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Changes for Next Year
I'm seriously thinking of changing my lily pond pre-filter to be similar to
my koi pond's. I've been more lax than year's past cleaning my pre-filter on the koi pond. I will be cleaning it tomorrow, but I've only done it a couple of times this year, and I run all year around. The lily pond though I've had to clean about every 1.5 months, as DS did a different design. It has less fish, as in the equivalent of 1 to 9 to the koi pond. It is easier to clean, so I will have to give this some thought. Easier versus less often. ;-) What would you do? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Changes for Next Year
jan - I vote for less often. I do one cleaning of my filter pads every
spring. "~ jan" wrote in message ... I'm seriously thinking of changing my lily pond pre-filter to be similar to my koi pond's. I've been more lax than year's past cleaning my pre-filter on the koi pond. I will be cleaning it tomorrow, but I've only done it a couple of times this year, and I run all year around. The lily pond though I've had to clean about every 1.5 months, as DS did a different design. It has less fish, as in the equivalent of 1 to 9 to the koi pond. It is easier to clean, so I will have to give this some thought. Easier versus less often. ;-) What would you do? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:42:32 EDT, "JB" wrote:
jan - I vote for less often. I do one cleaning of my filter pads every spring. This weekend I cleaned both my lily pond & koi pond pre-filters and I realized why I may have to stick with the design, snails. :-( The koi pond has the bio-filter to keep them from the pump chamber and they never do get very big. The lily pond filter though only has the prefilter to keep snails from the pump chamber as I have the bio-media in the pump chamber. The ramshorn snails get to quite the pump-stopping size in there, even with my cleaning it out every 6 weeks because there are so many in the lily pond that get sucked into it after I clean. Perhaps once the goldfish get bigger they'll eat more, but currently I'm not seeing much of a dent in population. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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