Building a HUGE Pond Filter - Part 2 - Vortex Filters
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2018
- Second episode in this mega-filter build for my large trout pond. Today we will take a look at the vortex parts of the filter and I'll explain how they are going to be fitted together to help with primary settlement which will hopefully clear the pond.
The next episode will highlight the brush chamber and have more notes on the vortex fittings which I showed briefly at the end of this video.
Vortex filters: bit.ly/2Mj7gYa
4" fittings: geni.us/nTQc9bw
2" taps: geni.us/OBXBGSI
8" diameter brushes: ebay.to/2OvMOkc
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Second episode in this mega-filter build for my large trout pond. Today we will take a look at the vortex parts of the filter and I'll explain how they are going to be fitted together to help with primary settlement which will hopefully clear the pond.
The next episode will highlight the brush chamber and have more notes on the vortex fittings which I showed briefly at the end of this video.
Vortex filters: bit.ly/2Mj7gYa
4" fittings: geni.us/nTQc9bw
2" taps: geni.us/OBXBGSI
8" diameter brushes: ebay.to/2OvMOkc
If you've enjoyed this video please check out the playlists on my channel for hundreds more - on a variety of subjects.
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+Rode 'deadcat' mic cover: geni.us/1pmn
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What prompted you to attach them in parallel vs in series?
see previous comments / answers
Updates, @pondguru ?
Hi, just thinking all your vortex filters fed from the bottom will limit your pump flowrate as all the weight of the water.
Probably got over 1000litres of water pushing back onto the impeller.
Not sure if the vortex filters can work in reverse but that would increase up your flowrate massively.
Another solution would be to feed into another open vat higher then the vortex filters, then gravity feed back to the votex filters..
Anyways if I'm wrong please let me know.
Hey Richard 👋
How are you doing?
Any updates on this build?
Stay safe!
Regards, Edi
Great build. Can’t wait to see how it continues and to see the results on the water quality. Good luck Richard.
Just awesome stuff.... keep it coming! You get us thinking there is nothing we can't do
Big respect for your work
Great start. Looking forward to this!!
Outstanding filtration system my friend!
Wow this is going to be amazing!!! I can't wait to see it all fired up! Good stuff ✌️🐟☮️
Savage set up! Quality work as usual
Loving the vortex set up so far, It has been very well thought out, especially with the flush system you have installed. So much better to clean in pond water you dont wanna be killing the bacteria thats built up in there for no reason. Fantastic idea
Yes and with 30000 litres per hour those tanks are going to get a hell of a cleaning, lol
oh yeah they are not going to want for flow that's for sure lol
Looking good so far. Man it's gonna be an animal of a filter
Love the shirt! About the "filter", well, looks like you're gonna filter the whole ocean!
Wonderful idea, bring a smile to my face to see such ideas come to life. Am so envious you are able to do these things, whereas I can not even afford to own a simple aquarium (due to various reasons).
It has taken many years of saving up and collecting the various parts for the filter an while I'm almost there I still have a pump to buy and loads of media / brushes to finish it. I don't want to think how much it wold cost if I bought everything in one hit, lol
Awesome filter build
fan-flippin-tastic 2nd part to the series !!
Great filter build
Monster setup...super awesome..
Nice video Richard 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I liked this video, gonna watch it again tomorrow. By the way, a few month ago I made two trickle filters according your video and ever since, the water in my (tropical) pond is crystal clear!
Awesome stuff and I'm glad the video was useful.
Very cool !!!
Looks cool, very clever
Hey Buddy, I enjoy your videos but i just have a few comments. I have worked in the sewage treatment area for large municipalities for 34 yrs. All of this tech. has been around for over a hundred years. With regard to the fittings,..., those tees are called ty's and they are meant to direct the flow of the liquid in the direction of the sweep, and the gaskets always go on the inside. That helps them swell and form a better seal as well as protect them from the weather. Keep up the interesting videos!
You watch you dont upset the earths gravitational field with that puppy ,thats a monster of a filter ;)
More faster content please please please please I’m loving the mega filter
Oh, I just love this! I sooo want a pond, but my husband would probably kill me if I attempted anything like this -anyway, we dont have room for even a tiny pond here -but one day... Looking very much forward to the next episode :-)
I'm looking forward to filming it as free time is really tight and I want to progress with the build.
Looks like its going to be a right monster setup that pondy cant wait for the next vid
take care
john :)
Dude, hangin' for part 3.
