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veggie filter
hello,
i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! honeybe |
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melissa wrote:
hello, i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! honeybe Hi, I don't know of any "brand" of veggie filter. Most of us just design our own. For a 300 gallon pond, you could probably use a Rubbermaid tub (30 gallons or larger). -- Bonnie NJ |
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melissa wrote:
hello, i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! honeybe Hi, I don't know of any "brand" of veggie filter. Most of us just design our own. For a 300 gallon pond, you could probably use a Rubbermaid tub (30 gallons or larger). -- Bonnie NJ |
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Hi Melissa, We built a filter out a rubber maid stock tank. The water comes in the bottom and goes out the top from three holes DH drilled in the side. The three holes have small lengths of pvc pipe in them. The water then goes down the waterfall. In the top of the filter we float water hyacinths. That's the veggie part. We put a rope around the hyacinths to keep them from clogging the outlet. kathy :-) A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A |
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veggie filter
i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding.
You can visit our pond web page and see the veggie filter I built using a Rubbermaid stock tank. http://radioheaven.homestead.com/Cement_Pond1.html Works great, I had crystal clear water last summer. Ron |
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veggie filter
i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding.
You can visit our pond web page and see the veggie filter I built using a Rubbermaid stock tank. http://radioheaven.homestead.com/Cement_Pond1.html Works great, I had crystal clear water last summer. Ron |
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veggie filter
i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding.
You can visit our pond web page and see the veggie filter I built using a Rubbermaid stock tank. http://radioheaven.homestead.com/Cement_Pond1.html Works great, I had crystal clear water last summer. Ron |
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Click on our pondsite and you can see our various veggie filters. They have
done well and don't need cleaning medium. Jim -- ______________________________________________ See our pond at: home.bellsouth.net\p\pwp-jameshurley Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per child) at: jogathon.net ______________________________________________ "melissa" wrote in message ... hello, i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! honeybe |
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Click on our pondsite and you can see our various veggie filters. They have
done well and don't need cleaning medium. Jim -- ______________________________________________ See our pond at: home.bellsouth.net\p\pwp-jameshurley Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per child) at: jogathon.net ______________________________________________ "melissa" wrote in message ... hello, i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! honeybe |
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"melissa" wrote in message ... hello, i am researching before i leap headfirst into ponding. can someone recommend a brand? or type? of veggie filter for a 300 gallon pond? thanks for your help! Melissa, when I built mine, I went with what I thought was the easy route. It ended up having it's own problems, but basically I just built a second shallow pond. I over plant that with Water Hyacinth, Iris, and a few other misc plants for aesthetics. I built mine, much larger in surface are then everyone recommended, just in case. The general rule of thumb is 10% of your pond surface area. I am probably closer to 40%. So far, water params in my first season were perfect, and dead on, and I don't have any filter media to clean up. Disclaimer: This will be my first post-winter experience, so we'll see how the VF fairs. My two big worries this year are 1) jumpstarting the VF. I need to get plants in there and get it rolling and 2) I let the leaves fall where they may, and am hoping my bottom drain will help to move those to my VF where they will be more easily cleaned up. We'll see. IMHO, the VF is the way to go. It gives me a second water feature to look at, and provides function at the same time. And the fact that I have no prefilters or media to clean on a regular basis is another great feature. BV. |
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