bio filter redux
Today we tore apart our biofilter. The plants have overun it and the water flow was horrble.
We found a preformed piece for barrels that was very deep with a spill over lip.
1.. Positioned the container at one of our container water garden. 2.. Now will need a black 20′ tube 1/2″ diameter. What we did is form a U but at the bottom part of the U coil it up some. 3.. Now you need to puncture holes in the tube. Mark or keep track of where you want to start and end. Figure this much that will be under the gravel. 4.. Once you have punched the holes in the tube cap one end. 5.. Fill up with gravel 3/4 of the way. 6.. Place your plants in place. We added some rooted plants and some floaters since there is a lip on the overflow that will keep them from returning back to the pond. The plants will absorb the nutrients from the waste products of the fish. The way we set up last year, there was so much nutrients in the water that the Creeping Jenny went crazy and nearly took over the biological filter. 7.. Fill the rest of the gravel in. 8.. Let the pump fill the biological filter up. You can help it along with adding water to it. 9.. Add decholoration. 10.. We added Microbelift to the pond that will help seed the biological filter with the bacteria needed. 11.. Depending on the depth of gravel in the biological filter you could not some msquitto fish or Heteranda Fermose in there to keep the misquittos away. Now your all set. The cap on the end will force the water fvrom the pump in your pond to come out the holes. The water coming from the holes will release into the gravel and fill up till it spills out back into the pond. We have a pump in the pond that is connected to the black tube mentioned in #2. We have already notice a huge difference. Our fish are more active~ They come up to where the water returns from the biologlical filter.
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Category: AquaticLife