Can't wait for part 3
. Great video thanks for showing. You should put square mesh in the vortex to help catch all the sediment.spoke to soon that's a great idea
Cool so far!
Nice setup 👌 I am thinking about using it on my pond should I decide to switch up..
Amazing job. Love your videos. I’d love a big pond so I can put a boat on it 😂
Really enjoying this series, will be great to see if we can see the water clarity change. I like watching the build too and I’m curious to see how the clearing out the muck bit works.
Hopefully it will work quite well and the height of filters in relation to other parts of the garden should ensure a decent flow when I am draining filters off and watering the garden with the waste water - should make my grass hellish green, lol
Hey Richard. Great video.Instead of using a flexible hose for washing up you could pipe your 2" pipe up and over the top of the cyclones with some sort of spry nozzle over each . ttfn.
Great video very easy to follow chat and instructions. No idea how you got the ultimate Warrior to help you lift it but lucky colin arrived.
Mate when are we going to see part 3? Loving it sofar
Verry nice video sir thanks.
Thanks my friend for the information G-man out
Can you say MEGA? This thing is going to be great!
Why do i get the impression Colin was there in the bushes all along, listening.. waiting.. for the perfect moment.
lol, yeah he could actually live in my garden - I think I will invest in a thermal imager and take a closer look.
Oh yes it's getting there 👍👍
this has turned into the Filter channel.
Judging by my recent uploads I'd say you're right there yet every so often I will drop a video or two which is totally unrelated and random which will no doubt confuse many viewers, lol
Colin, your resident Tom hanks in castaway?
LOL
Was about to say WILSON !! 😋
🤣😂😂
Ive never seen this vortex filters.
I need to build one smaler for my Aquarium.
Your videos rank up there with Joey KING of DIY as my favorites because the 2 of you actually know how to help us simpletons. Difefent situations, same concept. When is part 3 coming out?
I'm glad you enjoy the videos - I'm having real problems getting time to edit any of the videos or get back to working on the filter as I'm working long hours 7 days a week. The business sales are up about 200% on last year so it's manic.
With any luck I will get time next week to edit some videos as I have about 20 filter videos shot for the 'pimp my filter' series - I may just upload a load of videos on one day to clear the backlog.
Wouldn't you want the rubber seal on your drains on the inside because water pushing out will make a better seal than the seal holding the water back from the outside? Awesome setup though! Thank you for sharing and as always Keep Building👍
Hi great videos. Love the Filter idea for the pond. Although I was thinking with the size of pump and flow rate wouldn't it be more optimal to have the vortex filters in a sequential staging (one behind the other)vs. a parallel setup (side by side). That way each tank would in theory separate different sizes of particles. and thus give you a cleaner output in the biohome tanks and shower filter. It would be really easy to change over too. Have the input come into one Vortex (V) on bottom and connect the top output together with the next one with 90* elbows. and then the bottom of that tank with the bottom of the third. and that gives you one output at the end of the third tank to connect the biohome (u) tanks too. Plus this would help being the middle vortex would be spinning down like a drain it would pull air into the water to help with removing ultra fines in the third tank.
so here is a diagram;
(pond)--(pump)---_V--V__V---u-u-u---(shower)----(pond)
The main problem is with the particle size I'm trying to settle as it's not like a 'normal' situation of large visible lumps of fish muck and therefore much of it stays in suspension unless there is structure for it to cling to, hence the brushes in the vortex filters - I suppose I could have just gone with a rectangle tank for the first stage instead of 'vortex' filters but the base shape of the vortex does lend itself to settlement. I'll see how the flow is with / without brushes and assess the effectiveness of them after a few months of running but they could be altered if necessary since fittings are rubber.
I need one of these filters for my 1000 gallon pond
I don't envy your cleaning days. I don't like my pond ones, can't imagine a lake clean.
I am loving this filter build even if its soo out of my league! You really are Guru of all aquatic filters and obviously not just pond. I have never looked back after getting your filter media for my aquariums, so thank you :). Please tell me where you got the strong looking egg crate in the bottom of these filters? I a looking for something like this to do a paludarium. Cannot wait for next part of this build cheers Richard!
The egg crate is a filter crate from Kockney koi and is normally sized in rectangles of around 16" x 27.5" - I will be using them to create a 'dead zone' under the brushes in the big brush chamber.
Cheers Richard!
Pondguru is one of the best...
Good work, personally I would have the first one’s outlet connect to the 2nd one’s inlet and then the 2nd one’s outlet to the 3rd one’s inlet, to give a bit more filtration as the water moved through each filter, but hey that’s just me.
