Pond filters are absolutely essential for all fish ponds.
Homemade pond filters are easily made.
Pond filters are bio filters. Pond filters create clean and healthy pond water for your pond fish. Pond filters also assist in solids removal from the garden pond. Clean garden ponds need a pond filter. It is easy to make a diy pond filter
Pond volume is used to specify pond filters
Fish pond filters comes in different sizes. This pond filters list below shows typical range specifications for a pond filters based upon amount of water in the pond system. For example:
ponds 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)
The FREE pond calculators available when you buy the book allow accurate calculation of pond volumes even when shape is unusual. Important for fish pond filters
Building pond filters 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 fish pond filters are 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 pond filters 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. Very useful home made pond filters 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 carrying out biofiltration or using fish pond filters. 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.
Fish pond filters are 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 is particularly important for those people who want to construct their own homemade pond filters or in fact already have homemade pond filters. Diy pond filters can be improved dramatically using specific pond biomedia like Alfagrog.
Some people refer to uv pond filters. You should note that the term uv pond filters 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 filters with uv are however commonplace and can save a lot of hassle since it is normally simpler to install combined pond filters with uv than the two seperate components.
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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
