ochiba110

Birdman's Sand/Gravel Filter
Take a look at this, a sand and gravel filter for a 2000[us] gallon pond.
What do you think?

ochiba110

Obviously 70 of you don't think alot of it lol!
I was thinking, for the air blower an inflator for a bouncy castle,they're cheap enough on e-bay and could be throttled down with a ball valve.
Some feed back? anyone?

Aaron

I run 2 in parallel on my skimmer circuit on my main pond and a couple of others around the place .I couldnt be happier with the clarity they provide the ease of cleaning and the fact that they require very little head to run them.
On the thread in the link it is said you can go seven days + between cleans being a little anal about filter maintenance and water changes i do mine on alternate days

I use a wet and dry blower vac to clean mine.

ochiba110

Thanks for the thumbs up Aaron,do you feed directly back to pond or via bio filter?

Aaron

My skimmer circuit is purley for fines filtration .
They return strait to the pond top left and bottom right are the skimmer returns the middle 2 middle are bottom drain circuit

ochiba110

Aaron, was your pond purpose built[fibreglass/polypropolene] or aquired as a unit?

Aaron

It was a fiberglass swimming pool that i converted to a pond the kids werent to happy but the fishes seem to like it