They are no longer vertexes with those brushes in and defeat the object as the brushes will defuse the water flow from its circular motion. Anyway good luck with this, I don't envy you cleaning it all after a few weeks running.
The use of the brushes in these filters makes me want to try that in a smaller application. Do you think it would be effective to make my own using a 20 gallon plastic cylinder and brushes for a 1200 gallon pond. I really like to idea of pulling those brushes out to get rid of the muck.
Yes brushes are very effective and trap a nation of muck. I had them in another filter and even the fine clay dust was settling on them that's why I'm using (a nation of) them here.
That's really interesting! I would like to see you design a filter system similar to this setup but a scale down version similar in design for oh say a 90 gal & up to 180 gal. aquarium,.. having the 3 containers ( maybe more if needed)up to 6. Although i'm unsure as to where it would best be located; hang on back, or make some sort of bracket/shelf for the containers to sit at the back of tank just above it??? Basically would be a type of trickle filter or sump but instead of being under the aquarium, it would be visible above the back of the tank,maybe even have an area for house plants(giving u a kind of hydroponic type setup as an option) Also, what kind of containers would be used? Some may prefer clear(acrylic although pricey)some type of see through container,.. maybe some would prefer blacked-out containers.Whatever the choice: They'd join together similar to how you made that huge kick-ass filter for the pond... (Clear or solid color) Would that have different effects on the filtration???
I figure you would best suited for the task if anyone could make it well, you'd be person for the job.. I like watchin' the builds and really enjoy absorbing in all the info/knowledge u share,.. Many, Many, Thx from the good "ole U.S. of A (state of KY).... Rock on !!!
I'm glad you enjoy the videos and I would love to have the time to make all manner of different filters but I'm lucky to get 1-2 hours a week spare at present with the way the business is going - it's crazy. Financially good but mentally and physically draining so I'm really glad I made that 'studio' part in the back of the new cabin.
Next major filter project will be to make a concept version of an FX7 from an old FX5 which should hopefully address the lack of media issue with those filters.
great job brother , i,m planning to do the same filter however in the first filter i wanna replace the brushes with gravel , would that work better do you think brother ?
Ideally the gravel would be after brushes as using gravel as a mechanical cleaner will take much more cleaning than brushes.
Fantastic part two, that's going to be one hell of a filter .proper belt and braces 😋.. were did you find Colin 🌱🌴 the wild man of Borneo...top man!!!!!
I bought him on a National Geographic online auction under the heading "Missing Link", lol
He reminds me of myself when I used to do landscaping as he just gets on and grafts all day which is a rare quality in this day and age.
Nice build. Did you put in a check valve along your inflow route to prevent backflow from the filters to the pond in case of a power outage? It's a little thing but a huge safety feature to prevent the muck from messing up your pond if the power goes out and the filter water backflows to the pond. Easier than losing fish and cleaning the main pond. What will you be doing with the tubs beside your big filters?
Now I have to check out your other videos. Cheers mate frm Canada.
If the power goes out then the water will drain from the vortex filters but the brushes in them should still hold the muck and the bottom of the vortex will hold the muck so I reckon on the scale of things not much will go back to the pond.
Each of the sections will be covered in a different video although the next part will have some notes on the 2" fittings I'm using on the inlet and vortex parts as well as the main brush chamber. I've got another 50 big brushes arriving on Wednesday so I'll see how far they go - probably about half what I need for the brush chamber, lol
What are good test kits for water quality?
Some silicone vacuum grease might ensure a good seal at all those connections.
Hi Richard , cant wait for next episode. What size pump will you be running on this filter?
Probably around 30000 litres per hour.
Good job, if you put a drum on it you won’t regret it. Just a little one for you, with it being pump fed we always put a float switch on the pump that way if a pipe ever came loose or burst because it froze or something, it won’t empty all your water out. You can raise it but then the pump can burn out. Just a little peace of mind. I know it’s basically a lake😂😂 look forward to seeing the next one👍
It would take days of pumping for me to notice a drop in level, lol
Yes a drum may be a good solution - I'll see how the 'traditional' approach handles the extremely fine muck then make changes in the Winter if necessary. The pond is close to 20' deep in the middle so never freezes and I've not had a problem with any external filters freezing as a result....so far....
Pondguru I more meant the pipe work being brittle in freezing temperatures causing a burst. With that amount of water though I suppose the main concern would be drowning the neighbours 😂😂
I’ve just installed 7 drums at the new shop, they just make life so much easier. Hopefully this clears it up for you though. Look forward to seeing the progress.
