The ONLY thing you NEED for a CRYSTAL CLEAR POND
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
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My offering to the algorithm gods, this is wonderful and helpful content 😊🙏
The alter of the algorithm thanks you 😊👍
A person who knows what he's talking about. Most aquarium edutubers just give instructions, but not explain the science behind it. This is a good channel. Subscribing...
Hi Kev the bog filter is still going strong almost 2years now and have nearly 30 koi and 2 sturgeon and never have a issue was the best decision I ever made and watching you videos on how to construct one was so easy 👍 good to see your at nearly 50k in subs 👍
I’m so happy mate. This is what makes it worthwhile. I love when people reach out and tell me that the videos helped them in their pond journey. Thanks for all your support over the years 🍻👍
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How much liters is your pond?
Just being Curious 😄
Can you paste the link to create filter?
@@benjaminwillems8839 16000Lt including filtration I do still run a EA nexus 220 for mechanical filtration with a uv off a bottom drain and the bog runs off my skimmer line.
Very clear way to explain what aquarium gear sellers try to NEVER explain to people. thank you for sharing!
My pleasure👍
I was skeptical when I saw the headline that this was going to be an ad. But instead it was excellent advice. Thank you!
I swapped the sponges in my filter barrel for 3 sizes of rocks and I'm absolutely amazed at how clear the water is now. I first found one of your video's a couple of years ago so it took me a while but worked a treat. Thanks Kev.
Well done 👍
As a biologist, it is delightful to see a RUclipsr that understands pond ecology and is giving actual good advice ❤. It is exhausting seeing over manufactured artificial plastic systems being pushed while sitting on the sidelines jumping up and down yelling "adjust you ecological balance with micro habitat zones and well selected maintenance organisms!"in my head. "Noooo, not a giant empty drum with a plastic box in it ... No, no why are you cleaning the filter weekly, what are you doing?!" Lol.
@darcieclements4880 Hello,Darcie. Having the day off, I was grazing the internet and just found this. A water feature has been on my bucket list for a while, and I may be able to do this soon. Having kept planted fish tanks and some success with raising some fry, I am aware of a bit of this biological process. I found a book several years ago called Dynamic Aquaria. It was mind-boggling to verify the complexities of nature. Anyway,I had a lace plant seed and sprout over 90 plants. I have never been able to reproduce that. If you have any suggestions as to where I might find some information, I would appreciate that. Thanks.
Good tip
I'm glad I found your channel years ago. The detailed breakdowns and instructions were super helpful. I was able to build a bog filter in 2021 that was 6feet x 3feet and 3 feet deep. It flows out through a wide stream and is an absolute powerhouse of a filter that I only need to clean out twice a year. My pond water is always crystal clear, all the fish are healthier, and tons of native frogs populate the bog during springtime and breed in its shallow waters.
That’s so cool to hear 👍
Thank you so much, Kev. I’ve just discovered you & although I have a small pond system, it wasn’t working well. I’ve been scratching to find a solution Brilliant, now I know which way to go. So grateful for your generous sharing of I formation. Torquay/Vic.
Hi Kev, what a great video! I used to have a 1000 gallon pond, installed by an Aquascapes dealer here in the USA. I was grateful for his knowledge and patience those first couple of years. I miss having a pond, and am so encouraged by your videos as a resource to ensure proper set up and maintenance. I found that a pond is an investment in mental health as well as the environment of creatures it serves. And yes, it is all about that biological filter. Now that I am older (old), I know I would be more patient and enjoy the process more than when I was younger. Thank you for sharing your in depth knowledge of ponds, you are spot on with your information.
I hope you get to enjoy a pond once again. 🤞
Thanks matey. Clear, concise and with the ability to diy. Very much appreciated.❤
Thanks great info I had never heard before. Usually it is someone showing you what you need to buy.
I am planning to make a pond for my 3 year old, thinking of making 2 parts one for 5-6 fishes and another for him to play inside , thank you for all your support ❤
I’m sure you’ll create something awesome 👍
I am sorry to put this out there, but 3 year olds and water sources greater than 30 centimeters don't mix well. Ask me how I know. I am a retired pediatric respiratory therapist, and you can't believe the amount of drownings and near drownings of toddlers that occur around shallow bodies of water. Like I said, I am not trying to be some know it all, but the reason I never had children was because of a 3 year old little girl that suffered a near drowning event. I knew I could never live through that trauma. Maybe a pond-less waterfall and stream would be good entertainment until your toddler is older, that can be converted into a fish pond. Small shallow "pools" can grow pollywogs to watch, snails, and some water bugs. Ok, I'm done. Thank you for taking it under advisement. God bless you.❤
@@RTiff thanks for concerns dear, I respect it
Commenting so the matrix puts the video infront of more people, superb video as always chap. Soon I will have all the fittings to make my mk2 bog filter, my test bog filter made the world of difference - thanks to you and your channel.
Legend! Can’t wait to hear how the improved model goes 👍
This video, a rain barrel and some stone is transformational and will be a turning point for new ponders like me.
