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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.
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!
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 .
Sponges going from 10, 15, 20, 30, ppi would be effective as mechanical filtration but a pain in the ass to clean out. Personally, I would choose a finer sinking plastic media in the first section and then pumice in the second one. And drains... Or
@@OriginalMindTrick yes you are quite correct ! Since my comment on this a year ago I’ve learned something new that I really love. Forget all about filter sponges completely. My pond has too big of a fish load because I had babies I NEVER expected. I couldn’t just get rid of them so I needed to beef up my filtration. First I tried adding a pre filter pressure filter before my bio falls which contained a coarse pad and my bag of bio media. ( also found the K1 is the best stuff to use) . This helped a little but still a real pain to clean. Backwashing the pressure filter was pretty easy but when it gets beyond doing that several times you need to pull it apart and seriously clean the sponges. Well that alone was a REAL pain in the ass do to the design. So then I watched several videos on sieve filters. WOW what a game changer. I fabricated my own for less than $75.00 simple design. All the water is pumped into the top outlet which is made from PVC pipe with a slot cut in to make the water flow in a wide nice stream. This flows onto a frame made from 3/4 PVC tube covered with a 300 mesh stainless screen. The screen is set at an angle and goes into a 3 inch fabricated PVC pipe trap. A bulkhead fitting on the end and a valve outside. Simply turn the valve to wash out all the muck build up. Amazing to see just how much there is in a week’s time. Now in the center at just the right height there is the outlet. This runs by gravity to my bio falls. In there I simply use a few layers of polly fill batting. This will do the final removal of fine stuff. Pull it out ,wring it out over plants. Natures best fertilizer! Then simply throw away. On top of the batting I have a bag of activated charcoal. In the bottom of the container I filled it with K1. I also had a UV light from another skimmer I wasn’t using and put that in as well. I’m still testing to see if that is really needed or not to be honest. Now with that simple unit my water is crystal clear with maybe 3 min to clean. I’m thrilled. Now depending on the layout of your pond this may not work. I pump from a skimmer into this set up and then it’s gravity fed from there. Another really great thing I’ve discovered is filter brushes. A friend of mine has a box skimmer and only a row of brushes. Her water is crystal clear as well, however she only has a few fish. Fish load with Koi determines just what you’ll need for filtration. There’s so much information on RUclips it can drive you nuts. Ppl may say I’m wrong ……but I know for a fact that my system WORKS! I hope that may help anyone watching and reading this. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
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.
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.
I do a smaller filter setup with only one bucket. I use rain gutter leaf filters bio balls and regular filter media stacked…I do a full clean out once a month in the spring and summer. I have turtles three medium koi and goldfish in an 1100 gallon pond . I’m building a new pond in the spring.
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.
UniSeal FTW every time. Mine never leak on rounded Bulkheads. Lately I have been experimenting with HDPE 4" pipe with good results. Using 3M90 for friction fits in wet time-of-application.
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!!! 😎
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 🙂
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.
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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!!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
@@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
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
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 🙂
@@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
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
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.
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.
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?
Air Vent Filters 20''x90'', High Air Flow For a better filtration use this & cut an 8" length off & rope ot up to fit into your inlet/outlet pipe. The tighter you can make the roll, the better the filtration.
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.
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.
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
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
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 ruclips.net/video/HtT9tdAad-U/видео.html
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
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
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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)
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.
Did you do it?
Someone get this man a Sawz-All
And a haircut
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!
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 .
This should be the prevailing comment.
Sponges going from 10, 15, 20, 30, ppi would be effective as mechanical filtration but a pain in the ass to clean out.
Personally, I would choose a finer sinking plastic media in the first section and then pumice in the second one.
And drains...
