Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

[steven perkins]

hi

what a great looking pool and garden

looks great

good job

perky

[Gazza]

Hi Ed,

Is this the pond in your new place looks cool

[eds]

Hi Ed,

Is this the pond in your new place looks cool

Afraid not! This is at my folks house. Built it just after leaving university. Now I've moved into my own place I'm digging a new pond - a lot less fancy but better designed to be low maintenance and grow koi on. Will be bigger gallonage too, about 5,500gallons. The weather and being really busy at work has made me stop the build for a while though but once the night's draw out a bit I'll crack on. Nearly dug out enough to laye the floor of the filter house, then I can hire a digger to dig out the pond.

[Gazza]

Hi Ed,

Bust at work lol come on i know you better than that

OK i had a feeling it was your old pond and looking forward to the pictures of the new build as i know you have done a lot of research into the new pond

[Gazza]

Hi Guys,

Sorry a bit later than i wanted as i have been a bit busy of late.

Here are some of the pictures of the filter build as we finished of the new pond build i used four vortex units all connected together with twin 4" pipes to stop any head loss and give me a good flow through at all times. I installed all the equipment within the shed so it will all be out of any bad weather and always easy to get to if any change is needed. So cleared out the shed of any rubbish and cleaned it out ready for the new pond equipment.

[B.Scott]

Looks like a pretty hefty pump you have there Gazza!

[Gazza]

Hi Scotty,

Hey it was so long ago i had forgotten about that pump

OK from left to right so we don't get confused the Blue pump on the left is for the waste only as this is all pumped to waste and then you have the Sequence 750 which was on the skimmer line and then there was a Sequence 1/6 which was replaced for a Sequence 750 as the old pump was to fast for the set up.

There is a few changes from when fist built but you spotted the pumps straight off

[B.Scott]

Yes the blue one was the one I was looking at. I know them and they are hungy little sods!