This filter design will work? (a video question)

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This is yours?

Calculate the head pressure (8ft) and add enough for the extra bends and small pipe, so call it 12ft-14ft of head and plan your pump accordingly.

What are you using for a pre-filter?

It's called a 'bio-tower' for a reason ;).

Do you have adiagram of hoe the filter/bio-tower are hooked up?

Why put the filter so far away?

Dr Joe

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nice setup, the bio tower you made will also have bio filtration in it, i dont want to discourage you but the whole barrel could have been a bio tower as the bacteria works better when in contact with air(hence the biotower design) you might want to think about mechanical filtration and as far as the pump goes just look at the curve and it will tell you.
 
Dr Joe, thqanks so much for viewing my clip, I need your advice.

To answer your questions:
Q - "What are you using for a pre-filter?"
A - in the barrel I have 6 large floor buffing pads on top of all of the scrubbies.
In the tower I have a cut stack of floor buffing pads , 6 inches thick that fit inside the large pipe on top of all the pot scrubbers.
(It's not a tight fit but it's close)

There is also a 1/2 inch overflow pipe inside the big pipe in case the filter pads clog completely.


No but I can tell you and I can shoot some video tonight where I go over how the water will flow.

The QUESTION I have is will a pump be able to lift the water this high?

As I built this filter design it seemed fine, but today as I finished I stood back and looked at the tower and thought to myself, "Holy Smoke, thats up there!"
 
soggysandwich;1596989; said:
yeah why did you put it so far away?
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The position is because I needed to get the darn filter up and out of the way of my wife;s car and the car doors.

When I get my BIG TRUCK in there and my wife parks next to me against this wall, there is really no room to walk around the cars at all.

I will shoot a video toi show you what I had to deal with.

The shelves were there already and are bolted to the wall, and the top shelf is high enough so that i dont hit my head on the filter when i slip by it.

It just seemed like a good place, it was handy, FREE, ready to go, and also i didnt have to build anything...
Thats most important to me as I just dont have the tools or the skills to make a shelf that could hold the weight here.
 
hangner;1596976; said:
the whole barrel could have been a bio tower as the bacteria works better when in contact with air.
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I got the design for another forum brother, and I did the best i could to copy his design.

The barrel filter , Im told, is more than enough to handle my pond.
The tower was just his addition to bump-up the air exxchange a bit more.
the tower is not needed, it's just something he tossed at the design to have it finished the way he does it on the ponds he sets up.
 
:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:The position is because I needed to get the darn filter up and out of the way of my wife;


That's the way I first read it :D... (;) ;)

Keep the bio-tower material as loose as possible too.

You might consider some poly-fil on top of the floor scrubbers if they don't clean the water enough.

Did you state a specific pump? And what's the total gallonage?
 
The weight on the shelf? cant really make out the shelf makeup, but most of those units are only rated at like 10~25 pounds per shelf depending on the type... this appears to be the economy shelving so that range seems right. the industrial units carry over 100.. I have had ones like yours fail with only a hand full of paint cans. I advise caution..

Looks like you have 2 bio towers..

Most pumps give ratings for flow rates per foot of vertical rise, you will also be restricting flow to balance the two towers, so your rate will be compromised there as well..

I know I didn't answer your question, but I hope this will get you looking in the right direction..
 
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