I'll make sure I drain out the vortex filters if the system is turned off in the winter but the intention is to run it all year.
Yes I wish we had a drum of two when I had the shop as it would have made things easier - a drum at the very start of this system may ultimately be the way forward but I can't justify the expense presently......I'm still saving for a pump.
Plus I need a new lawnmower, lol
Pondguru 😂😂never ends does it😂😂definitely not the cheapest things and especially with the amount of water you have to filter.
I'm trying to talk my wife into us getting a robot lawn mower - I could probably have bought 3 drums with that cash, lol
Hi rich great video as always. I'm just wondering and I'm sure many others are too, when are you going to do an update video of the jebao pressure filter bakki shower configuration.
Since our phone conversation I too have been using the jebao pressure filter as a pre filter and it has been a Godsend especially in the most recent hot spell we have had.
My maintenance routine is now a pleasure as there is nothing much for me to do compared to the old chore.
Regards
Thomas.
The one I used is a Lotus / Sicce pressure filter and I should really do a video showing how it is cleaned out. I will be integrating it into the big filter system - pump in final tub will pump through the pressure filter then up to 2 x shower filters and back to pond.
I'm glad you're having good success with the pressure filter / shower combo as it makes perfect sense to use them together.
Pondguru, credit where credit due Richard, without your wealth of knowledge myself and I'm sure others around the world would still be struggling to work these things out.
Thanks again for all your help buddy 👍
No worries - we all are learning and I love to learn too. I'm certainly no expert in anything, lol
The only thing that I would personally do, is on the drains is fit a gate valve as on opening it would created an instant vacuum, whereas a ball valve will leak back any instant vacuum suction until fully opened.
When can we expect part 3 ?
That is an awe-inspiring project that could cement your title as the pond guru!
If I may ask, are you considering building your own hydroelectric plant to supply the power necessary to drive the system? (just kidding).
I look forward to seeing those beautiful trout swimming in crystal-clear water.
I thought of felling the bottom part of the wood and installing a whole bank side of solar panels but that will be a hell of an expense.
Yes, I'm really looking forward to doing the other parts of this filter build whenever I can carve out a spare hour or two for doing it.
Hi from Leeds! Great video and project. I love over engineered stuff this is perfect. Quick question though, I have a blagdon all in one 9000 filtration system doing a 400 litre afinity pond. I upgrade if from the pre supplied 3000l system so it's massive overkill for the size pond I have. I can power a fountain as well as a water feature with the pump outlet. I had one going to the fountain and the other just had a L Piece coming out with a small piece of Flexi hose to basically create a circular current in my pond. So the dirt was stirred up from the bottom, kept in suspension then eventually picked up by the filter. Someone told me to use that 2nd outlet instead to aerate the surface further instead of doing the circular flow so now I have a longer piece of hose cable tied to the fountain standpipe so it's also blasting out of the water? Which is better for my pond? The latter means the water isn't as fast moving maybe the goldfish prefer that? But the first one seemed to stop as much settling on the bottom?
There is no real right or wrong answer to that as you need decent water surface disturbance but ideally want the muck to be swept into the filter too. Just experiment and see what works best - as long as the fish aren't battling against a current it will be fine.
Pondguru yeah lots of surface agitation and fish seem to prefer it without the water going in a circular whirlpool effect underneath means they can stay still. The other way round seems to keep things cleaner done water tests again today, pH 8.2, ammonia & nitrite both 0 and nitrate 5.0.
That's a very high pH for a pond but fine for goldfish / koi. Nitrate is high as expected for a pond but unless you plant it heavily or install a shower filter filled with porous media you won't really lower that.
Yeah pH has been consistent at that, someone has said driftwood
would lower it a bit? I was also told the nitrate was low. The next level below is 0.
Its a geat design but I am questioning the 4" rubber elbow. They are routinely used for drain lines and not supply lines and are usually not NSF. I have seen them deteriorate over time and when you remove them they smell like gasoline... Have you had any issues with them? Also, those pre-filter brushes are going to need some regular manipulation to dislodge collected waste. You dont seem to have much room for that. You might get to it later, but I was wondering what the plan is for that? I would put an access door in the deck ..
\m/ wasn't expecting a Deathstars t-shirt
Good t-shirt, deathstars,cyanide brilliant tune
My favorites are probably Synthetic Generation, Last Ammunition, Termination Bliss and Perfect Cult although they have loads more really great tunes - they're sadly under appreciated in this time of manufactured radio crap which is used for social programming.
