avz10
Koi Lover
May 5, 2008, 4:48 PM
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Adding water plants to my filter system(s)
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I have quite a complicated system, that works relatively well. The system has two components, a high pressure and a low pressure system.
The low pressure system works like this: It has a submersible pump, pumping water to a filter box 
and back into the pond.
 (to the left of the picture)
I thought of adding a container with hyacynths that I got at a dam yesterday.
 
The water will enter the container, flow through and out into the sump.
The outflow from the container, I suppose need to be a few centimeters from the bottom. I thought to put the container to the left of the sump.
My questions, will it make any difference? I sometimes do get a low nitrite reading.
2. Should it be a top to bottom flow
3. If I clean the plants with PP, will that be enough
4. Is it best to let the water go back into the sump, or directly in the pond (an extra bit of water in the sump will actually help, as the water level in the second chamber sometimes dips) 5. What about the plants either in the second chamber or directly in the pond?
I attach a drawing of my high pressure system:
From pond: Top drain to bottom of sump, through filter media, through swimming pool filter, through sand filter through UV light through high pressure biofilter, back into pond via venturi and waterfall. There is also a bottom pipe draining directly to the sand filter...Complicated!!
My high pressure system:
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