Waterfall pond filter?

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the barely balls work great once they start to rot,put them some where that they can roll around or you can but the bottle of it,i like the balls my self ,also you can build your own filter just look on utube.i sold all the ones i bought for the ones i made and i feel they work alot better 18fisher
 
Crisroom said:
Yep, I use them. I tried it instead of a UV and it cleared up my green water in 8 days. Saved a ton of money. I place them on top of my waterfall filter.
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Thanks that seems like a simple fix. I'll be on the look out for some of those. Where should I be looking? Home Depot maybe?


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Before you jump on an expensive uv filter, you need to just keep the waterfall on 24/7. Just like an aquarium, the pump is the heart. Without pumping the blood is dead. You don't need a filter in a small unstocked pond, just circulation. Or else it's just a stagnant cesspool of stinky algae water.


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TheRealCramer said:
Before you jump on an expensive uv filter, you need to just keep the waterfall on 24/7. Just like an aquarium, the pump is the heart. Without pumping the blood is dead. You don't need a filter in a small unstocked pond, just circulation. Or else it's just a stagnant cesspool of stinky algae water.


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Thats a good point. I was hoping to not run it all the time cause it is pretty loud an I'm worried about how much extra it would ad to my bill. Since I'm already have a 15, 55, an 125 gallon aquariums in the house. Maybe I can look into a smaller pump that can be ran all the time.

Thanks for the help everyone


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I have a pond and waterfall too. I had the same problems as you are having when I started it. A water lily would help a lot, they grow so fast sucking up all the nutrients. I added aquarium filter media to the "steps" of the waterfall creating a lot of bio filtration. Of course you have to leave it on 24/7 for that to be effective. If its a pond with a liner and not natural you can get sediment from a natural pond to use kind of like live rock or sand. I did that and got all kinds of natural shrimps and Insects that are still In there. From there I just put rosy minnows In it because I wanted to attract native newts, which worked and breed like crazy every year. Anyway that's my experience with my pond, hopefully you can get some ideas for that. And mi e is totally cycled now, I never get algae or anything, and as long as I keep leaves out of it the water is very clear


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Most modern pond pumps run pretty cheap, mine is like 15 dollars a month running all the time


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