DIY Pond Filter

DIY Pond Filter | How To

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Hi Aquamigos! In this video I show you how to build a DIY pond filter. This is a double trashcan filter build which will be able to hold significantly more filter media than a single trashcan filter. My pond pump will pump water into one 32 gallon Brute trashcan, which will overflow into the second Brute trashcan, which will overflow into the pond. The goal of this build is to create a bigger and better filtration system to create the best possible environment for my butterfly koi, goldfish, and other pond fish.
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@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

I'm currently building my new in-ground pond! Make sure to subscribe if you would like to follow the progress! (Edit: I put links to the products I used in the description)

@ArkLord001 8 ай бұрын

You should take a look at Aquaponic swirl filter setups. It would give you a means to force debris to drop to the bottom of in the intake bucket with a bulkhead and valve you can periodically open to clean the settled debris from the bottom of your intake. It would help your filter stay cleaner, longer.

@wvkoi5675 3 ай бұрын

Someone get this man a Sawz-All

@Lwimmermastermetalart Жыл бұрын

Right idea but honestly you should have put a drain in the bottom for easy clean out. I would use a coarse media on the bottom followed by finer layers for you mechanical end ( first tank) second tank I’d use lava rock OR ceramic media for the bio. Put a radius or chamfer on your pipe ends and use something other than just soap to get your pipe through the seals. Also will help if you can heat the seals a bit. Warmer makes it easier . But like I said you are on the right track and it will do the job as well as a very expensive filter .

@CS-ec7gl Жыл бұрын

This should be the prevailing comment.

@elianazz 5 ай бұрын

ducks love a clean pond!

@baddogroadtrip 9 ай бұрын

Good stuff, thanks for posting.

@darienbalgobin9501 Жыл бұрын

This was amazing …good job!

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you Darien!

@albertoe.martinez7763 Жыл бұрын

Good setup, I suggest introducing air bubbles opposing the down flow of water within the pipes to keep the water from creating channels or paths and the nitrifying bacteria happy.

@djssquibbs3295 Жыл бұрын

I really needed this video today. tomorrow I start assembling an aquaponics system with Tilapia fish and plants. saludos desde Coata Rica :)

@RamseysDIYKoiPond Жыл бұрын

Great job on the filter mucker… thats going to work a treat 👍🐟⛩

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you buddy! 🙌

@PinkLilyGarden Жыл бұрын

Wow well done!

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙌

@philtucker1224 10 ай бұрын

Wow Tobias really looks like a young David Carradine!

@TobiasHolenstein 10 ай бұрын

I just looked him up haha, I kind of see it

@observer8838 9 ай бұрын

Neat job. To control the flow, add a valve and a mechanical prefilter both will help prevent overflow and the slower rate will help the bio to work by minimising your need to flush and clean.

@s.wesleygouzeh421 2 жыл бұрын

This is so smart and great I like your teaching its so simple.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it 🙌

@inksupplies Жыл бұрын

This is great. Ive just built something similar. Have you realised that when your pump turns off, the filter will syphon out of that input pipe and back down into your pond? Not nice when the filter is dirty. I had the same issue but drilling a 1/8 of an inch hole in the highest point of the input pipe (within the filter) creates an air break that stops the syphon and the barrel stays full - works a treat!

@hopestubbs2827 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hope! 🙌

@TomsBackyardChats Жыл бұрын

Helpful Video Thanks

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom! I'm glad it was helpful 🙌

@eamonnbutler3975 Жыл бұрын

I’m about to do something similar, so very helpful. Thank you. Eamonn

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I could help 🙌 Best of luck with your pond!

