BonnieIN
03-14-2006, 08:18 PM
I'm tired of cleaning brushes, floor maintenace pads and scrubbies and being covered from head to toe with fish poo.. so I'm doing an upgrade.
So far I've purchased a box of Springflo plus I have embossed box strapping and I'm going to mix them.
I'm ordering 7 cu ft of Bioflow 9 which is similar to Kaldness.
Purchased two Medo 50L Airpumps and Screen and pump for DIY microscreen.
Plus a 2nd Submersible Pump which I "might" make a small trickle tower and make over the top of chamber #3.
The 6000 G main pond is connected to a bottom pond (approx. 1500G goldie pond) by Two DIY skimmers which are gravity fed into a stream then flows into the lower pond.
The lower pond has a Skimmer and small filtration box for mechanical filtration,then goes to a Sequence 5800 pump which goes up to each of the 100 G stocktanks.
There is a ball valve next to each stocktank.
2" PVC with a ball valve is ran from the second stoctkank to the left side of the pond which goes to a very small waterfall.
2 DIY bottom drains from the main pond go into chamber #1.
In the chambers there are currently three 4 inch PVC pipes to tie each one together. (We put so many in because we weren't for sure about flow and thought extras could be capped off if needed.)
From the concrete chambers, there's a 3600 Sequence Pump and UV light after the bay.
From there the flow goes into each stocktank (waterfall) and goes back into the main pond.
Now here's what I have in mind:
Chamber # 1 (146 gallons) --DIY Microscreen
#2(125G) DIY Eazy.... Static
#3 (125G)Moving Bed
#4 and #5 two 100G Stocktanks - additional bio filled with strapping.
(do you think I need to add continuous air to them)
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Bonnie
Here's a pix of my filtration bay and a rough diagram of my existing pond layout.
So far I've purchased a box of Springflo plus I have embossed box strapping and I'm going to mix them.
I'm ordering 7 cu ft of Bioflow 9 which is similar to Kaldness.
Purchased two Medo 50L Airpumps and Screen and pump for DIY microscreen.
Plus a 2nd Submersible Pump which I "might" make a small trickle tower and make over the top of chamber #3.
The 6000 G main pond is connected to a bottom pond (approx. 1500G goldie pond) by Two DIY skimmers which are gravity fed into a stream then flows into the lower pond.
The lower pond has a Skimmer and small filtration box for mechanical filtration,then goes to a Sequence 5800 pump which goes up to each of the 100 G stocktanks.
There is a ball valve next to each stocktank.
2" PVC with a ball valve is ran from the second stoctkank to the left side of the pond which goes to a very small waterfall.
2 DIY bottom drains from the main pond go into chamber #1.
In the chambers there are currently three 4 inch PVC pipes to tie each one together. (We put so many in because we weren't for sure about flow and thought extras could be capped off if needed.)
From the concrete chambers, there's a 3600 Sequence Pump and UV light after the bay.
From there the flow goes into each stocktank (waterfall) and goes back into the main pond.
Now here's what I have in mind:
Chamber # 1 (146 gallons) --DIY Microscreen
#2(125G) DIY Eazy.... Static
#3 (125G)Moving Bed
#4 and #5 two 100G Stocktanks - additional bio filled with strapping.
(do you think I need to add continuous air to them)
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Bonnie
Here's a pix of my filtration bay and a rough diagram of my existing pond layout.