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Filtering my Clay Water
My father had an interesting idea this weekend, when I told him about my
orange water. We recently installed one of those collapsible pools that comes with a small cartridge style filter/pump. He suggested, I pump the pond through that filter for a day or so to suck the clay out. Even if I have replace the filter cartridge a few times, it may be worth it to get the clay out. We have not added chemicals to the pool yet, so I know the filter is "clean". Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. Don't forget the Full Lunar Eclipse tonight, for information on your time zone, see http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...003May15.html. |
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BenignVanilla wrote:
My father had an interesting idea this weekend, when I told him about my orange water. We recently installed one of those collapsible pools that comes with a small cartridge style filter/pump. He suggested, I pump the pond through that filter for a day or so to suck the clay out. Even if I have replace the filter cartridge a few times, it may be worth it to get the clay out. We have not added chemicals to the pool yet, so I know the filter is "clean". Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. Don't forget the Full Lunar Eclipse tonight, for information on your time zone, see http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...003May15.html. Might work. I know when I first started Roark suggested using a micron filter - I had to stop when I needed to replace the filter to often. -- Bonnie NJ http://home.earthlink.net/~maebe43/ |
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"BenignVanilla" m wrote: My father had an interesting idea this weekend, when I told him about my orange water. We recently installed one of those collapsible pools that comes with a small cartridge style filter/pump. He suggested, I pump the pond through that filter for a day or so to suck the clay out. Even if I have replace the filter cartridge a few times, it may be worth it to get the clay out. We have not added chemicals to the pool yet, so I know the filter is "clean". Any thoughts? You will be changing the filter or cleaning it every hour if you are lucky, more like every half hour. jay Thu, May 15, 2003 -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond Remove MYFRONTALLOBE to email me. Don't forget the Full Lunar Eclipse tonight, for information on your time zone, see http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...003May15.html. -- Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath: "Nevertheless, it does move." |
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"BenignVanilla" m
wrote: Any thoughts? Have you stopped the clay from entering? in a previous post, you indicated the clay is coming from your ground landscaping, and is continuing. Is any settling? You should have a bit collecting on the bottom of the pond at this point. |
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"John Hines" wrote in message
... "BenignVanilla" m wrote: Any thoughts? Have you stopped the clay from entering? in a previous post, you indicated the clay is coming from your ground landscaping, and is continuing. Is any settling? You should have a bit collecting on the bottom of the pond at this point. Maybe out of fear or something like that but the water has been clearer the past few days. *laugh* I have not yet stopped the leaching from the surrounding area, which is why I am hesitant to use anything like calcite or alum, just yet. I plan to finish the landscaping/grading this weekend, so the leaching stops. I figure once that is done, maybe I'll run the pool filter idea to see if it has any impact. I think I have resigned myself to just let it go naturally, after that. Much of it is slowly ending up in the VF where I can scoop it out, so it may just make sense to let it go naturally. Of course, me falling in like I did yesterday, does not help with the settlage. BV. |
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"BenignVanilla" m schreef
in bericht news:ba2q46$oh4m6$2@ID- Of course, me falling in like I did yesterday, does not help with the settlage. Erm... LOL ! Of course only *cough* stupid people do something like that *cough* ! But it's 5 days ago, and it was only my head in the water LOL, so I'm pretty smart again ;-) Fish were looking like "oooh, the boss, he finds something new everyday doesn't he ?" |
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"Theo van Daele" wrote in message
... "BenignVanilla" m schreef in bericht news:ba2q46$oh4m6$2@ID- Of course, me falling in like I did yesterday, does not help with the settlage. Erm... LOL ! Of course only *cough* stupid people do something like that *cough* ! But it's 5 days ago, and it was only my head in the water LOL, so I'm pretty smart again ;-) Fish were looking like "oooh, the boss, he finds something new everyday doesn't he ?" I was trying to set some rocks...and I miscalculated the sliminess of the clay/algae mixture on the liner. BV. |
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"BenignVanilla" m