@googlecustomer4986 Жыл бұрын

Nice design

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙌

@TBizzell68 Жыл бұрын

I used three uniseals on my filter, two of them leaked quite a bit. Unfortunately I put the media in the filter before I tested it. Now I have to take it all apart get a new container and not use uniseals. Outstanding filter by the way.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

What you can do to help ensure that there are no leaks is put aquarium silicon around the uniseals

@dorgham22 Жыл бұрын

Thanks go on,,, good luck

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🙌

@philtucker1224 10 ай бұрын

For a non pressurised system all of the pipes can be of one diameter. The 4 inch pipes that Toby was using there are not a actually necessary. Also if this set-up is to also to provide gravity filtration for silt and sand an easy method of regular disposal (emptying of the bins) would be ideal, although I think Toby has a pre-pump renewable filter on this particular pond so maybe he won’t need to do that. Lastly if the system is prone to sub-zero winters then a heater will be needed to stop the system expanding and destroying itself.

@TobiasHolenstein 10 ай бұрын

I used 3" inch pipes here just to be sure. On the first trash can filter I built I had a 1" output and it wasn't big enough to keep up with the flow of my pump, so I added a second 1" output, so 2" all together and also a 3rd 1" overflow pipe just incase one of the other 2 got clogged. So I figured on this one I would go 3"

@Nedman59 2 жыл бұрын

To get a straight line around the pipe to cut to. Wrap a piece of paper tightly [not so tight you can't move it] around the pipe, square up the edges of the sheet of paper and move the edge of your paper to your mark on the pipe, then draw a line around the pipe.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip!

@ellbug89 2 жыл бұрын

Great job on that. Fresh water clams are locally found in many rivers and could also be used, they typically use fish as their reproductive host though, so consider putting them in a pond with fish.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've thought about getting some fresh water clams. How do they use the fish as reproductive hosts? I didn't know that

@ellbug89 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein The larva of the clams will hang out on the gills of some fish species, typically they choose one species and use that for a portion of their life cycle. So not necessarily to reproduce but to mature. Most if not all freshwater clams require a fish host for a certain portion of their life cycle. If you get adult clams they will reproduce, but for the babies to grow up they need a fish host.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

@@ellbug89 Wow I didn't know that. Do you know if this is harmful for the fish?

@ellbug89 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein as with most definitive parasites; they will never kill their host, but rather they usually give the host a small advantage while stealing a small metabolic reward. This is in contrast to an accidental host, which can be lethal; consider the boy who ate a raw slug and had a rat lungworm infect his brain. So in short, no I don`t think it would be an issue.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

@@ellbug89 Ok got it, thanks for letting me know about this!

@GingerFishyOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

You smashed that fam!!! Looks like its working awesome!! I’m looking at doing something similar for my pond… I think the hard thing is getting the right size pump to the right size inlets and outlets, so it all flows properly… that’s what im struggling with anyway!! You could always go sponge in the first bin and and lava rock in the second, that way you’d probably be able to polish the water a bit more, and at the same time keep the lava rock in the 2nd bin from getting covered in debris/ clogging up. Anyway, nice one bro, enjoyable video as always!!! 😎

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much man! I think if you just get the same sized inlet as the output from your pond pump, you should be good, but then for the output, make sure that the output is either much bigger than your inlet or have multiple outputs, or else it might cause your filter to overflow. Thanks for the suggestion! I may do some sponges in the first filter like you said. I also have quite a bit of left over filter pads that I can also use. Thanks for watching and good luck with your pond 🙂

@mista2621 Жыл бұрын

Put a tap on your intake pipe so you can control the inward flow from the pump . Partially close the tap till you get your required flow

@dexsusa6893 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing .

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 🙌

@dandantv4098 Жыл бұрын

Thank you new friend

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 🙌

@ChrisShortyAllen 2 күн бұрын

Needs a breather and valve to prevent back siphon if pump stops

@ReelTimeCapt Жыл бұрын

Lava rocks work great. Nice vid and thx. Add a UV lights on the input side and your system will be evern better. Thx

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thank you! and I like your UV light idea. I think I might do that

@progressivepondkeeping 2 жыл бұрын

Nice build bro 👌👍 I would have the first bin as mechanical and the second as bio

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's a good idea, I'll definitely add in some mechanical filtration in addition to the bio

@progressivepondkeeping 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein awesome 👌

@joesiever4844 Жыл бұрын

To fit the pipe to the uni seal, you can heat up the end of the pipe and press immediately it to the inside of a round object like the inner of a bowl. You will get a slight round end of pipe. Easier to fit into the uniseal

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip Joe! I'll remember that for next time

@philtucker1224 10 ай бұрын

Risky (melting distortion) - but nice idea nevertheless.

