🐢 Pro Tip | How to CLEAN a Recreational Swim Pond WETLAND FILTER - Fast and Easy 👍
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2022
- Want to know the easiest and fastest way to clean a wetland filter for a pond, recreational swim pond, lake, or habitat?
This video shows you…
1. When it is time to clean a pond or lake wetland filter
2. The best tools to use to quickly drain and rinse the pond sludge
3. What a dirty wetland filter looks like
4. How beautiful a clean wetland filter is
We also give tips on plant sustainability via fertilizing them with pond sludge pumped from the wetland, on the benefits of watering planting beds with pond water, and how microclimates benefit the pond wetland plant selection.
1. Wetlands are the “kidneys of the landscape”
Similar to human kidneys, the organs that extract waste from our blood and balance body fluids, wetlands have the ability to clean the water that flows through them, mitigate large flood events and recharge underground aquifers.
Wetlands can also provide fisheries and timber resources, habitat for biodiversity , and protect coastal communities from extreme events, such as typhoons and hurricanes. They also make lucrative destinations for ecotourism, shoring up the bottom line for local economies across the globe.
2. Wetlands can mitigate climate change
Coastal wetlands such as mangroves forests sequester and store large quantities of blue carbon in the vegetation and the sediment below. “Blue carbon” is the carbon that is stored naturally by marine and coastal ecosystems, hence the name. Blue carbon ecosystems hold a LOT of carbon - a given area of mangrove forest, for example, can store up to 10 times as much carbon as the same area of land-based forest. It’s important to protect and conserve blue carbon because the release of this carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major driver of climate change.
3. Wetlands are a habitat for biodiversity
The species found in wetlands are some of the most unique in the world because they’ve evolved specifically to survive in these hydrologically changing ecosystems. Alligators, crocodiles, muskrats, nutrias, fish species and hundreds of birds, including mallards, geese and herons are all found in wetlands. More than half of the 800 species of protected migratory birds in the U.S. relay on wetlands. The vegetation found in wetlands is also unique as they have evolved to survive in seasonally flooded and saline conditions. Some examples include the cattail in freshwater wetlands and mangrove species in coastal wetlands.
Source: www.conservation.org/blog/5-t...
Wetlands Work!
The bottom line is that constructed wetlands work, and they make any pond look natural and gorgeous. What’s more, natural wetlands and the associated riparian habitats are the most biologically diverse habitats on earth, more species of plants and animals are associated with them than any other type of ecosystem.
Source: support.aquascapeinc.com/hc/e...
But because of our construction practices and changes to natural hydrology, these systems are under great stress. By adding a small wetland in your customer’s backyard, you’ll be helping to preserve the natural biodiversity of your community. With today’s growing tendency toward creating sustainable landscape solutions, you can see why wetland filtration is an obvious choice for today’s environmentally-conscious consumer.
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Thank you for the tips. I have a 15x16 ecosystem pond with w 4x6 wetland filter. It was built in Nov 2021. I knew I needed to clean the wetland filter this coming spring. I bought a bilage pump and planned to use the nutrient rich water on my flowerbeds. I didn't realize I should use pond water to rinse the wetland down. Duh! Of course. I would have killed all the good bacteria with city water. Thank you for the info!
That is such a great response! I pinned your comment. Every person watching this video should pick up on what you did on your own.
that trash pump is crazy good. It's on my bucket list now. Glad you're posting more again
Every Saturday at 8 am pacific. ;)
This video helped me so much!! Thank you.
You are most welcome 🙏 thanks for the comment. 😀 subcribe for more.
Cool, informative video
Thank you sir
This is awesome Carl!!
Thank you 😊
GREAT TIPS!
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What's the name of the suction strainer you use?
At what size pond do you need a wetland filter? Just sold a 18x30 with a small wetland on it.
I've done them on 15x20's
That was a good clean out
Thanks
What's the name of the nozzle at the end of your intake hose? Do you use the cleanout pump that I see behind you? I have a swimming pond and need to purchase a pump to clean the wetland and empty the pond. Would you recommend a trash pump or cleanout pump? I can only afford one. Thanks.
For tec ponds, I recommend the trash pump that you see us using with firehose. It's very efficient. Use a submersible and spend 4x as long. Call me for more advice at 888-713-7771 x4
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Thanks for your help. I'll buy a 3" trash pump. What's the name of the suction strainer you use?
It comes with the pump and hose. It's a 3" suction strainer at tractor supply
before it gets too bad is there any type of biological enzyme or bacteria that would help break down sludge that you could dose once or twice a year to help degrade some of the larger debris
We use weekly doses of bacteria and enzymes in this swim pond. The buildupnis intentional in the design of the filters.
2x year maintenance is massively beneficial
@danielmerril8926 you can get muck dissolve tablets on line. They are muck dissolving bacteria that work amazing. Google it
Can the wetland of this system be connected with a septic field of sorts? I’m curious if that could somehow work.
What are your goals?
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens - My goal is:
Filtering my septic system through one (or more) wetland filters, to drain into a large swimming pond. From there I hope to pump water to my vegetable beds and into a secondary pond for carp fish.
@sweetcanada17 I don't think I'd try that.
I need to ask, when you blast all the muck, where does it go? It looks like you’re just blasting it into the stones the water is not flowing down into the snorkel
Great question. There are aquablocks on top of an aquascape snorkel and centipede. Look up the aquascape wetland construction method on Google.
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens After the backflush, aren't you then pumping that dirty water out before refilling again?
That's where the muck goes, right? You empty the filter so that reservoir is ready to receive the backflush, then you backflush, then you pump that backflushed water out, then you start the pond pump up again and you're done. Is that right?
Yes
I agree great question: I still do not understand where the muck goes. I see you blasting water at the muck but it's unclear why that would remove the muck and not just move it around.
Flower beds or sewer
When was last time it was cleaned?
It gets cleaned 1x to 2x a year.
Did you say youre using the pond water to rinse the wetlands after you pump it down?
Yes. The pond water is the safest way to rinse the wetlands to preserve the bacteria colony
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens When refilling the pond (Which I have to do regularly due insufficient liner size and too small an opening) I use an RV filter to remove VOC's and chloramines from the hose. Do you have any alternate suggestions?
When refilling we always air on the side of caution and use a dechlorinator followed with an an ammonia binder. I like the idea of using an rv filter as it binds some heavy metals and does some purification, but the real fish killer is chloramines.
Most dechlorinators bind chlorine and break the chloramine bond thus binding the chlorine that had been previously in the chloramine.
But what about ammonia?
That left over ammonia from breaking the chloramine bond is suuuuuuper deadly, and we have regrettably killed our fair share of fish when we were new at pond cleanouts.
Having learned that, we now detoxify with a chlorine binder chased with an ammonia binder.
Anything else beyond that is just good stewardship.
Great question! 👍
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Wow thanks for the hard lessons learned thanks for the reply!
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