HI, I would like to covert my CL3 to hold K1, but i have been advised that the K1 will continually overflow into the next chambers due to the fact that they are only seperated by weirs. Has anyone converted a CL filter to accept K1, if so how? ........
many thanks
john
covert CL3 to accept K1
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Re: covert CL3 to accept K1
John,
Justin (Thorny) has just done this with one of these cloverleaf filters and I was discussing it with him not 30-minutes ago. I asked him to take some pictures, so we'll have to hope he's done that and if so we can put them up for you to see.
Justin (Thorny) has just done this with one of these cloverleaf filters and I was discussing it with him not 30-minutes ago. I asked him to take some pictures, so we'll have to hope he's done that and if so we can put them up for you to see.
Re: covert CL3 to accept K1
Hi John, I converted a CL2, not the best way being horizontal pipes but works and was easiest way with what I had.
http://www.koiquest.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8062" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hopefully a better conversion will appear soon
http://www.koiquest.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8062" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hopefully a better conversion will appear soon
Re: covert CL3 to accept K1
Was reading Through this old thread, wondered if anyone had got anywhere with this??
Re: covert CL3 to accept K1
Hi, yes I did this on my old pond.
From memory the set up was as follows for a pump fed system: -
Pump to UVC to Cloverleaf PSS2 with K3 as static media to CL3, bay 1 was brushes, to bays 2 and 3 jap mat to bay 4 Moving K1 media. I used a grid between bays 3 and 4 to stop the K1 flowing back; however the grid was a bit of a pain so in the end I just wedged some jap mat up against the weir and this worked really well.
There was also a grid at the base of bay 4 to stop the K1 going up the return pipe back the pond, this grid was positioned at the point in the bay where it narrows about 2/3rds of the way down.
The whole thing worked well, no probs with parameters. Cleaning was a pain though and used lots of water. I changed the waste from the CL3 to allow each bay to drain separately as otherwise I could not seem to get all the waste out.
Now have new improved pond with gravity fed Nexus 310 but that's another story.
Dom.
From memory the set up was as follows for a pump fed system: -
Pump to UVC to Cloverleaf PSS2 with K3 as static media to CL3, bay 1 was brushes, to bays 2 and 3 jap mat to bay 4 Moving K1 media. I used a grid between bays 3 and 4 to stop the K1 flowing back; however the grid was a bit of a pain so in the end I just wedged some jap mat up against the weir and this worked really well.
There was also a grid at the base of bay 4 to stop the K1 going up the return pipe back the pond, this grid was positioned at the point in the bay where it narrows about 2/3rds of the way down.
The whole thing worked well, no probs with parameters. Cleaning was a pain though and used lots of water. I changed the waste from the CL3 to allow each bay to drain separately as otherwise I could not seem to get all the waste out.
Now have new improved pond with gravity fed Nexus 310 but that's another story.
Dom.