@JohnSmith-cy9tt Жыл бұрын

Greate video and thups up on this one Bro ....but a tip from Sweden . use a 3 or 4 inch hose betwene them to filters.. more easy to level them and also its easy to dissmount if neaded..we got squared traxhcans here in Sweden - and on weels with foldable lid..pritty nice for a DIY filter but impossible to move if you cant dissconect them due to kleaning Keep the spirit up - pondlife is so amazing

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I like your idea for using a hose. Maybe I will do that

@YANKTHATCAMEL 2 жыл бұрын

Pb blaster makes those pipes slide in like butter with the uni seal . Would definitely be careful using and cleaning after but saves a lot of time.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I've never heard about that stuff before. I'll check it out 👍

@MrMelvinheimer 2 жыл бұрын

I use silicone spray. It dries up after a while and all of the solvent evaporates.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrMelvinheimer Thanks for the tip, maybe I'll try that next time

@Deadward1113 11 ай бұрын

Sweet name

@TobiasHolenstein 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙌

@avishaynundoo1223 2 жыл бұрын

That's really nice I made a mistake in mine where I used only 1 bucket comprising both the mechanical and biological filtration. So when I do the filter clean up I lose much beneficial bacteria turning my pond green post cleaning.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Sorry to hear that, If you can, try to only clean out only the mechanical or only the biological filtration at any given time and make sure to use water from the pond to clean them. That way hopefully not too much of the beneficial bacteria will get lost

@dax6604 Жыл бұрын

I don’t know much about filters but the pipe that transfers water between cans seems like a very good spot for some sort of filtration maybe mesh or something idk

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

I probably wouldn't put the mesh inside the pipes, just incase it somehow causes a clog over time, but I was actually recently thinking of putting some K1 filter media inside one of the bins, and if I do that I would probably add some kind of egg crate or something with larger holes across the upper inside part of the trash can at an angle to prevent the filter media from going through the pipe

@miqdadabdulhalim Жыл бұрын

Instead of putting the elbow in the 2nd chamber, which uses space, I'd prefer to put the elbow on the outside, then join the pipe to the 2nd chamber from the bottom with another elbow. That way your bio media can fill up the whole 2nd chamber. Alternatively, since the 2nd chamber will be placed lower than the first chamber, you only need to drill a hole on the 1st chamber. The pipe coming out from the 1st chamber would be at the top of the 2nd chamber. That way water could fill up the 1st chamber entirely. Combine them together, and your chambers can be maximized for the filter media

@observer8838 9 ай бұрын

Good advice.

@TeyLupet 2 жыл бұрын

Watching while on work haha :D #IAmAnAquaMigo

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Joshua! 🙌

@mirkomontemaggi9533 Ай бұрын

Hi Where can i buy round gasket for 90mm tubes like in your video?

@elidelsoon 8 ай бұрын

What type of glue did you use to fix the pvc pipe and the rubber?

@9catlover Ай бұрын

i am building a similar one. i built one bog filter and realise it's too small so need to attach another now

@bobrobertsNotUrBob 9 ай бұрын

what size pump were you using?

@yourqualia6341 Жыл бұрын

Does it work with MIDI keyboard and headphones at the same time?

@wvkoi5675 3 ай бұрын

Sand. Sand builds up its own ecosystem rich in biodiversity and minimizes harmful bacteria and parasites and does a GREAT job of building up an anoxic layer that handles nitrates.

@GreymsView-ix8yi 5 ай бұрын

Great video my friend - I subscribed. I also make my own filters and it is surprising how close we are together on the whole video.

