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Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:20 pm
by steven perkins
hi

what a great looking pool and garden :D

looks great :)

good job :)

perky

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:04 pm
by Gazza
Hi Ed,

Is this the pond in your new place looks cool :?:

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:56 pm
by eds
Gazza wrote: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.

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:13 pm
by Gazza
Hi Ed,

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

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 :D

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:59 pm
by 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.


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Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:46 pm
by B.Scott
Looks like a pretty hefty pump you have there Gazza!

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:11 pm
by Gazza
Hi Scotty,

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

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 :D

Re: Building Ponds & Filtration Questions ?????

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:28 pm
by B.Scott
Yes the blue one was the one I was looking at. I know them and they are hungy little sods!