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Filter or no filter??
My new pond has been filled for about 2 years now and I finally put a pump
in. I've been told that having a pond with lots of plants and water flowing down a stream with many stones can do the same thing a pond filter does. What is the reason for having a filter? -- Steve Shapson |
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Filter or no filter??
Steve wrote What
is the reason for having a filter? Often a pond can do fine with lots of plants and a waterfall over rocks. Problems happen when the original fish grow larger and then breed and over populate the pond. The mechanical part of the filter can catch a lot of gunk and that helps with green water. The biological end of the filter helps when the pond's inhabitants overtax the natural system. If you keep the population down, clean the pond every year you'll probably be fine. Just to be sure you can purchase a water test kit from your local petstore that sells fish and see what your numbers are. kathy :-) algae primer http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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Filter or no filter??
Mechanical filter filters out wind blown debris from the pond. Bio filter
stabilizes the water so that we could feed the fish a lot. Steve Shapson wrote: What is the reason for having a filter? |
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Filter or no filter??
Mechanical filter filters out wind blown debris from the pond. Bio filter
stabilizes the water so that we could feed the fish a lot. Steve Shapson wrote: What is the reason for having a filter? |
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