Or
@@OriginalMindTrick yes you are quite correct ! Since my comment on this a year ago I’ve learned something new that I really love. Forget all about filter sponges completely. My pond has too big of a fish load because I had babies I NEVER expected. I couldn’t just get rid of them so I needed to beef up my filtration. First I tried adding a pre filter pressure filter before my bio falls which contained a coarse pad and my bag of bio media. ( also found the K1 is the best stuff to use) . This helped a little but still a real pain to clean. Backwashing the pressure filter was pretty easy but when it gets beyond doing that several times you need to pull it apart and seriously clean the sponges. Well that alone was a REAL pain in the ass do to the design. So then I watched several videos on sieve filters. WOW what a game changer. I fabricated my own for less than $75.00 simple design. All the water is pumped into the top outlet which is made from PVC pipe with a slot cut in to make the water flow in a wide nice stream. This flows onto a frame made from 3/4 PVC tube covered with a 300 mesh stainless screen. The screen is set at an angle and goes into a 3 inch fabricated PVC pipe trap. A bulkhead fitting on the end and a valve outside. Simply turn the valve to wash out all the muck build up. Amazing to see just how much there is in a week’s time. Now in the center at just the right height there is the outlet. This runs by gravity to my bio falls. In there I simply use a few layers of polly fill batting. This will do the final removal of fine stuff. Pull it out ,wring it out over plants. Natures best fertilizer! Then simply throw away. On top of the batting I have a bag of activated charcoal. In the bottom of the container I filled it with K1. I also had a UV light from another skimmer I wasn’t using and put that in as well. I’m still testing to see if that is really needed or not to be honest. Now with that simple unit my water is crystal clear with maybe 3 min to clean. I’m thrilled. Now depending on the layout of your pond this may not work. I pump from a skimmer into this set up and then it’s gravity fed from there. Another really great thing I’ve discovered is filter brushes. A friend of mine has a box skimmer and only a row of brushes. Her water is crystal clear as well, however she only has a few fish. Fish load with Koi determines just what you’ll need for filtration. There’s so much information on RUclips it can drive you nuts. Ppl may say I’m wrong ……but I know for a fact that my system WORKS! I hope that may help anyone watching and reading this. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Outstanding work, great idea with the lava rock!
I really needed this video today. tomorrow I start assembling an aquaponics system with Tilapia fish and plants. saludos desde Coata Rica :)
This is so smart and great I like your teaching its so simple.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it 🙌
one trash can have mesh bags and bio ball lava rocks, whats the other medium in the other trash can?
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.
I would suggest fitting a bottom drain for easy maintenance of the filter.
What pump did you use? I'm going to look at your other videos too. I'm trying to get a good filter for my duck pond and this looks great! Thank you!
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.
I do a smaller filter setup with only one bucket. I use rain gutter leaf filters bio balls and regular filter media stacked…I do a full clean out once a month in the spring and summer. I have turtles three medium koi and goldfish in an 1100 gallon pond . I’m building a new pond in the spring.
What type of glue did you use to fix the pvc pipe and the rubber?
Hi
Where can i buy round gasket for 90mm tubes like in your video?
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.
What you can do to help ensure that there are no leaks is put aquarium silicon around the uniseals
UniSeal FTW every time. Mine never leak on rounded Bulkheads. Lately I have been experimenting with HDPE 4" pipe with good results. Using 3M90 for friction fits in wet time-of-application.
Does it work with MIDI keyboard and headphones at the same time?
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!!! 😎
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 🙂
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
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.
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"
ducks love a clean pond!
Do you plan on adding a uv light to help keep the water clear?
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
I’m about to do something similar, so very helpful. Thank you. Eamonn
I'm glad I could help 🙌 Best of luck with your pond!
I like this filter idea, but how do you clean them out without a drain point?
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
what size pump were you using?
This was amazing …good job!
Thank you Darien!
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?
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.
Wow Tobias really looks like a young David Carradine!
I just looked him up haha, I kind of see it
Hopefully you meet your maker in a more dignified manner :D
You said you needed a 3 inch pvc pipe for a 4 inch uniseals?
Does that apply to all sizes?
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
Where you get the pump?
On Amazon, I just put the link in the description. I have the 1100 gph one
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
Thanks for the tip Joe! I'll remember that for next time
Risky (melting distortion) - but nice idea nevertheless.
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
Thanks for the tip! I like your idea for using a hose. Maybe I will do that
Good job 👍👍👍👍
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
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
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.
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
@@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.
@@ellbug89 Wow I didn't know that. Do you know if this is harmful for the fish?
@@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.
@@ellbug89 Ok got it, thanks for letting me know about this!