@marleonmeh7813 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great. I just have a question. I don’t understand why the water coming in has to go to the bottom of the tub rather than coming in at the top, running through the media and then exiting at the bottom? This might be a stupid question but I want to build a filter and I’m puzzled by this. Thank you!!

@MrMelvinheimer 2 жыл бұрын

Usually this is done to make sure the water flows through the media easily. If you try to do a top-down approach, it gets clogged and over flows out of the filter instead of back into the pond. You also get more water flowing throughout the entire system instead of just one path of least resistance.

@eddycoronado8381 Жыл бұрын

👍😊

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

🙌

@hamdanali533 Жыл бұрын

I think you should put a UV light in the basket. You can do it easily as your water flow will be higher.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

That's true, I might do it if I have issues with green water

@gibran_bonsai Жыл бұрын

Lanjutkan

@raisinggoldfishonabudget7058 2 жыл бұрын

Sponge's collect the junk from the pond & you HAVE to take them out every so often to clean them out cause if you don't they will clog & not work keeping the pond clean & in stead of a net over the pond put a SHADE CLOTH on it to block most the sun will help a WHOLE LOT BETTER & do water changes helps a lot as well & don't feed them as much helps.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I may throw in some sponges into the filter and some filter media. I'll look into the shade cloth when we get near the summer 🙂

@vertigoone-one-722 2 жыл бұрын

Great buddy, just know that the hose is not the same gallons per minute as pump. To be sure everything follows as it should I would do a test run with the pump you have. When you do a clean out of the filter you have now, connect your pump to the new ones and let it run for a while. Best would be to let it run for a while on the new pool pond to see if in a few days it stil keeps up with the flow. Looks good if you ask me

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Yeah I kind of accounted for the flow of my pump when choosing the 3" pipe. On my old trashcan filter I have a total of 2" of output (2 x 1" pipes, I also have another 1" overflow pipe just incase of a clog) so I'm pretty sure it should be fine, but yeah I will test it just to be safe. If I have to, I'll make another overflow pipe on the new filter. Next week I'm hoping to transfer my fish to the new pool pond 🙂

@vertigoone-one-722 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein awesome, transfer day is comming up. Good luck with the catch, you might need some bigger traps for the smaller fish, a jug or 2 should do the trick

@hsimp316 2 ай бұрын

Do you plan on adding a uv light to help keep the water clear?

@TobiasHolenstein 2 ай бұрын

I had one for about a year or so, by the brand Jebao, and it ended up breaking and I just never got a new one

@Sam-qh1sh Жыл бұрын

I like this filter idea, but how do you clean them out without a drain point?

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

I just remove the bags of lava rocks and then I hose out the inside of the trashcan and then use a pump to pump out the water. Having a drain would definitely make things either though if you want to install one

@eggracer1 7 ай бұрын

You said you needed a 3 inch pvc pipe for a 4 inch uniseals? Does that apply to all sizes?

@TobiasHolenstein 7 ай бұрын

Do you mean the hole saw? For the 3" uniseal (which is for a 3" pipe) you need a 4" hole saw, but for different sizes of uniseals the hole saw size will be different. You can see on the site where you buy them, whether it's Amazon or Bulk Reef Supply or another website, it will tell you the size of the hole saw you need for each size of uniseal. Each size will need a different size hole saw

@elianazz 5 ай бұрын

i have 8 ducks,and i need to figure out to keep thier 2 pools clean!

@BigDaddyBoxy Жыл бұрын

made this WAY more difficult than it needed to be.

@AMysteryGhost 2 жыл бұрын

LETS GOOO I got a new desk mount for my maono au-pm 421. Remember I broke the last one

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Which desk mount did you go with?

@AMysteryGhost 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein just a regular one. Not name brand

@modithak Жыл бұрын

Can't we have the intake from the pond at the bottom of the barrel and let the out flow to the pond from the top? what problems will it have?

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

You could, I did that in my old trash can filter, but the problem I ran into is that after a while the seal started to leak.

