New Filter Medium ?
Frogs. Just flushed through my bottom drain fed vortex & 2 high velocity
frogs shot out of the pipe & then emptied my first filter chamber & 4 more came out & hopped off. If they make it through the other 4 chambers & the pump without getting mashed they'll get a nice tan in the UV filter ! Me thinks this is going to be a problem. |
New Filter Medium ?
Last year I had a leopard frog get sucked into the intake pipe leading to my
pump: it ruined a $26 check valve, mostly because I was too sqeamish to take a pair of needle nose plyers and extract him piece-meal. Yuck. I went to my local Lowes, to the area where they have all the landscaping plumbing, and purchased a strainer that's designed to fit into pipes in atriums to strain out mulch. Then I glued a "test cap" for 4" PVC to the open end and voila! a frog strainer! It fit right over the end of my intake pipe. I had tried strainer baskets over the end previously, but they clogged too easily. This has nice open areas, but too small for froggies. FYI, when I cleaned out my biofalls last spring, I found 6 koi fry: they made it through my pump strainer, the bead filter, my UV, 20' to the biofalls, and through 3 layers of filter pad, 2 bags of lava rock and a bag of activated charcoal to swim around in the top! Determined little buggers! Lee "AndyD" wrote in message om... Frogs. Just flushed through my bottom drain fed vortex & 2 high velocity frogs shot out of the pipe & then emptied my first filter chamber & 4 more came out & hopped off. If they make it through the other 4 chambers & the pump without getting mashed they'll get a nice tan in the UV filter ! Me thinks this is going to be a problem. |
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