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Bog/Veggie filter ?
Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is
approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. TIA. Lucy |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
Hi Lucy, We route our water through a 150 gallon stock tank. Goes in at the bottom, flows up, out the top, thru holes my DH drilled, four large ones with pipes in them and then down our waterfall. In the top I float water hyacinths. I keep a waterproof rope around them that threads thru small holes in the side to keep them from blocking the outflow. They really grow and take off in there. They will get three feet high and have huge leaves so they are slurping up their share of fish nutrients! I have tried hanging water plant baskets over the sides filled with watercress but the mice ate it all! I also filled light grid with watercress stems and that really took off and worked great until the labradors decided to walk all over it and cracked it all up. kathy :-) A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
Hi Lucy, We route our water through a 150 gallon stock tank. Goes in at the bottom, flows up, out the top, thru holes my DH drilled, four large ones with pipes in them and then down our waterfall. In the top I float water hyacinths. I keep a waterproof rope around them that threads thru small holes in the side to keep them from blocking the outflow. They really grow and take off in there. They will get three feet high and have huge leaves so they are slurping up their share of fish nutrients! I have tried hanging water plant baskets over the sides filled with watercress but the mice ate it all! I also filled light grid with watercress stems and that really took off and worked great until the labradors decided to walk all over it and cracked it all up. kathy :-) A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:31:20 -0500 (EST), (Bud Mugs)
wrote: Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. TIA. Lucy Click on this guy's filter: http://kilk.com/pond/ Or this one: http://community.webshots.com/user/dallas75248 for some great pictures of veggie filters. ~ jan |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:31:20 -0500 (EST), (Bud Mugs)
wrote: Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. TIA. Lucy Click on this guy's filter: http://kilk.com/pond/ Or this one: http://community.webshots.com/user/dallas75248 for some great pictures of veggie filters. ~ jan |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
Thanks Kathy and Jan for the info and sites.
Lucy |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
"Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
"Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
BenignVanilla wrote: "Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com yup they are and my pond is 24x35x3 and my veggie filter is 24x24x1 I use basicaly the same plants as BV you can see mine at http://www.fuerjefe.net ( and a few fiascos too ) John Rutz |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
BenignVanilla wrote: "Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com yup they are and my pond is 24x35x3 and my veggie filter is 24x24x1 I use basicaly the same plants as BV you can see mine at http://www.fuerjefe.net ( and a few fiascos too ) John Rutz |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
BenignVanilla wrote: "Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com yup they are and my pond is 24x35x3 and my veggie filter is 24x24x1 I use basicaly the same plants as BV you can see mine at http://www.fuerjefe.net ( and a few fiascos too ) John Rutz |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
BenignVanilla wrote: "Bud Mugs" wrote in message ... Hi, I would like to build a bog or veggie filter for my pond which is approx 15 by 20 and 3 feet deep. Any helpful sites or advice. My Pond is about 10x13x4. My VF is about 10x5x1. It is massively planted with Water Hyacinth, water iris, and a few others. I also plant many invasive species around the perimeter like mint, whose roots find their way deep into the VF. Aside from the great mud fiasco of 2003, my water parameters are B-A-utiful. Don't let these mechanical filter using, espresso drinking, SUV driving, plastic filter media types fool ya. Plants is as plants does. BV. www.iheartmypond.com yup they are and my pond is 24x35x3 and my veggie filter is 24x24x1 I use basicaly the same plants as BV you can see mine at http://www.fuerjefe.net ( and a few fiascos too ) John Rutz |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
Click my site at the bottom to see how I aded a bog to my pond. It
mightgive ya a idea. http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND |
Bog/Veggie filter ?
Wow!
What a beautiful pond layout you have! Your hard work has certainly paid off. Now you can really sit back and enjoy.... Great Job. Nedra http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "REBEL JOE" wrote in message ... Click my site at the bottom to see how I aded a bog to my pond. It mightgive ya a idea. http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND |
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