You skippy filter people, what do you use as a prefilter before your
pump?

You skippy filter people, what do you use as a prefilter before your
pump?


I have my pump sitting on a piece of light grate a couple inches
off the bottom of a 5 gallon paint bucket. Lava rocks fill the area around
the pump up to just below the top. I have drilled the top full of
1/2" holes to let the water in.
Every couple of years I pull it out and pour the muck off and
put it back to work.
My water is crystal clear all the way to the bottom 4 feet deep.

Ron


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Matthews, NC 28106-3015
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Thanks for the reply
I actually have an external filter, anyone have this setup?
Ron Lawrence KC4YOY wrote:
You skippy filter people, what do you use as a prefilter before
your
pump?


I have my pump sitting on a piece of light grate a couple inches
off the bottom of a 5 gallon paint bucket. Lava rocks fill the area
around
the pump up to just below the top. I have drilled the top full of
1/2" holes to let the water in.
Every couple of years I pull it out and pour the muck off and
put it back to work.
My water is crystal clear all the way to the bottom 4 feet deep.

Ron


--
Ron Lawrence, kc4yoy
(Curmudgeon in training)

POBox 3015
Matthews, NC 28106-3015
704-289-1166 (home)
kc4yoy(at)carolina.rr.com

Radio Collection Web Page,
http://www.radioheaven.homestead.com

In article .com,
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Thanks for the reply
I actually have an external filter, anyone have this setup?

I have a small homemade skippy for a 500 gallon that is overstocked.

My pump has no prefilter. The submersible pump is strong and chews up
most heavy objects. I bought a plastic bowl and cut it up so that it
acted like a siphon head. The pump sits in the top of the plastic bowl,
so it is about 3" off the bottom. I cut the lip of the upside down bowl
in a scallop pattern so it allows debris through, except big stuff...
This method seems to suck a lot of loose crud off the bottom of my
pond...

But, I clean my skippy every couple of weeks. Like I said I think my
situation is due to overstocking / small pond and too small filter.

Ultimately I have plants in the water that help the biological portion
of the pond, so I think that the skippy is more of a particulate
scrubber than anything else.

As for a bit of trivia. I put all my sponges in a net laundry bag. To
clean the filters I just pull out the bag and there it is... You can
run the bag through a washing machine, I just throw the spunges on the
driveway and hose them down.

Carl

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As for a bit of trivia. I put all my sponges in a net laundry bag. To
clean the filters I just pull out the bag and there it is... You can
run the bag through a washing machine, I just throw the spunges on the
driveway and hose them down.
Hi Carl - I clean mine much the same way, only I leave them in the bag and
hose them down on my driveway at the season end. A couple of times a season,
I just stick the garden hose in the top of my barrel and back flush some of
the crud out the inlet fitting at the bottom of my barrel as I slosh the
bags around inside - about 10 min total - I also don't use sponge, I use
scotch brite type pads
Gale :~)

In article ,
"Gale Pearce" wrote:


As for a bit of trivia. I put all my sponges in a net laundry bag. To
clean the filters I just pull out the bag and there it is... You can
run the bag through a washing machine, I just throw the spunges on the
driveway and hose them down.
Hi Carl - I clean mine much the same way, only I leave them in the bag and
hose them down on my driveway at the season end. A couple of times a season,
I just stick the garden hose in the top of my barrel and back flush some of
the crud out the inlet fitting at the bottom of my barrel as I slosh the
bags around inside - about 10 min total - I also don't use sponge, I use
scotch brite type pads
Gale :~)

Yeah... Cool... I have the scotchbright as well, along with some
floorpolishing disks.. No sponges... Everything is a sponge to me so
that was that wording....

I am wondering if I over clean the filters. But man, they are gross
after a couple of weeks... And then the water slows down... But I may
be overdoing it...

Also I am in socal so seasons are hot and warm...

Carl

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Gale Pearce wrote:

As for a bit of trivia. I put all my sponges in a net laundry bag. To
clean the filters I just pull out the bag and there it is... You can
run the bag through a washing machine, I just throw the spunges on the
driveway and hose them down.


Hi Carl - I clean mine much the same way, only I leave them in the bag and
hose them down on my driveway at the season end. A couple of times a season,
I just stick the garden hose in the top of my barrel and back flush some of
the crud out the inlet fitting at the bottom of my barrel as I slosh the
bags around inside - about 10 min total - I also don't use sponge, I use
scotch brite type pads
Gale :~)




I use floor scrubber pad (cut up) for my bio-mechanical. I did a
"skippy" type and it just did not work for me. Guess I was/am not
'mechanical' enough. The water just barely tirckled into the filter and
it was so ugly! I come in from the bottom of my Rubbermaid stock tanks
using the existing hole. Working just fine now.

W. Dale
Wilmdale Pond - http://home.pcisys.net/~muaddib

The only prefilter I use is a primer basket attached to my sequence
pump. I clean it about 1 every other month (once a month in the
summer).

-ikiru

*enjoy the sauce*


wrote:
You skippy filter people, what do you use as a prefilter before your
pump?

How big is your pond?
Ive heard that leaf catchers can clog easily
I too have an external pump like you, maybe I hsould go that route
wrote:
The only prefilter I use is a primer basket attached to my sequence
pump. I clean it about 1 every other month (once a month in the
summer).

-ikiru

*enjoy the sauce*


wrote:
You skippy filter people, what do you use as a prefilter before
your
pump?