How do you filter a pond that is on the ground. You cant use a conventional wet/dry cuz the pond is on the ground. Or can you. Im just trying to get some insight on how to filter one of those 300gal rubbermaid ponds. Any ideas?
Filtering a pond
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Set the wet/dry just above the top edge of the tank and pump the water up to the filter then let the water flow back into the pond as a waterfall.
Set the wet/dry just above the top edge of the tank and pump the water up to the filter then let the water flow back into the pond as a waterfall.
have this with an fx5 works well! I used rubbermaids for the filter too! First section is 2 prefilters, second is bioballs, then 3rd is those plastic sponge thing and then gathers in the 4th and spills back to the tank
This was the sort of thing I had over my tank water pumped up by pump flows through gravity takes it away had extra hole at to as emergency over flow if media got blocked. But if you are running with your idea you must have the hole drilled inside the tank, about a half-inch below the water level.That way, if your pump failed and a back-siphon occurred, you'd only lose as much water as was in the tank above the hole before the hole was exposed to the air, breaking the siphon. This is the way I had it set up in my tank and it works correctly every time you turn off the pump.
Exactly...Bravo...
Good drawing.
With this you unit can gravity feed it and pump it out or pump into it and gravity feed out.
Only difference is you don't need the hole for anti-siphon.
And speaking of holes, if ypu use it put a second hole 180 degrees from the first, so if one gets blocked the other still works.
Conider using a vortex style settling tank which is fed by a series of bottem drains. The settling tank can be burried at the same depth as the pond and will filter out your solid waste before it reaches your bio filter. Do a google for vortex settling.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps