A Quick and Easy Pond Filter for a small pond - 5 Minute DIY Project
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- I came up with this when I wanted to stop the little tadpoles being sucked into my little solar powered pond pump. It works and you can put it together in 5 mins. To clean it just remove it , unscrew the outlet and run a hose through it. Sorted.
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This is just what I was looking for, thank you for sharing.
Cool, good enough for a small pump. To clean it I just take it off and run a hose through from the inside!
Wow, this was fantastic. Thank you so much! So simple yet so effective.
Glad it was helpful!
It is awesome when you can repurpose things to create something functional. Thanks for the tutorial!
Yes, good to recycle! You could easily scale up with bigger bottles, 1 litre, 2 litre and ladies stocking over it!
The tube from the bottle filter is connected to the inlet of a 12v water pump which is giving me a fountain!
and the pump runs from a small solar panel. £10.
I’ve watched this a few times now and I just don’t see how you’re getting the water to fountain out like that.
The tube from the bottle filter is connected to the inlet of my 12 volt pump which is in the other bottle. It says in the video I have a solar powered pump? Any filter you have needs to be connected to a pump! 2:51
I am gonna do this to trap some of the dirt from the bottom of the pond . Thank you very much
You're welcome!
Love it !!
Thanks. It works well for a small pump.
Clever. If you put fish (goldfish for example) and pond plants, you probably wouldn't need a filter as you'd be mimicking what Mother Nature does.
What's the music playing in the background?
Royalty free music from Audionautix.com it's Coolride.mp3
How do I make a small hose circulate the water in my small pond. Sucking the water through the hose isn't working 😒
Sorry don't really understand the question?
I don't know how else to explain it haha.
I want to use a piece of hose for a small water feature.
Yanno how people use a hose to drain petrol from a car haha same thing.
I'm crying laughing here
I have a solar panel fountain could I connect the filter to that its a decent fountain thanks
Hi mate, yes, I have 3 solar panels connected to pumps. A filter like this works well with small pumps.
extend the vid to show us how well the mesh filters the pond for interest. one can use ladies stocking as well for very fine filtration. if the containers is above the water line then the mesh will only clog on the wet section filling up the bottle with debris to the top maybe before having to clean it. like a cartridge filter. if a larger bottle with large openings is used then the water will pass very slowly via the mesh , bigger hole slower water velocity, less dirt escapes etc. will try a version of this.
Thanks for the interesting comments. Useful. It can also be scaled up by using say a one litre bottle.
Went from a yucky green slimy pond to a ..er um..a...er...yucky, green, slimy pond....
Well done!
Green ponds are a different ball game, can be lots of reasons for that! Too much sun, too many nutrients, etc. Mine was green for two years until the plants really took hold!
Hi Bobflyman
What specific pump and solar panel do you use? So many on the market, not sure how good they are, very small pond don't need anything too sophisticated, just something that does the basics and lasts.
Panels I use are 10 watt Ecoworthy, nice panel with an aluminium frame. amzn.to/3z3OKL4
Aquarium pumps is a more difficult question. For that filter I originally used a small 12v pump I found online that had a spigot both ends, but lately , I have used these and put them in a bottle style filter. amzn.to/3a7fIa8 and these 5v amzn.to/3wTX6Co
And a voltage regulator I use a thing called a BEC and regulate to 5v or 9v www.hobbyrc.co.uk/matek-micro-bec-5v9v-adjustable?gclid=CjwKCAjws8yUBhA1EiwAi_tpESkQkkXKVx4OmdksvMINO0bUTGLvs0tI5ZQgf3rehbQ-7MMV9vC_cRoCmxkQAvD_BwE
You need to make some kind of spray head of course for a fountain but I get a good 3 feet height of fountain in good sunlight!
Thanks for your help
You're a clever old stick 🙂
Takes one to know one ;)
Does this also circulate the water?
It's sucking the water into the little pump and spraying it out in a different place so I'd say yes! And it aerates too. Alright for a small pond.
