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New Pond Stuff?
The top of my bio-falls filter is densely planted with mint, water iris,
poppy and about anything else I can throw in it. So, it does have a "veggie" component to it. I'm pushing 3,000 gallons per hour through it. I've never had a problem with it clogging up. My annual cleaning is just a rite of spring I guess. "Jim and Phyllis" wrote in message ... Any chance you could go to a veggie filter of some sort? We moved away from lava rock because it got clogged so fast that it seemed functionally to be just rocks! Screen has lots of surface and still let water through. Mostly, however, we have gone to a veggie filter because the roots are such good surfaces and pull nutrients as well. The slow flow through and the roots pull out most of the solids as well, providing mechanical filtration. Jim |
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Have fun with the rites of spring!
I was wondering how big your veggie filter is? The rule of thumb is 10% of the surface. We use water celery and hyacinth...lots of roots. They provide good bacterial surface and mechanical filtration. We have some iris in the top of an upflow barrel. It does not have loads of root surface. Our mint was better, but still less than the hyacinth and water celery (want some?). Flow rate is pretty important for us. We have the flow down to be slow enough to allow settling (about 45 minutes). How fast doe yours go through your filter? Jim |
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Jim,
I'm using a bio-falls filter, sized for ponds 4,000 gallons+. It serves dual purposes by providing bio/mechanical filtration and as a water fall. It doesn't provide enough surface area to meet the requirements for use as a veggie filter. JB "Jim and Phyllis" wrote in message ... Have fun with the rites of spring! I was wondering how big your veggie filter is? The rule of thumb is 10% of the surface. We use water celery and hyacinth...lots of roots. They provide good bacterial surface and mechanical filtration. We have some iris in the top of an upflow barrel. It does not have loads of root surface. Our mint was better, but still less than the hyacinth and water celery (want some?). Flow rate is pretty important for us. We have the flow down to be slow enough to allow settling (about 45 minutes). How fast doe yours go through your filter? Jim |
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I haven't seen a biofalls. How does it work?
Jim |
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I couldn't find a good link to information on the biofalls but you can get
an idea of how it's configured here ---- http://truepump.com/bfsp.htm This is not the best picture of the biofalls but you can see how I have it planted with mint and such in this shot. http://www.tinypic.info/files/77xipnu171wa1i57cvma.jpg JB "Jim and Phyllis" wrote in message ... I haven't seen a biofalls. How does it work? Jim |
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I haven't seen a biofalls. How does it work?
Jim Jim, I think Aquascapes came out with the first biofalls (or perhaps the best marketing of such a set up). http://www.patios4you.com/images/diagram1.gif Or google images of biofalls, lots of pictures. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Ah, A tank with a flat exit surface. OK
I understand how it is not a veggie filter! Jim |
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or build a really looooong filter. the "stuff" settles out. this year I have the
celery in an in the pond filter sitting on the shelf where the lily sat and under the plastic and went great guns all winter even tho the plastic kept ripping and shifting and stuff froze on it. that celery is tough stuff. Ingrid On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:10:21 EST, Jim and Phyllis wrote: The rule of thumb is 10% of the surface. We use water celery and hyacinth...lots of roots. |
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