look pretty, it just has to do the job.

-S