@teresacheney6066 Жыл бұрын

Where do you get the uni seals from?

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Amazon has some of the sizes and if you can't find the ones you want there, bulkreefsupply also sells them

@boots7859 Жыл бұрын

Its been a number of years since I got out of reef aquaria, however this looks kinda weak. I've got a 50' pond, and was hoping to see something. This looks like just some live rock in trash cans? I know skimmers aren't as efficient in fresh water, however they can still remove a lot of crap for a small investment. Also, as someone mentioned, some sort of counter-current air entrainment would be useful in oxygenating the water. Make one of the cans a refugium of sorts with LED lights would also condition the water. Add an extra bucket and make it a FWDSB. This just seems to be moving water around.

@muddygupps4330 2 жыл бұрын

💪👏👏👏

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

🙌 🙌

@philtucker1224 10 ай бұрын

Hi Tobias do you have to cope with sub zero winters?

@TobiasHolenstein 10 ай бұрын

Luckily no, I live in southern California so the coldest it gets here is probably around 40º F

@philtucker1224 10 ай бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein That’s good, I’m near London U.K. it doesn’t get too cold but the odd -3 c can happen and we don’t get too see the fish for a few weeks.

@TobiasHolenstein 10 ай бұрын

@@philtucker1224 Ah yes they won't be too active at that temp

@keeponkeepingon4357 8 ай бұрын

Could those diy filters handel a 1 acre sized diy pond. ?

@TobiasHolenstein 8 ай бұрын

Definitely not a filter this size. I'm not 100% sure how you would go about filtering a pond of that size, but my advice would be to get a water testing kit, like the API master test kit, and see where your water parameters sit and then decide if you need some kind of filtration, because If it is a naturally occurring pond where there is no pond liner and the water is flowing through the pond, the nitrogen cycle may be occurring naturally in the pond.

@skeggy 2 жыл бұрын

My question is how are you going to clean it without stripping it all down looking at your other filter there is a heck of a lot of muck collected in there

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

It shouldn't be too bad. When I moved my old trash can filter over to my new pool pond it only took a few minutes to remove all the bags of lava rocks from the filter

@skeggy 2 жыл бұрын

@@TobiasHolenstein I would be putting some form of easy clean mechanical filtration in the first bin and then the lava rock in the second you want to keep that lava rock as clean as possible . Maybe a static bed of something like k1 or k3 in the first barrel literally a foot deep and then all you'll have to do is either boil it up with air or swirl it round for 10 mins and drain .. this will stop the lava rock from clogging up with debris

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips I'll look into that K1/K3

@2zzlift989 10 ай бұрын

Where you get the pump?

@TobiasHolenstein 10 ай бұрын

On Amazon, I just put the link in the description. I have the 1100 gph one

@akirimau Жыл бұрын

I did exactly the same thing but I put layers of filtering material. A small outlet pipe ( 1inch dia) at the base of each bucket to flush out excessive flocks overtime will be essential.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Nice! I am in the process of building my in ground pond at the moment, and I'm planning on doing a gravity fed bottom drain, so there will be some mechanical filtration before the water hits the pump, then the pump will pump the water through this bio filter system. I've thought about making an outlet pipe, but I'm a little nervous of getting a leak. Do you have any advice for what materials to use and did you ever experience a leak?

@janvanrijswijk9488 Жыл бұрын

En how do you clean your filter ? There is no drain .......

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

You can put a drain on if you want. I personally didn't because I was worried about the possibility of it leaking. It won't be too difficult to remove the bags of lava rocks and pump the water out

@davidmeare6299 10 ай бұрын

Fitting pipes into connectors doesn’t have to be so difficult. The problem arises because the outside diameter of the pipe being inserted, is the same as the inside diameter of the connector it is being fitted into. If the outside diameter of the pipe being inserted were less than the inside diameter of connector, then it wouldn’t be a problem, it would fit in. If just a very short length of the outside leading edge of the pipe is shaved back (chamfered) to make the pipe outside diameter just a bit smaller, then the pipe can be easily located in the lip of the connector. When lubricated (I use spray silicone lubricant) it should then push fit without much effort. The shaved back portion is so small it has no effect on the quality of the seal.