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.
Thank you for the tip!
Hi Tobias do you have to cope with sub zero winters?
Luckily no, I live in southern California so the coldest it gets here is probably around 40º F
@@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.
@@philtucker1224 Ah yes they won't be too active at that temp
Great job on the filter mucker… thats going to work a treat 👍🐟⛩
Thank you buddy! 🙌
Good stuff, thanks for posting.
Lava rocks work great. Nice vid and thx. Add a UV lights on the input side and your system will be evern better. Thx
Thank you! and I like your UV light idea. I think I might do that
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.
Awesome, I've never heard about that stuff before. I'll check it out 👍
I use silicone spray. It dries up after a while and all of the solvent evaporates.
@@MrMelvinheimer Thanks for the tip, maybe I'll try that next time
Could those diy filters handel a 1 acre sized diy pond. ?
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.
i am building a similar one. i built one bog filter and realise it's too small so need to attach another now
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!!
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.
Thanks
En how do you clean your filter ? There is no drain .......
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
Nice build bro 👌👍
I would have the first bin as mechanical and the second as bio
Thank you! That's a good idea, I'll definitely add in some mechanical filtration in addition to the bio
@@TobiasHolenstein awesome 👌
What size pump?
Where do you get the uni seals from?
Amazon has some of the sizes and if you can't find the ones you want there, bulkreefsupply also sells them
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.
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
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
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
@@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
Thanks for the tips I'll look into that K1/K3
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
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 🙂
@@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
Wow well done!
Thank you! 🙌
Dish soap? I use petroleum jelly, no rinsing.
Dish soap was pretty much the only thing I had at the time
Thanks go on,,, good luck
Thanks! 🙌
i have 8 ducks,and i need to figure out to keep thier 2 pools clean!
Needs a breather and valve to prevent back siphon if pump stops
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
Good advice.
Nice design
Thank you 🙌
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.
I think you should put a UV light in the basket. You can do it easily as your water flow will be higher.
That's true, I might do it if I have issues with green water
Helpful Video Thanks
Thanks Tom! I'm glad it was helpful 🙌
I would use bulkhead connections
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.
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?
If u make hold to blue drum inside n put the pipe for waste. Its better
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For a better filtration use this & cut an 8" length off & rope ot up to fit into your inlet/outlet pipe.
The tighter you can make the roll, the better the filtration.
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.
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.
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 🙂
Thanks for sharing .
You're welcome 🙌
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.
Thank you new friend
You're welcome 🙌
Awesome
Thank you Hope! 🙌
Put a T on your output and cut slits to make a better waterfall effect
Why 3” ABS?
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
put some vaseline on it if it's hard to slide the pipe in
Sweet name
Thank you! 🙌
why 2 garbage cans when one will work ?
It's so you can house more bio media than just one trash can
LETS GOOO I got a new desk mount for my maono au-pm 421. Remember I broke the last one
That's awesome! Which desk mount did you go with?
@@TobiasHolenstein just a regular one. Not name brand
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Put some washing up liquid on the joints they will slide on better
Please, what's the essence of this? I really don't understand.
Watching while on work haha :D #IAmAnAquaMigo
Thank you for watching Joshua! 🙌
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
made this WAY more difficult than it needed to be.
Wonder how many brands and stores i will avoid due to 3 minute ads on RUclips
On this video? There shouldn't be any 3 min ads and all of them should be skip-able
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Always debure your cuts for all things. Huge saver
Cool, but that's not a T at the bottom.
Thanks! What do you call those things? It's like almost a T I guess
Can make ono
Take a look at a media called " Bio Home. "
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check that out
You never explain how this filters the water. I just see a lot of water going into pipes and trash cans.
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
You need mechanical filtration befor bio filtration otherwise your bio filter media is acting as mechanical instead.
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 ruclips.net/video/HtT9tdAad-U/видео.html
Lava rock is a fraction of the cost of bio balls…
Bevel the pipe next time
Oh ok like the return pipe? or which one?
Bi ball
Good design…
Stage 2… hide it so it’s not viewable.
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
I will look into that. I definitely want to beef up my mechanical filtration
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
@@dontbea7237 Thank you for the info!