How big is the pond you are planning on filtering? That will help us figure out what size of filter you need. And the ceramic rings would also clog less and hold up better than pot scrubbies... You could use pot scrubbies in addition/instead of the mechanical filteration pads on the top and bottom of the bio media part though. Sorry about the complexity of the answer haha
Help with choice of filter?
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It's a 650 liter/ 170 gallon pond. I was hoping on skipping the mechanical filter part, by just using the swirl filter but this all depends on how effective the swirl's gonna be. But using scrubbies at inlet and out sounds promising.
Yep umm its not a huge pond so as long as the bio load is not enormous you would probably be ok with the 5 gal bucket, but as everyone says bigger is always better. The idea of putting the post scrubbies/filter pads at the very top and bottom is almost more for keeping the actual bio media clean so it doesn't get super gunky, than it is for cleaning the actual water. The swirl filter will be your main source of mech filter while the pots scrubbies/filter pad will almost be like protection for the bio media. Also the ceramic rings are actually for more of mechanical filtration then they are for bio, but they do both. The sachem pond matrix material is purely for bio and its basiclly sinsterned glass, and you dont have to get that brand. There is debat that the surface area of the sinsterned glass (which is much bigger than any other media) is most NOT usable by bacteria becuase the holes are smaller than the bacteria and it can't grow in them. So some people like it, others don't it just depends and I am not sure that there are any studies proving or disproving this so it just might be people speculating.
Thanks didnt know ceramic rings were mech filtering.
Ok whats sinsterned glass? Googled it without result. Do u mean like sand blasted glass?
Maybe baby bacteria will grow in them
Ok whats sinsterned glass? Googled it without result. Do u mean like sand blasted glass?
Maybe baby bacteria will grow in them
This is what I get for being lazy and just guessing the spelling, its actually Sintered glass, sorry about that. An example is EHEIM Substrat Pro...