@joemason9187 Жыл бұрын

Put some washing up liquid on the joints they will slide on better

@slamboy66 Жыл бұрын

Dish soap? I use petroleum jelly, no rinsing.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Dish soap was pretty much the only thing I had at the time

@toddcarey5765 Жыл бұрын

Always debure your cuts for all things. Huge saver

@juliorivera870 24 күн бұрын

I don't understand why you have one drum up & one down, I don't think you have to do that, the water will drain down either way

@donalddouglas5661 Жыл бұрын

Take a look at a media called " Bio Home. "

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check that out

@operationhotshotinc.6887 Жыл бұрын

Why 3” ABS?

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

You can use PVC if you want, but I think the ABS was cheaper and that's why I went with it. The reason I chose 3" is just because I knew my input was going to be 1" and I wanted to make sure my output was bigger than my input

@HansonFishFeeds 6 ай бұрын

Please, what's the essence of this? I really don't understand.

@jeffsomebody6463 9 ай бұрын

why 2 garbage cans when one will work ?

@TobiasHolenstein 9 ай бұрын

It's so you can house more bio media than just one trash can

@pablocolon649 Жыл бұрын

Can make ono

@pablocolon649 Жыл бұрын

Bi ball

@ronkegley6591 Жыл бұрын

Cool, but that's not a T at the bottom.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

Thanks! What do you call those things? It's like almost a T I guess

@johntexan4165 10 ай бұрын

Lava rock is a fraction of the cost of bio balls…

@MiyamotoMusashi9 Жыл бұрын

Wonder how many brands and stores i will avoid due to 3 minute ads on KZfaq

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

On this video? There shouldn't be any 3 min ads and all of them should be skip-able

@globalventures3355 2 жыл бұрын

You never explain how this filters the water. I just see a lot of water going into pipes and trash cans.

@TobiasHolenstein 2 жыл бұрын

So in short, the trash cans are what will house the bio media, which for me is probably going to mostly be lava rocks. Are you familiar with the nitrogen cycle? If not, I would suggest first checking out some videos on what the nitrogen cycle is in a pond or aquarium and that will give you a pretty good idea of what's going on here. But just to summarize it quickly, with a pond filter or aquarium filter, the goal is to convert ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate

@wardraven8755 Жыл бұрын

You need mechanical filtration befor bio filtration otherwise your bio filter media is acting as mechanical instead.

@TobiasHolenstein Жыл бұрын

I'm in the middle of my new pond build and I'm planning on doing a gravity fed bottom drain, so I'll have a separate container with mechanical filtration before the water hits the pump. I have this video where I kind of drew out the plan if you want to check it out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftqEbNeVpsfIXYk.html

@RMS-gl6wl 11 ай бұрын

Bevel the pipe next time

@TobiasHolenstein 11 ай бұрын

Oh ok like the return pipe? or which one?

@rwags6848 5 ай бұрын

Good design… Stage 2… hide it so it’s not viewable.

@dontbea7237 7 ай бұрын

I would have at least a 6-inch layer of polyfill the quilted s*** this way it doesn't split apart and put a bunch of cotton in your aquarium or pond as this works the best at polishing water is extremely cheap and highly effective

@TobiasHolenstein 7 ай бұрын

I will look into that. I definitely want to beef up my mechanical filtration

@dontbea7237 7 ай бұрын

Yeah they have the loose batting which is more so for pillows you want the quilted s***pretty much for sewing blankets and and comforters not sure which state or country you're from but here in Florida I buy it at Walmart on a roll in the back by all the fabric and Craft section you get I believe something like twenty yards or something like that for 13 bucks the brand is polyfill

@TobiasHolenstein 7 ай бұрын

@@dontbea7237 Thank you for the info!