Looks like a massive amount of maintenance on that system.
I have this same setup on my 20 gal
lol
will this be enough for my 55 gallon?
Nicely coming along ! I see you needed Jesus's help. Yeah you call him Colleen but we all saw it was Jesus ! " if you build it he will come" I guess ...... and he did. lol. A side with the joke ...... Those things looking awesome and can you imagine if all those brushes somehow even mechanically/motorized way could turn the opposite of the vortex inside so it would be more surface touching the water. I hope you make the top removable for easy access for cleaning them. Once it works then every month do just 1 cleaning and next month the other then the next the third and so on. Every 6 months with a giant snake clean the pipes and keep running it with ease ! I can see what a beauty will be when it's completed ! Can't wait !
Are you not worried about pressure loss from the pump (1 1/2 - 2 inch) to the vortex feed pipes (4 inch)?
Why elevate the vortex units? Each one is bottom-in/top-out, so you were already getting plenty of "height" for feeding the downstream containers.
Great video,will not the water go in the first vortex and Forget the last two
It should flow through all 3 more or less equally but I'll run them without brushes in to see what the flow is doing before adding brushes back in.
@pondguru why not install the pump after the vortex filter that would pull a vacuum on the inlet pipe of the vortex filter that way the large muck could be filtered before it hits the pump impeller.
That only works if the filters are gravity fed and are at the same level as the pond water since the vortex units are not sealed there will be no vacuum effect. Ideally this would be gravity fed with the pump at the end of the system but that's not an option on this pond unfortunately.
Can you elaborate why the rubber elements help you change the configuration? With solid PVC as long as you don't glue them, it remains equally possible to change the filter configuration
With push-fit PVC the fittings can stick after a few years in one position and the seals can also perish. The rubber allows for easy removal of any of the parts of the filter and since making the video I moved the filter to the far end of my pond.
Just use whatever suits your filter situation and budget as there is no set way to put anything like this together.
Will you be doing any fly fishing this season?
I haven't managed to do any hobbies at all this year - last time I went metal detecting in UK was February last year, lol
I am hoping to do some fishing but my business has been so crazy and I've been doing a load of work around the house in the garden (which I will probably film as it nears completion) so available free time is extremely limited - I'm currently working 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week so when I finish work I'm physically and mentally drained....the good thing about that is I have no problem sleeping, lol
The trade site for Biohome is almost complete so I'm hoping when that goes live it will allow various shops and online sellers to take some of the pressure off me by creating other places people can buy the filter media.
Looking good! Just a quickie, why do you not go 4” straight from the pond? Really look forward to see it all working!
If it was gravity fed that would be the way forward but for a pump fed system it generally wouldn't pump through a 4" pipe all the way (unless it was an huge industrial pump at a sewage plant or treatment plant shifting mega amounts of water)
Pondguru thanks for replying 😃 I get ya! Looking forward to see how it all performs! Hopefully it will just be a few months of constant cleaning out of the filters before the pond stabilises.
any updates coming?
After 3 years what is your opinion on vortex filter? Do you have better solutions?
It takes up a lot of space bu in the new filter I moved the vortex filters to they work well to keep the rest of the filter clean. They are also handy as they settle out the muck which is then drained down directly into my vegetable gardens to feed the plants.
It's an old way of doing things and for more modern filtration a drum filter or a sieve is definitely the way to go as it takes up so little space compared to the vortex filters.
👍
Would it have not been more effective to have the top of one filter feed the bottom of the other so as you go along the water is cleaner and cleaner before exiting the final one
Hi…
What water Speed (or pressure) is needed for the Vortex for working as intended? My concern is that you will not reach that min. Speed needed to generate the spin. First you pump through a small pipe into the big infeed pipe to your 3 vortexes. The flow Speed goes with the second potence of the Diameter , means the Speed will be much less compared to the original flow Speed. Then you divide the flow into 3 vortexes… and this is without taking in account the fricton losses inside the pipe which is considerable (actually the flow goes with the third potence of the Diameter, means you reduce the Diameter to half, then the flow is 8 times less).
I guess your vortexes will just fill up with water without generating the spin… what makes you think this will work?
Best regards
The main problem is with the particle size I'm trying to settle as it's not like a 'normal' situation of large visible lumps of fish muck and therefore much of it stays in suspension unless there is structure for it to cling to, hence the brushes in the vortex filters - I suppose I could have just gone with a rectangle tank for the first stage instead of 'vortex' filters but the base shape of the vortex does lend itself to settlement. I'll see how the flow is with / without brushes and assess the effectiveness of them after a few months of running but they could be altered if necessary since fittings are rubber.
