DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[hennible]

Thanks!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I had some time to think over this whole thing....

No bleach on anything.... If you feel you need to scrub use rock salt.... With regard to Activated Carbon filters.... you need alot... Like the equivalent of that same white bucket full. This is just to remove chemicals.... you really dont need it.

Also for this duck pond.... I would build up to at least a 40 gallon trash can full of filter medum.... I have an idea but I have to draw it up to show it ..... These kinds of filters have thousands of different iterations....

Sketch to come eventually.

deb

 

[aart]

You'd need some pretty significant solids filtration to keep that water clean......and that's hard to get off the bottom without a good bottom drain in the pool itself...the pump just churns it up too small to filter out efficiently. An upflow filter with settlement area at the bottom and a valve on the bottom to dump the solids everyday might help.

I spent 5 years studying koi pond filtration and the key is to get the poop out of the pond and then out of the filter to get it out of the water column...otherwise you'll never get rid of the algae blooms.

You'd waste more water cleaning the filter than you would just dumping the whole pond every few days.

 

[hennible]

True enough on the water usage but it saves my back.
Thanks for the info

 

[gclark94560]

You'd need some pretty significant solids filtration to keep that water clean......and that's hard to get off the bottom without a good bottom drain in the pool itself...the pump just churns it up too small to filter out efficiently. An upflow filter with settlement area at the bottom and a valve on the bottom to dump the solids everyday might help.

I spent 5 years studying koi pond filtration and the key is to get the poop out of the pond and then out of the filter to get it out of the water column...otherwise you'll never get rid of the algae blooms.

You'd waste more water cleaning the filter than you would just dumping the whole pond every few days.

How about using an Aquaculture set up? Raise veggies or grass for the chicks with the pond water and let the plants filter the water?? You pump the water through hydroponic type tanks.

 

[aart]

True enough on the water usage but it saves my back.
Thanks for the info

You could use the pump to empty most of water the pool ;-) then dump the rest and refill with the garden hose.


Actually looking aback at your filter...you have an upflow...next time you dump it to clean it if you put a valve in the bottom of the bucket and elevate the bottom of your filter media it would greatly improve the function.
Ir would allow you to open the valve and dump a lot of the solids each day, top off the total volume with a little fresh water to replace what you dump with the solids.
Then when the media clogs you can back wash it from the top with the valve open to rinse the media.

 

[hennible]

Lol, yes I've pumped and dumped.
So your saying open space under the filter media? And empty that with a valve?

 

[hennible]

Gclark94560
That would be ideal.

 

[aart]

Lol, yes I've pumped and dumped.
So your saying open space under the filter media? And empty that with a valve?

Yes.

Probably best to turn off your pump and clamp off the hose somehow (or valve in the pump hose there would be good) so the filter doesn't just drain back into the pond, then open the bottom filter bucket valve and let some crap drain out of the bottom of the filter.

Refill the filter bucket, or flood it with fresh water while the valve is still open(this will rinse the filter media), then open the pump hose valve and turn the pump back on.

 

[hennible]

There's a valve on the hose. Thanks, great ideas. I can imagine how well that could work. Probably need a bigger bucket first, made from less rigged plastic so I can cut a hole with out cracking it. I will try it, far more likely to get that done then anything major ( like a full pond with plants etc)