How odd is my design?
It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to
my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? -- BenignVanilla Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. tibetanbeefgarden.com Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. |
How odd is my design?
Nope ... my pump sits on a shelf across the pond from the
Veggie Filter. Nedra http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "BenignVanilla" m wrote in message ... It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? -- BenignVanilla Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. tibetanbeefgarden.com Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. |
How odd is my design?
Hmm that's a good idea.
BenignVanilla wrote: It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? -- BenignVanilla Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. tibetanbeefgarden.com Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. |
How odd is my design?
BenignVanilla wrote: It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? My question is (from a newbie perspective) is: Why do people use a separate VF at all? Why not just partition off a portion of the pond for veggies, and plant them there? I don't quite understand the reason for having a separate box/bucket/pond/whatever for the VF... Any clues for me? Kelly |
How odd is my design?
Kelly,
You can do the fencing off, but most of us end up wanting more pond. We start small, build a new pond the next year, build another a couple of years down the road, and if we could, we would have a pond big enough that there would be no grass to mow. The veggie filter gives us the ability to have the plants to help with the filtration, and still give the maximum size pond that we can get without digging another hole. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Kelly E Jones" wrote in message ... BenignVanilla wrote: It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? My question is (from a newbie perspective) is: Why do people use a separate VF at all? Why not just partition off a portion of the pond for veggies, and plant them there? I don't quite understand the reason for having a separate box/bucket/pond/whatever for the VF... Any clues for me? Kelly |
How odd is my design?
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:48:10 -0500, Kelly E Jones wrote:
BenignVanilla wrote: It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? My question is (from a newbie perspective) is: Why do people use a separate VF at all? Why not just partition off a portion of the pond for veggies, and plant them there? I don't quite understand the reason for having a separate box/bucket/pond/whatever for the VF... Any clues for me? Kelly Koi are killers of vegatation. Mine will uproot and eat most any plant in the pond if they can get hold of it. Well, eat /parts/ of them, commonly the roots, but what good is a plant without roots? Got a goldfish pond? Plant wherever you wish. Besides, a close knit root system in a veggie filter acts as a mechanical filter, too, and catches lots of fine crud that would otherwise be suspended in your water everywhere. Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P. Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P. "Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y. Barely Tolerated Wizard, A.J.L & A.A.L |
How odd is my design?
A filter section of the pond provides mcuh of what a veggie filter does,
but... We think of the veggie filters as adding 1. plants to grab nutrients...as can plants in the pond (we have lots there too) 2. a place for slowly moving water and sedimentation that we then drain by bottom drains in the veggie filters....hard to do in the pond unless there is a separate bottom drain and bowl shape under the veggie filter portion. Also, koi stir up muck. That is good, unless it is where we want the sedimentation to take place 3. A place where thick roots can filter muck and hold it til we flush and drain. Hard to do in the pond. 4. Small ponds where babies or tropicals can reproduce in thick vegitation without being eaten up. Hard to do in the main pond. 5. Pretty and able to have distinctive vegitation (Our 5 small ponds/veggie filters each have differen plants). J -- ______________________________________________ See our pond at: home.bellsouth.net\p\pwp-jameshurley Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per child) at: jogathon.net ______________________________________________ "BenignVanilla" m wrote in message ... It occurred to me today...I am going to be pumping water from my filter to my reservoir pond, and the pond will then gravity feed the filter. How bass ackwards is this? Does anyone else have a pump in their VF? -- BenignVanilla Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. tibetanbeefgarden.com Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. |
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