Water Gardening: Re-using a above ground pool filter and pump?...help please!, 0 by SusanaLyn

SusanaLyn wrote:
Thanks snapple45 for all your suggestions and advice and for that link also...I was reading over there for a long time last night and I came across this here below...pic too I put here from there...they claim people have asked for this and it's a new development...
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Filtration » Sand Filter Media » Lightweight Sand Filter Media
Particulate removal down to the 20-40 micron range.

Our lightweight media reduces the problem of backflush channeling, a common problem with sand filters in "reuse" aquaculture. This occurs when the heavy sand media doesn't fluff up (bed expansion) as it should because the organics and bacteria make it stick together. Our lightweight media minimizes the problem because it expands 30-50 percent with only 8-10 gpm per square foot backflush (if the flow rate is in excess of 10 gpm per square foot of area, a restricting valve on the backflush drain may be needed to prevent the loss of media). Weighs only 25 lbs/ft3 (sand is about 100 lbs per cubic foot). The irregular shape of the lightweight media provides more void space, resulting in less pressure loss. Its irregular surface provides particulate removal down to the 20-40 micron range. Made of non-hydrous silicon dioxide and approved for potable water. Try it. Depending on conditions, it could solve your backflush channeling problem, like it has for others.
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I wonder if this actually works?...I am SO curious but I think I will not try it...maybe I'll try it later on down the line somehow...I was actually thinking if I am up to it someday to put another smaller pond in the front garden...or...perhaps over where my flagstone patio in the back is going to be...something shallower and with alot of river rocks...more stream like....I will think about that for sure...I just wanted to thank randbponder again also...I am going to go and read a little bit more about the torpedo pump and compare it to a few others and then find a place online where I can get some or all the fittings...and tubing...I hope anyways...and I am definitely usiing randbponder's piping/plumbing pic as reference...te,he...I'll let you know what happened...:)