OK having stressed the importance of a
good, reliable and efficient filter ... Lets take a look at
how they work and how they should be installed ;
The fitting of a suitable Filter and other
equipment must be considered when you are designing your
pond system, and you must decide on this important item
before commencing to construct the pond.
There are just two basic systems for any
Pond -
The first is a Pump Fed system where the
pump that will be circulating the water through the filtration
system, is placed normally in the bottom of the pond.
The second one is a 'Gravity Fed System'
which is just a little more complicated, but basically it
works by transferring the water and the debris from the bottom
of the pond down a central pipe which runs from the bottom of
the pond and connects directly on to the filtration system ..
and the water level in the filter is then at the same level as
it is in the pond ... this is without doubt the
better of the two systems and we would always encourage anyone
starting to build a pond to use this method ....
Far to many would be Koi keepers fail to
appreciate just how important the Filter is and how
large the most suitable filter for the pond will be - and carry on
by quickly deciding on what size of pond
they want, but forget about the area that they are going to require
for the filtration system ... in many cases they do not
have enough space left to actually have a suitable filter system
that is big enough to support the pond that they have already
designed - and more than likely already started work on ... So
please do not fall into that trap .. it is a very hard one to
get out of once you have done the work.
When you have decided what size pond you
wish to have and allowed sufficient area for the filtration
system then you must also which type of pipe you are going to
use then you need to decide if you are going the bottom
drains directly to the main drainage or to the settlement
chamber of the filter system.
(see our feature about Bottom Drains
and there purpose) The various sketches contained within our
web pages will help explain this to you.
For further information please contact us at < info@koicarp.net
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Please take a look at our superb range of Filtration
Systems, we are sure to have one to suit your own application
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