Shouldn’t the gasket on the bulkheads be on the submerged side with the locking nut on the outside for ease of tightening?
The fittings can go either way and still work but the seal would not generally be on same side as locking nut.
I used gutter pipe in my filter construction. Beware, the solvent joint leak, but I used silicone rubber to fix this.
The solvent pipe and glue I will be using seems to fuse together and I've never had a leak in 20+ years of using this stuff so I'm sure it will be OK.
👍👍
Hey Richard is there something like bio home I can buy in the US to put in a pressure filter for a Koi pond your friend G-man
Most pressure filters don't lend themselves to a really good porous media as the conditions are too dirty for the media to be effective. As long as the media did not affect the foams you could use red / brown lava rock since it has the majority of the surface area externally so works well in muck without clogging. The ideal set up would be to pass the pressure filter outlet to a shower filter and use good porous media in that - then the pressure filter would do the mechanical work followed by the shower filter doing the biological work.
Hi, is 300g of biohome standard filter media enough to fill up 2 trays of the sun sun canister filter? I really enjoy your videos and im Glad that you give good and proper advices unlike fish stores out there. Thanks!
As far as I know there are 3 different sizes of the SunSun canisters.
Best media would be either the biohome mini ultra or biohome ultimate for a canister filter and the filters hold the following amount in each tray:
1000 lph = 1kg
1400 lph = 1.5kg
2000 lph 1.7kg
Pondguru thanks will be getting the ultra one after much consideration
Biohome ultra is far too big for a canister filter - you would need the mini ultra for a canister.
Pondguru sure will get the ultimate one instead because the store I’m currently at doesn’t offer the mini ones
Groovy - sound good to me. Ultimate is basically the mini ultra with added trace elements to allow bacteria to set up even faster.
When’s the next video coming out?
Shouldn't the rubber gasket on the bulkhead fitting be on the inside???
The fittings can go either way and still work but the seal would not generally be on same side as locking nut.
Is there a specific reason for plumbing the vortex filters in parallel???
In tandem or sequence - it doesn't really matter as they are really for brushes to 'catch' fine muck.
The main problem is with the particle size I'm trying to settle as it's not like a 'normal' situation of large visible lumps of fish muck and therefore much of it stays in suspension unless there is structure for it to cling to, hence the brushes in the vortex filters - I suppose I could have just gone with a rectangle tank for the first stage instead of 'vortex' filters but the base shape of the vortex does lend itself to settlement. I'll see how the flow is with / without brushes and assess the effectiveness of them after a few months of running but they could be altered if necessary since fittings are rubber.
Pondguru I was only wondering if you did it that way to slow the water down to give the suspended solids more time to settle out.
Due to the tiny size of the particles yes, that was my thinking behind setting them up like this but time will tell how effective (or otherwise) it is.
How can you stop a raised pond from freezing in winter
:/ heating, insolating it with dobble layer acrylic roofing over it, lower the water level 2 ground, if deep enough, cirkulating the water, not with ice cold air tho.
Nut on the outside of the tank fitting surely? That way it is soooo much easier to tweak it up if it is leaking.
See previous comments / answers (it doesn't really matter which side the nut goes on)
Wow, you found Catweasle..
Dang...So how many gallons do you estimate your pond to be Richard?? Looks like those badboys could filter Lake Tahoe!!
It is probably around 1,000,000 litres (450k UK gallons) give or take 50,000 or so, lol
Thats awesome, some day I'll have one!
Will the brushes not hinder the vortex?
I'd stick the brushes in the next stage.
But then again, u r the pondguru ;) lol
The brushes may come out of the vortex filters but I'll see how they perform. The suspended clay particles are so small I was worried that a non-brush vortex would simply spin the particle laden water around and allow it from one part of the filter to the other as I noticed the only place such fine dirt settles out is on the plant roots which are around the pond - brushes are in to replicate that and the next chamber after the vortex units will have maybe 100+ brushes in.
@@pondguru i always hear that brushes are a pain to clean. wil all those brushes be not a maintance no no? or bussy cleaning all your free weekends?
don't forget the drain tap open, drain all the water by mistake
Haha found a slight edit mistake, when you say Dyson vacuum twice
I should be publicly flogged.....
Well that's not gonna want cleaning until next decade lol