Looks like a good one that, that panel looks like about a 30 watter? If you got a cheapo solar charge controller and a old lead acid battery It could go 24/7
I used to use an old motor cycle lead acid battery, about a 4 amp, a 12v timer and ran the pump 2 hours a day. Battery died last winter. Not enough sun. It's a 25 year old panel and panels in those days were nowhere near as efficient as the new monocrystaline ones. I think it's probably barely 10w in full sun! Voltage got too low and battery would not recover. I just bought a new small one, 2.1 amps. The pump draws 750 mA so even at full charge that's barely 3 hours run time. (I am an electrical engineer by training. ;) ) With a timer it would barely run the pump for 2 hours a day . 12v reg and 12v timer etc. I have even tried a 5v pump which meant using 2 regs . Panel down to 12v then a 7805, 5v reg. A 5v reg would need a massive heat sink to reduce the say 15 v in bright sunlight down to 5v. I just bought a cheapo floating solar fountain, £12 ebay and in full sun with a tiny little panel it's almost as good as my big panel. Sooo, to get to the point, it prompted me to try connecting my panel direct and it has been a great success! I have now got a 12v reg chip on the panel so that my small pump will not ever get whacked out with say 15v, but in my tests it still runs at say 6 or 7 v. Sooo, the pump is now working well every time the sun comes out, and still working half bore in cloud! Sorry for the long explanation but I have spent hours playing with different ways of using that old panel! I bet a modern smaller £20 panel would be better?
PS I've got one big panel on my motorhome , £100 job, and a split reg that keeps 3 big batteries up. Maybe I'll invest in a smaller, but more efficient panel for my little pump!
Less than a minute in and I'm thinking of making a shotty bottle lol
Way to go!
Is that a Gunnera manicata or a Gunnera tinctoria
Hi, I bought on e bay believe it or not and it was small enough to fit in the palm of my hand! Gunnera manicata. This is where I bought, at the time £3.99 09/02/2019 Mine was probably smaller than this linked. Fabulous plant! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gunnera-manicata-Giant-Rhubarb-Pond-Bog-Plant-Marginal-9cm-to-10-Litre/222566255354
I’m gonna need a diagram. Sorry. I watched the video several times. You didn’t mention the other bottle until the very end. Please expound on the connections and placement. I like the idea, I just don’t understand it fully. Thank you!
Second bottle is optional, it's my fountain head. 😉. Diagram will follow in a few weeks after I've finished my quick and easy video guide to brain surgery. 😵
Yeah I don’t get whats going on here. What is that other bottle and why is the filter sitting outside the pond?
Cool
Thanks. It works too!
UV needed here!
Plenty of oxygenating weed in mine solved the green water issue, but there can be many causes of green water as you know!
I was new to your channel because I was wondering if there was a new way of making a filter. My setup is tried and tested and fully solar powered, stick to what you know I guess. A good cycle of water is key to a healthy pond 👍
Confusing First you buil;d your water bottle contraption then you shpow it up onna rock.. then another pop bottle floating and sprinkling ....lots of Info missing here Mate.
Funny how after 66,000 views you're the first person who doesn't realise that it's just positioned on the rock to show it assembled before it went in the water. And nobody else asked your question? 😮
The other pop bottle top you can see just holds the sprinkler head for my little pump.
See that green algae colour. This idea will never ever keep that clear. It is just a pre filter for the pump. But barely functional. Just enough so it is able to get water through
It wasn't intended to clear algae. You need UV lamps and sophisticated systems for that. It's just a simple DIY filter for small pumps to stop them from getting blocked with crap. It's been working for 7 months and the pump has never been blocked so it's still working! And it runs from a solar panel so runs for many hours whenever the sun is shining. (It's not intended for a big water flow and I haven't claimed it is either. Though you could scale up by using a one litre size bottle. Or a 2 gallon plastic jerrican!) Any filter needs cleaning occasionally anyway, and if it does, you remove it, take off the cap and run a hose through from the inside. The green colour? It was a new pond and the algae has now cleared because I have enough weed in it. No chemicals and no fancy UV light filters!
Wasn't aware you needed all this "fancy" stuff to have quality pond water. Sorry pond god.
@@curse6of6me6 Yikes, the guy is just showing a DIY filter, nothing too deep, then he follows up to your snarky reply with some quality info.. sounds like you've been drinking the dirty pond water and its makin you bitter