Water Gardening: Flirtations with Filtration, 1 by BogweedBuck

BogweedBuck wrote:
Okay, now on to the fun part (and here's where the photography got even more sketchy) ... making the mega filter.

I purchased a 5,300gph pump and 30 feet of 2" non-kink pool tubing of from a local pond supply shop. Let me tell you, that ribbed pool tubing is a beast to work with ... those ribs do NOT like to stretch at all. Getting regular pipe and plumping fixtures to fit into that stuff is no fun whatsoever. Anyhow ...

Here's the general idea: within the now raised pond liner we have a storage bin that works as a mechanical filter. If need be, it also serves wonderfully for adding bags of activated carbon or whatever else suits your fancy to do some chemical filtration as well. My goal here was to collect dirt amd detritus from the bottom of the pond and trap it up in the waterfall basin somehow. I also wanted to not turn this raised waterfall area into a torrential whirlpool. The plastic storage bin needed to not only hold my filter medium, but needed to baffle the water movement as well.

Here's the tools you will need:

- Plastic storage bin, with latched lid.
- 10x10x8 (or 8x8x6) ducting hood
- Jig saw
- Marking pencil
- Drill with hole cutter bit
- 2" pipe connector



This message was edited Jul 25, 2005 4:23 PM