trickle towers.

eds · Post by **eds** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:31 pm

Bob Hart wrote:Also I will have a larger shower than the one in the picture. It will be a 1.5 x size and 4-tiers high. Making it myself pretty soon and it will have a turnover of 6000 gallons hour.

Do you mean you are making the shower yourself? If so Bob can I ask how? I am thinking of adding one to my pond as part of my skimmer set-up that I can then use on my over-wnitering set-up during the colder months.

Gazza · Post by **Gazza** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:42 pm

Hi Ed,

Bob is one of those guys who is forever playing around and making or fixing things (when is is not knocking down his pond

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Here is one of the Bob Hart style Mini Showers and they work a treat

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eds · Post by **eds** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:46 pm

Thanks Gazza. Since posting that I did a search and found the threads of your and Bob's showers. I think I need to learn how to fibreglass, or I might just go with large plastic planting troughs as they were my first plan and I have some wholesale catalogues from my previous job...

tancho111 · Post by **tancho111** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:52 pm

hi eds if you want one similar to bobs i know of someone who makes them in derby not far from you

eds · Post by **eds** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:07 pm

tancho111 wrote:hi eds if you want one similar to bobs i know of someone who makes them in derby not far from you

That would be great thanks. I'm not thinking of doing this until spring as I've got a K1 filter on my QT at the moment, but next spring I'm converting my block filter over to static and fluidised K1 (using that media plus some more) and planning to get/make a shower and use the pump and shower for a skimmer and then use it for the QT next winter as I won't need the skimmer over the winter.
However I could always add the shower to the QT earlier I suppose!!!

eds · Post by **eds** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:48 pm

tancho111 wrote:hi eds if you want one similar to bobs i know of someone who makes them in derby not far from you

Can you pm me the contact details for the guy you know in Derby (or is it you?) Tancho? I definitely think I need to look at running one of these!

Koidaddy · Post by **Koidaddy** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:27 pm

First off, since this is Christmas day, I would like to wish each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas!!

Well, being wintertime in Canada, it's always a good time to work on those pond projects that never did get done during the summer. I am about to build a DIY Trickle Tower. Bouncing around design ideas... not sure on the best design / shape to build. I've attached two photos (one from this site) as possible styles. Your comments, suggestions, pros and cons, would be greatly appreciated along with and photos and plans.

Thanks for your help!!

KD from Canada

vippymini · Post by **vippymini** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:40 pm

well the main difference is the first is a trickle tower and the second is a shower. there is a fundimental difference in how these two items work. you need to make up you mind as to which you want to use as they both do work but the first is used with a slow flow of water and the second has fast/large quantities of water passed through it...

Bob Hart · Post by **Bob Hart** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:10 pm

Hi Koi Daddy,

The key to a shower is a massive turnover and your second photo looks like a shower. The outlet size of pipework though looks small, perhaps 1.5" to 2", perhaps I'm wrong. You need a large pipe return for the turnover required and where I've seen Pipe returns they are usually 4" diameter or so.

boogatee · Post by **boogatee** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:44 am

The shower in the second photo has a 3 inch outlet and biomase (sp) media - the picture is off Malcolm Green's website and (I think) it's made by a Chiltern club memberÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s company. I have seen it working and it's an excellent bit of kit - 3K gallons per hour Ã¢â‚¬â€œ only drawback is, it needs clean (debris free Ã¢â‚¬â€œ no solids) water.

I've also spoken to someone who is using Blagdon ceramic media and dirty water and is having good/excellent results - comparable to using BHM.

The post that the top TT came from ... did the owner not say he only had good results after upping the turnover to shower like speeds??

Jose Antonio · Post by **Jose Antonio** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:20 pm

The first photo is my TT. I empece to working with slightly caudally. Not consegui good results. Only when it uses 100 % of a pump (12.000 l/h) the TT worked perfectly. I had the pond sobrepoblated of kois and with the TT disappeared my problems with the parameters of the water.

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It incorporates a pipe of 50 to raise the water for the interior and a drainage exit of 40. The interior was full of biobolas.

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But I think that a Bakky can work better, but obtaining a wealth of very much major water.

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