What sits inside your aerate K1 chamber ?
Lots of 2" stones.
Pipe to fit base with mm size holes
9" disk.
5" Japanese Ceramic Air Stones style.
What do you use.
Thanks
Russ.
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- Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:48 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: What sits inside your aerate K1 chamber ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5565
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:35 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: How long will aged K1 survive out of water low temps ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9459
How long will aged K1 survive out of water low temps ?
I asking because my big aerated K1 chamber exit frooze spilling all the K1 over the side to the frozen ground below, all air stones ware a blocks of bubbles and ice, as a result of exit being blocked I lost a large percentage of water. Filters are boxed in and insulated 2" thick and im going to...
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:48 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Depth of water.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18918
Re: Depth of water.
I will be using a round vortex chamber with the water entering through a 4" pipe 12" from the bottom of the chamber coming up under the matting (10" thick) and leaving through a 4" pipe near the top. My concern was getting enough clear space between chamber bottom and underside o...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:27 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Depth of water.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18918
Re: Depth of water.
Thanks for the reply chris.
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Depth of water.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18918
Depth of water.
What depth of water needs to be above a Japanese matting bio cartridge ?
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:38 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7975
Re: deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
Heollo eds, "What exactly is the problem with the ones you've got?" No problems just wanted to get it right from the start, having a chamber with stright sides and no staging lips that reduce the diameter of the vortex over it hight (what I have now) and a greater distance between chamber ...
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 7:53 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7975
Re: deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
I have found this GM Maxi Vortex Filter but it not cheap.
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:29 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7975
deep vortex chamber for bio jap matting.
Were can i buy 4 ft, 5 ft deep fibreglass vortex chamber with stright sides no lips to use as a bio chamber for jap matting ?
I have a 3ft x 3ft chamber with two lips inside though im holding off using it for now.
Regards
Russ
I have a 3ft x 3ft chamber with two lips inside though im holding off using it for now.
Regards
Russ
- Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:21 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Japanese matting biological chamber
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4422
Japanese matting biological chamber
Pond is 6ft x 3ft round with a surface of 28.26ft.
Filter will be bottom drain to compact sieve into a round brush chamber then into a round 33" W x 36" H Japanese matting biological .
What are the do`s and don`t when setting up a Japanese matting biological chamber ?
Filter will be bottom drain to compact sieve into a round brush chamber then into a round 33" W x 36" H Japanese matting biological .
What are the do`s and don`t when setting up a Japanese matting biological chamber ?
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:26 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Pond base thickness
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17688
Re: Pond base thickness
Give this a read - http://www.koicymru.co.uk/const2aa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:34 am
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: prefiltering bakki shower.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11743
Re: prefiltering bakki shower.
Retro fit bottom drain gravity fed into a vortex and fit pump external of vortex to shower, in short as I need sleep.
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:04 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Cleaning my Ultrasieve
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6067
Re: Cleaning my Ultrasieve
Im going to try that on my compact sieve.
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:14 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: diy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9386
Re: diy
Give these a read
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- Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: Two 15 watt uv`s in series or parallel ?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4379
Two 15 watt uv`s in series or parallel ?
After readong on here that its gallonage through a uv that matters and not gallonage of the pond to the watts of the uv. My turnover is 2000 gallons through a 15watt uv, I now have a spare 15watt uv to add to this makinkg 30watts (if thats right) should it be place in series or parallel ? Regards Ru...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:58 pm
- Forum: Pond Construction and Pond Gizmo's And DIY bits and pieces
- Topic: compact sieve into K1 advisable ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6985
compact sieve into K1 advisable ?
I have a small 560 gallon pond and would like to know if its advisable go from bottom drain to compact sieve into K1 or should a brush chamber to used inbetween ?
Regards
Russ
Regards
Russ