koiguyoz
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May 25, 2005, 11:57 AM
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Re: [lilhelper] My pond of almost a year
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lilhelper, I think its time we made contact, so I can help you make a successful trickle tower...does that sound okay? PM me to either exchange email contacts or contact me through MSN.
Just as a few pointers, if you still have that same pond you do on your website, divide the water content it holds by 10 to figure out the size of your trickle tower. You can go larger, like I did on one of my other ponds. I personally believe its possible to even hide it given a piped return from the trickle tower.
So, what would we need?
*Submersible pump (probably a fountain pump)...although if you were willing to do it, rip the entire pond out, add in a bottom drain using a shower drain, running it into a garbage bin or similar, connected via PVC piping and using a shower drain again as an inlet point, the garbage bin being sat at the same level as the pond...voila! a settlement chamber!
*Pipe from pump to above ground trickle tower.
*Trickle tower - could use a 60 litre garbage bin, if that was 10% of your pond volume being 600 litres. The tower should preferably be made from flexible plastic as hard plastic breaks when drilled through and has bits tightened into it.
*Enough lava rocks to fill the tower, other things like bioballs I've used with small success.
*Pipe output (instead of a bulkhead) I used a shower drain tightened well. Use teflon tape to seal the threads of the shower drain. You can use an additional pipe from the output to run the water into the pond and hide the TT.
*A crate or two to sit inside the tower. At the bottom create a free area for the water to shower down by using a brick or two.
*You'll need someone to drill a hole for the output pipe with a holesaw (usually used for drilling holes in doors). I found some holesaws matched the diameter of the pipe I used.
That's all. Green water, should dissappear within the week, followed by silly amounts of DOC (dissolved organic compounds) being formed, creating a load of foam on the pond. After that, it should settle and the pond should remain clear.
The other tower you could build include the large strawberry pot towers (which should be just as large as the external TT I think, and the one from Nevada Water Gardens, which are replicated alot on the message board on koivet. These other two are easiest to build, often with the pump at the very bottom in the pond or somewhere around there, pumping water up through the towers and allowing it to collide downwards back to the pond. Not ideal if you don't have prefiltration, unless you have a prefilter foam pad on the fountain pump.
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