wrote: I figure once that is done, maybe I'll run the pool filter idea to see if it has any impact. I think I have resigned myself to just let it go naturally, after that. Much of it is slowly ending up in the VF where I can scoop it out, so it may just make sense to let it go naturally. If it is settling, then you won't need to do anything else, once it stops coming in. And yes, being stirred up. And your VF will get more effective as the plant roots grow. |
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"John Hines" wrote in message
... "BenignVanilla" m wrote: I figure once that is done, maybe I'll run the pool filter idea to see if it has any impact. I think I have resigned myself to just let it go naturally, after that. Much of it is slowly ending up in the VF where I can scoop it out, so it may just make sense to let it go naturally. If it is settling, then you won't need to do anything else, once it stops coming in. And yes, being stirred up. And your VF will get more effective as the plant roots grow. I am afraid if I just leave it on the bottom, the fishes will stir it up constantly. I'll just have to wait and see. BV. |
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Add gypsum to your pond and get your GH up to 10 degrees and the clay
will drop out (assuming new stuff isn't entering) Worked for me! My problem now is high levels of dissolved organics, but the plants should take care of that when they all get kickin' |
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"BenignVanilla" m
wrote: "John Hines" wrote in message .. . "BenignVanilla" m wrote: I figure once that is done, maybe I'll run the pool filter idea to see if it has any impact. I think I have resigned myself to just let it go naturally, after that. Much of it is slowly ending up in the VF where I can scoop it out, so it may just make sense to let it go naturally. If it is settling, then you won't need to do anything else, once it stops coming in. And yes, being stirred up. And your VF will get more effective as the plant roots grow. I am afraid if I just leave it on the bottom, the fishes will stir it up constantly. I'll just have to wait and see. Anything you add, is simply going to make it settle faster, or make more things settle. You shouldn't have that much settling on the bottom, with a drain, so as you say, scoop it out of the VF. But yes, patience is what you need at this point. |
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BV,
the koi will stir it up, and that is good. Each time it settles, it will settle closer to the bottom drain and eventually find its way to the VF, where the plant roots will help filter it out, make it settle where it is easier to remove. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "BenignVanilla" m wrote in message ... "John Hines" wrote in message ... "BenignVanilla" m wrote: I figure once that is done, maybe I'll run the pool filter idea to see if it has any impact. I think I have resigned myself to just let it go naturally, after that. Much of it is slowly ending up in the VF where I can scoop it out, so it may just make sense to let it go naturally. If it is settling, then you won't need to do anything else, once it stops coming in. And yes, being stirred up. And your VF will get more effective as the plant roots grow. I am afraid if I just leave it on the bottom, the fishes will stir it up constantly. I'll just have to wait and see. BV. |
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"BenignVanilla" m wrote in
message ... My father had an interesting idea this weekend, when I told him about my orange water. We recently installed one of those collapsible pools that comes with a small cartridge style filter/pump. He suggested, I pump the pond through that filter for a day or so to suck the clay out. Even if I have replace the filter cartridge a few times, it may be worth it to get the clay out. We have not added chemicals to the pool yet, so I know the filter is "clean". See if you can get your hands on a 55 gal drum, slowly pump the water from the bottom of the pond, and run the hose into the bottom of the drum. Then at the top of the drum have a siphon hose leading back to the pond. This way you can make a settling chamber. Stack milk crates inside of the drum, to slow the rate at which the water in the drum is moving, that will help things settle. Also put a flow restrictor on the pump, like a section of 3/4 inch pipe. Sameer -- Sameer change the two in my email address to a 2, when replying |
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Filtering my Clay Water
when doing soil tests in the lab, my students have to let the clay fraction settle
overnight. the clay needs to be precipitated to get it out of pond water. Ingrid |
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"RichToyBox" wrote in message
news:dHfxa.612753$OV.572830@rwcrnsc54... BV, the koi will stir it up, and that is good. Each time it settles, it will settle closer to the bottom drain and eventually find its way to the VF, where the plant roots will help filter it out, make it settle where it is easier to remove. Rich, you have had piles of good suggestions on this thread, and I know you are right. I am just impatient. I want to see the pond bottom. *laugh* 75% of me says wait it out. 25% still wants to go buy some calcite. BV. |
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