No, don't glue it, you may need to remove it it some point of you ever need to clean it. It usually sits in pretty tight. If you're concerned about it popping off, your can put a rock or Brick on top of the lid.
Hey thought i already posted this but not seeing it anyway where do you get the bottom drain and cutoff? Checked your website but your not selling them the bottom drains on Amazon reviews say they wont fit American 4" and the cutoff leak after a year
They are called 4" sump drains. I 've ordered them from AZ ponds in Pennsylvania. Also, my local pond store WaterWorld / Monmouth Feed in NJ gets them for me. I'm not sure where they order them from. They do come with an adaptor that fits with standard 4" PVC pipes. I will say that sometimes they too are a bit tricky - tight to get on the pipes. The 4" gate valves I get from Grainger or Pentair Aquatic Ecosystems in Apopka FL.
Thanks for the information and posting these videos i like the way your system filters the water before the pump when i built my pond i got a plastic welder and built my on skimer because i didnt think the ones on the market did a good job filtering the water before hitting the pump mine has 4 baskets and 8 pices of matala before the 2 pumps and it dosent teap fish like most
The pump here does not pull water from the bottom drain, the bottom drain is connected to the bottom of the filter tank with a 4" pipe. The water flows freely from the drain to fill up the tank flowing through the several layers of filter pads etc. The pump simply pulls the water from the top of the filter tank, sends it through a UV and then to a waterfall etc.
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Thank you, one of the most common sense explanations I have seen. Wish you would do a video showing us how you clean those filters.
Thank you, and I do have a video on cleaning them a well as the plumbing.🙂
Great video!
Hey do you glue the top on the bottom drains? Are leave it losses for cleaning out if need bee?
Thanks for all your help
No, don't glue it, you may need to remove it it some point of you ever need to clean it. It usually sits in pretty tight. If you're concerned about it popping off, your can put a rock or Brick on top of the lid.
Hey thought i already posted this but not seeing it anyway where do you get the bottom drain and cutoff? Checked your website but your not selling them the bottom drains on Amazon reviews say they wont fit American 4" and the cutoff leak after a year
They are called 4" sump drains. I 've ordered them from AZ ponds in Pennsylvania. Also, my local pond store WaterWorld / Monmouth Feed in NJ gets them for me. I'm not sure where they order them from. They do come with an adaptor that fits with standard 4" PVC pipes. I will say that sometimes they too are a bit tricky - tight to get on the pipes. The 4" gate valves I get from Grainger or Pentair Aquatic Ecosystems in Apopka FL.
Thanks for the information and posting these videos i like the way your system filters the water before the pump when i built my pond i got a plastic welder and built my on skimer because i didnt think the ones on the market did a good job filtering the water before hitting the pump mine has 4 baskets and 8 pices of matala before the 2 pumps and it dosent teap fish like most
That is NOT a true gravity fed system. There is no pump in a true gravity feed. Suction pulling up is not gravity doing the work.
The pump here does not pull water from the bottom drain, the bottom drain is connected to the bottom of the filter tank with a 4" pipe. The water flows freely from the drain to fill up the tank flowing through the several layers of filter pads etc. The pump simply pulls the water from the top of the filter tank, sends it through a UV and then to a waterfall etc.