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A Green Environment for Less Money: Building a Pond Filter
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What type of a filter do you need for your water garden pond? What size does it need to be, and how clean does your small water world need to be kept? These are questions to ask yourself when you create a water garden in your yard. It isn’t just a matter of putting in a liner and a pump, and sitting back to look at your little pond. You want green plants and probably fish to flourish in the little habitat you’re creating to make it both beautiful and inviting. Never think of what you’re building as merely a hole in your back yard, but understand it for what it is – an eco-system. Putting in a pond filter will assist you in keeping your system clean, and it won’t cost you nearly as much as it would to purchase commercial filters.
You need to initiate the project by measuring the size of the pond. You can make use of a rope for this purpose. You must know how much area you will be required to filter so that you be sure your filter will be able to handle the job. One way you can decrease the need for filtering is by adding waterfalls and streams to your system. These will help move the water around naturally through the system as well as force it through the filters. A water garden is in reality a delicately-balanced system that must have all of its component parts in order to maintain the health of the plants and animals inhabiting it. You must have a way to eliminate the impurities that can damage the environment and encourage the generation of good bacteria that rid the pond of fish waste and organic materials.
There are two kinds of filters you can use to help you develop the ideal pond environment. A mechanical filter will collect debris and contaminants. A bacterial filter, on the other hand, will break contaminants down into forms that the plants and fish can use. To build your own filter, you can start with nothing but a big plastic pot, mesh bags, large lava rocks, and a submersible pond pump. Fill the mesh bags with lava rocks, taking care not to overfill them. Sit the pump in the bottom of your plastic container, run the tubing and cords, stick the lava rocks in the container, and you’ll have a basic but effective pond filter.
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