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I think you need more pipes and stones for the one air pump. I used a 60L pump and about 8 air lifts/stones Mine wasnt in pipes though but a bodge filter in the shed with limited room. Not been on this site for ages but there is one member done a glass pond above ground and used air to move, try and...

Not sure of your set-up but if you could explain it a bit then help will come but you dont need air stones in the bottom drain but in the up lift part to your filter. If you put a pipe in your pond to "near the bottom" and put an air stone in the pipe a few inches up from the bottom of the...

not been on this site for a while but filter on QT in shed has been running 6 months with air uplifts in filter, only way really cos filter was "adapted" when I got it so water seeps in from all 4 chambers in CL1 when water gets low so it doesnt all go through the k1 unless air uplifted! r...

It`s all proportionate...... any container, resting in the water to take the weight.

Yep just get and empty container catching the water for a minute then calculate. Only way to do it really.

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Bob it was the compact sieve, will try find the link...

I have the same problems amanda! Small garden but like to rebuild, easier than housing the fish and can take my time but did look at "digging" the filters in and immediately hit tree roots! Would love a blank canvas! I have a sieve and static k1 but quite a bit gets through though. Flour s...

Surely can`t be partial elec leakage? trip would go pop?

Must be nerves............. interesting one that!

On the compact sieve you just remove the grid and bash it on the compo heap! don`t even turn the pump off(these are pump fed) Sometimes I just grab the worst of the crap collected by hand or move it away from the overflow outlet. Some times I take out the sieve part and give it a good clean on the b...

Anything works but probably a bought one works better. My MKIII is the worst one I built but it does something! 1ft bit of 4" pipe in the last bay of filter with 2 air stones in it. Funnel glued to the top and a bit of pipe taking it to a bucket!!! I do wonder though the KH has got a bit low re...

increasing DO as in Dissolved organics? or what??

Misting as I have read is a way of adding water to pond and gassing off the chlorine??? Or am I way off the mark again???

Thanks Jane, have you got one? If so where did you put it?

Piccy if poss?

Hows your pond doing?

Andy & Becky

Let me know if you find any! after pumping through a sieve and then through static k1 I put a stainless flour sieve at the outlet and it was catching stuff!

would it work to fit a T near the nexus with the straight through bit to waste to purge Lose the 2 x 90 bends outside the pond and keep it straight(I think you said you have to do this though) Run a pipe to centre of pond with and upside down drain on the end and air above it so you get the sucking ...