Install Filtration Systems

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Giant Pond, Waterfall, Stream & Bridge-in just 12 hours ?!? It can be done.

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What happens here

The pond ecosystem includes both mechanical and biological filtration. The mechanical filter, a skimmer box covered by a fake stone, is positioned at the pond's edge. It contains a large basket to capture floating debris (leaves, twigs) and a filter mat to trap smaller particles. The biological filter, located upstream at the start of the waterfall, is a container filled with filter mats and bio-balls. Water from the mechanical filter is pumped to the biological filter, where beneficial bacteria colonize the filter media and break down dissolved wastes, returning clean, clear water to the pond via the waterfall.

Goal: Integrate mechanical and biological filters for water clarity and health.

Tools and materials

Bio-balls — Providing high surface area for beneficial bacteria growth in the biological filter
Biological Filter Container — Housing the biological filter media at the top of the waterfall
Fake Stone Cover — Concealing the skimmer box and blending it into the landscape
Filter Basket — Collecting larger debris within the skimmer box
Filter Mat — Trapping smaller debris in the mechanical filter and providing surface area for bacteria in the biological filter
Skimmer Box — Mechanical filtration to remove large debris from the water surface

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just rip it apart and reo it. All right. I want to talk technical and when I want to talk technical can't go to this. [laughter] All right. So, you're going to help us understand the filtration. Yeah. Of this. Okay. I think what's nice about the Aquacape ecosystem is how simple it actually is. People get intimidated with ponds thinking that they need bottom drains and they need bead filters and all this stuff. This isn't a theory we're going off of. This is a triedand-true method that we've been doing for over 25 years. And if it didn't work, believe me, we would do something different. But really, there's two parts to this system. There's a mechanical filter and a biological filter. The first thing I show you guys is the mechanical filter. All right. This is our skimmer box over here. And if you look right now, you can actually see this debris moving off the surface and all coming into this area here. We've got a fake stone on top, strong enough for anybody to stand on. But it's lightweight, so any homeowner can easily with one finger just pull this off inside and take this out cuz they're just doing something to try to remove some dust off of here. But you have your big basket. It's grabbing all of the all of the surface debris. Everything big that's in on the surface gets collected in this basket. To clean this, we pull this up, take it, shake it out. All the big debris gets caught in here. All the small stuff that gets through, all of these little things gets caught in a filter mat. And if I take this door, I can actually close this shut. And you'll see what I'm talking about. Cuz all that small stuff gets caught in here. You're going to clean this out probably once to every four or five times to shake this stuff out. The main reason for a mechanical filter is to remove all of the solids out of here. So the idea is by the time the water has moved through this basket, through the filter pad, and gotten to the pump, there's no more debris. So now it's moving clear debris free water. It sends the water then up to our biological filter. There's just a big container. Inside that container, which is also the starting point of our waterfall, is a series of filter mats and bio balls. So the water comes into the bottom, moves around in a swirl chamber, which allows the water to evenly move up through the filter mats. As it moves up through the filter mats, more and more bacteria gets seated in the filter mats and then moves up into the layer of bio balls where…

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