duck pond filtration

[Cherib603]

Lava rocks give off a lot of dust into the filter and there are much better filter materials such as floor scrubber pads. Seriously, search Skippy Filters and click on the Skippy company site. They explain everything.

 

[Cherib603]

This is a rather dry explanation, but bear with it as it explains things very well

 

[Cherib603]

Lava rocks were commonly used years ago because there weren't better materials available' but they are heavy and dusty and difficult to clean. A simple skippy filter using floor scrubber pads - which are cheap, plentiful and light - seems to be the way to go.

 

[pjuhl2313]

Hi all. So my wife and I have 7 chickens and now we have ventured into ducks. We have 7 khaki cambells and I have built a coop, pond and "duck run". We usually let our birds just run around in the yard so space isn't an issue. Our pond is 55 gallon pond from lowes. I know that the pond size is a bit tight for 7 ducks but I will address that later. I'm having trouble trying to design and build a pump and filter system. I have a 800 gph submersible pump to use. I am open to doing a two barrel system with lava rocks or bio balls. My question or problem is how do I pump the water from the pond to the filter barrels without gunking up the pump? I've also emailed the skippy filter people and am awaiting a response on advise. Any other advise would be nice! Thanks!

 

[Eggscoozme]

If you see in any way unhealthy water i would start to filter it.

I am not involved with 4-H, but we have it in our county. I didn't even know what it meant until I read your profile diddy, whatever you call it. I AGREE with you! I am also a believer

 

[Eggscoozme]

This is a rather dry explanation, but bear with it as it explains things very well

Thank You for posting this! I would like to give it a try, but was disappointed to hear how LOOOOOONG it takes to get the bacteria established. Even if I could MAKE my pond in May, sounds like it wouldn't be useable until possibly late June. So we'd have 3, MAYBE 4 months of use before Winter weather hits. Does that sound right (we have gotten snow on Halloween)? Does this system work in freezing weather? For example, if we put in a couple of bucket de-icers from TSC, and put them in the stock tank (NOT the pond), could this keep going all Winter long? That would be the ULTIMATE pond for us ) !!

 

[Duckmom239]

Lava rocks were commonly used years ago because there weren't better materials available' but they are heavy and dusty and difficult to clean. A simple skippy filter using floor scrubber pads - which are cheap, plentiful and light - seems to be the way to go.

Do you currently use the Skippy system? We have a few ducks and I just worry that with all the sand they trek in, that it will really gunk up the system and not work properly. I just want to know if you use this with ducks specifically.