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Pressurised filters
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I'm looking to replace my Hozelock pressurized filter with either an Oase or Fishmate model. Does anyone have any useful feedback about these filters. The single BIG advantage as far as I can see is that the spnges can be flushed through in situ, so no more struggling to dismantle and reassemble the filter! Any comments would be appreciated! Thanks. |
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I purchased an OASE filtoclear 3000 (pondliner.com) for my 1800 gallon
koi pond. I left the UV light in the filter off initially to let the starter bacteria get established. I'm using a Sequence 750 pump (AZPonds.com) with a skimmer & leaf trap prefilter. The leaf trap has already saved one of my baby koi when he investigated where the the bottom drain led to. I figure with the line losses and waterfall I'm pushing between 1500 to 2000 gallons an hour though the filter. When the water starting turning green after about 2 or 3 weeks I plugged the filter in which activate the 9 watt UV. Within 3 to 4 days the green water was gone and the water has been pretty clear ever since. The pond is just under 4 feet deep and I can clearly see the bottom. Cleaning the filtoclear is about as easy as it gets. Just turn the knob to backflush and crank on the handle. I backflush for about a minute and that's it. I spent 2 years cleaning 'in pond' filters and I had enough. I bought for pretty much one reason - clean the flter without getting my hands full of you know what. The quality of the Filtoclear is excellent, it's some kind of tough plastic fairly thick. The mechanisms were stiff at first but once it's in operation everything turn and pulls smoothly. There are two types of filter media one more coarser that the other. Oase says this is to foster the growth of different bacteria. The filter comes with stepped adapters for hoses up to 1-1/2 inch diameter. To increase my flow rate I chose not to go with the provided adapters. Instead I threaded 1-1/2 inch PVC plumbing (couplers) directly to the filter. It worked out pretty well. I highly recommend it. "question" wrote in message ... Hi I'm looking to replace my Hozelock pressurized filter with either an Oase or Fishmate model. Does anyone have any useful feedback about these filters. The single BIG advantage as far as I can see is that the spnges can be flushed through in situ, so no more struggling to dismantle and reassemble the filter! Any comments would be appreciated! Thanks. |
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Just in case they didn't mention it in the literature. Pressurized systems
really eat up the buffering (KH) so you should have a test kit for that. They also work best when the KH is at least 150 ppm. Put Baking Soda on the grocery list. ) ~ jan On 15 Aug 2004 13:36:35 -0700, (Rich L) wrote: I purchased an OASE filtoclear 3000 (pondliner.com) for my 1800 gallon koi pond. I left the UV light in the filter off initially to let the starter bacteria get established. I'm using a Sequence 750 pump (AZPonds.com) with a skimmer & leaf trap prefilter. The leaf trap has already saved one of my baby koi when he investigated where the the bottom drain led to. I figure with the line losses and waterfall I'm pushing between 1500 to 2000 gallons an hour though the filter. When the water starting turning green after about 2 or 3 weeks I plugged the filter in which activate the 9 watt UV. Within 3 to 4 days the green water was gone and the water has been pretty clear ever since. The pond is just under 4 feet deep and I can clearly see the bottom. Cleaning the filtoclear is about as easy as it gets. Just turn the knob to backflush and crank on the handle. I backflush for about a minute and that's it. I spent 2 years cleaning 'in pond' filters and I had enough. I bought for pretty much one reason - clean the flter without getting my hands full of you know what. The quality of the Filtoclear is excellent, it's some kind of tough plastic fairly thick. The mechanisms were stiff at first but once it's in operation everything turn and pulls smoothly. There are two types of filter media one more coarser that the other. Oase says this is to foster the growth of different bacteria. The filter comes with stepped adapters for hoses up to 1-1/2 inch diameter. To increase my flow rate I chose not to go with the provided adapters. Instead I threaded 1-1/2 inch PVC plumbing (couplers) directly to the filter. It worked out pretty well. I highly recommend it. "question" wrote in message ... Hi I'm looking to replace my Hozelock pressurized filter with either an Oase or Fishmate model. Does anyone have any useful feedback about these filters. The single BIG advantage as far as I can see is that the spnges can be flushed through in situ, so no more struggling to dismantle and reassemble the filter! Any comments would be appreciated! Thanks. ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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"Rich L" wrote in message
om... I purchased an OASE filtoclear 3000 (pondliner.com) for my 1800 gallon koi pond. ... Does this need an additional pump, or is one built in? We were considering the UV solution, and this kind of integrates a UV and a filter, so might actually be worth the shell out of cash... -- Gareee© (Gareee "at" Charter "dot" net) Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Custom Figures, Wallpapers and more! |
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