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Pond descriptions

Wayne & Heidi's pond - page 5

My Bio-Filter is a 200 litre blue drum that I roughly based on the well known Skippy filter.
The first outgoing line from my pump runs into my home made filter and then into the pond via the water fall that I still plan to build.
View of the waterfall and bio-filter
View inside the bio-filter
The bio filter has an incoming line with a “T” and two 90 degreee bends that point in opposite directions to cause the water to create a vortex. Below the incoming line is a grid. On the bottom of the drum is a 40ml tap that allows me to flush all the dirt out at the bottom of the filter if I need to.
I decided to use hair curlers as my bio-media instead of bio-balls. Apparently it works just as well if not better, and hair curlers are a lot cheaper than bio-balls in South Africa.

 

View of the almost finished pond

This is the progress with the pond on 14th November 2005

 
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