A pond filter is absolutely essential for all fish ponds.

A homemade pond filter is easily made.

A pond filter is a bio filter. A pond filter creates clean and healthy pond water for your pond fish. A pond filter also assists in solids removal from the garden pond. It is easy to make a diy pond filter

Pond volume is Used to specify pond filter

A fish pond filter comes in different sizes. This pond filter list below shows typical range specifications for a pond filter based upon amount of water in the pond system.

The FREE pond calculators available when you buy the book allow accurate calculation of pond volumes even when shape is unusual.

For example: up to 1,000 litres (or 250 galls)

1,000 litres to 3,000 litres (750 galls)

3,000 litres to 5,000 litres (1,250 galls)

Building a pond filter and bio filters for fish ponds:

One of the most fascinating parts of pond keeping for the enthusiast is the use of a fish pond filter to control pond water quality for the benefit of the fish in a garden pond.

> If you intend to build a koi pond or fish pond of any kind a pond filter is absolutely essential. Bio filters for fish ponds are essential for the good health of your fish and the pond water and your own peace of mind.

If you do not believe in a pond filter I would advise against wasting your money by building a pond . Just imagine if you had to live in your own toilet days on end with the doors closed and and you had no means of flushing the toilet. A very useful home made pond filter can be put together for a few dollars.

Highest quality water is probably the most sought after objective. If the water quality is good everything else falls into place. This is the purpose of using a fish pond filter. They have even been called waterfall filters.

Note we talk of biofiltration and not just filtration. A pond filter is very different to a swimming pool filter.

A fish pond filter is designed to purify pond water by removing waste products created by the fish. The fish pond filter contains specific bacteria which work 24 hours per day doing this biological cleaning inside the pond filter.

A good basic understanding of the difference between a fish pond filter and other filters is important. Please follow the links for a more detailed explanation of how a pond filter works.

The section on biomedia or pond filter media is particularly important for those people who want to construct their own homemade pond filter or in fact already have homemade pond filter. A diy pond filter can be improved dramatically using specific pond biomedia like Alfagrog.

Some people refer to uv pond filter. You should note that the term uv pond filter or uv filters for water gardens refers to items NOT designed to purify water but to remove the pea soup appearance of pond water. uv filters for water gardens are covered in a different web site - see the ultra violet links. pond filter with uv are however commonplace and can save a lot of hassle since it is normally simpler to install a combined pond filter with uv than the two seperate components.

Garden Fish Pond Keeping Articles To Explore

 Actual capacity is function of pond filter media used.

Algae in koi fish ponds, koi pond algae control: please review our web pages on ultra violet light  

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copyright: 2002, this website and many others to do with water gardening and use of water in the home was created by Tony Roocroft who lives in Johannesburg South Africa