Thank you. It is such a wonderful video and your pond is truly so clear! I don’t have a pond and I wasn’t even interested but YT recommended your video. I’m happy I watched it. Your voice and explanations were so clear and soothing as well. One day if I have a chance to build a pond, I’ll do what you said here. Thank you again.
Thanks for your kind words. I wonder why RUclips recommended it to you. Hopefully one day you do get a pond, mine bring me lots of joy.
Your videos are always helpful and simple to understand and makes total sense especially in these often complicated times we live in these days
Thanks, that’s very kind of you.
Instant subscription! Thank you so much for this (and I'm assuming all your other videos too).
This is exactly what I've been looking for.
I'm so happy I found you!
I’m happy you did too 😊👍
Thank you for sharing and creating videos on planning, building and maintaining a pond.
Thank you so much for your generous support. It really does help.
This popped up in my feed, so thought I'd have a squint at it.
Glad I did, as I've learnt something new.
I live in a tenement building, in a city, however, if I ever win the lottery I'll buy somewhere out in the country and create a crystal clear pond, now I have the knowhow.
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Thanks for uploading!
I hope you do win the lotto 🤞
i encourage you to go have a look at prices in small villages around 600 people or so. away from cities. you might be shocked at the prices and be able to stop dreaming and start doing.
I miss the city life sometimes, but then just today, i set up my pond for the year. so theres that
An you put a play pool on the roof or something?
This same concept applies to aquariums as well, with undergravel filters- except water flow is usually top to bottom instead of bottom to top.. If outdoor space is completely out of the question, maybe you can an aquarium.
your pond is stunning
Glad I found your channel mate. Thanks for shaping
I have a bog filter for my turtle tank and it's been running for 5 years, I agree with you.
This is beautiful! Amazing pond
I think of the bog filter as part of the pond. Yours are just as lovely as the pond itself, and that is my goal - to make my bog filter a beautiful functional plant growing part of the pond. I'm trying out a couple different plants this year, I've got hydrocotyle tripartita, bacopa, water sprite, and rotala. I hope the hydrocotyle will take off and shade the top of the bog a little, plus it is so interesting to look at. I haven't had much luck with water sprite in the bog, but it grows like crazy in baskets in the pond, maybe I will have better luck with it this year.
Thanks Mandy. I’m quite sure your bog and pond are incredibly beautiful. Thanks for always commenting and supporting my efforts 😊. Good luck with the new plants. It’s always trial and error 👍
I have been saved by small stock in my ponds. Just as you said, the water was always crystal clear. This worked with my old 5m x 4m x1m large backyard pond to my new 3m x 1m x .4m one. My small pond has no mechanical agitation but a healthy ratio of surface area compared to depth, and a couple of hand fulls of frog friendly fish with plenty of plants and snails have produced the same results. Next to no maintenance and beautiful water quality. Love it ✅️
Perfect 👍
Very helpful..thank you from the green mountains!
Excellent video and the pond water looks amazing! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it👍
Thanks Kev , another great video . I really appreciate your diagrams of the bog filters. 😊❤ Your fish are very sweet.
The cormorant came back😞. The fish in this video have left us. At least some of them. There might be a few still hiding but I haven’t seen any for a few days.
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I love looking at your creations.
Thanks again.
Now I'm off to tap the thumbs up 👍 button to feed the algorithm monsters.
I believe you meant "off to tickle the thumbs up button" cuz kev.
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Yes....
Noted.
Champion 👍👍
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Extremely the most educational video I have found in this topic. I appreciate this explanation!
I’m glad it was useful 😊👍
That's gold information here, thanks!
Great Video on easy ways to create a clear pond. Thank you for sharing
You bet 👍
There's a large run-off pond on my parents' property, and duckweed takes over every year. I hope to manage it a bit this year, and finding your video was very helpful.
Duckweed is a super food high in protein. I keep trying to grow it
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Having a bog filter for 1 year now and wow, just amazed by results. I have around 10 koi and now the water is crystal clear, I'm still amazed. I used to clean the barrel filter ever 2 weeks and never had water quality even close to what it is now, hell I could barely see my koi.
Great to hear 👍
Why would anyone dislike this video ? The information, like with all your videos, is excellent.
Clearly rivals are jealous 🤣
Theres always a few people with a bee in their bonnet. That’s their problem 👍
It's the Aquascape guys who want to regularly sell bacteria to people
Could just be people teaching the algorithm what topics they don't like. The dislike then isn't really criticism, just a "not for me" signifier.
@@AlexaY82 I guess that’s true.
This is an amazing channel as is your web site - full of information, suggestions, guides. Thank you very much.
Glad you like them. I was hoping it would help people. 👍
Excellent well explained video. Thanks from the very wet Lake District in England.
Another awesome update. Thanks Kev. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it 🍻
Great job sir. I just followed ur instruction and made one, I will know tomorrow how well it works.
Best of luck!🤞
Having done aquaponics with fish and biological filtration that in turn feed the water back to my grow beds as nutrients for the plants and then periodically it is drained back to the fish, I'm a firm believer in this.
I have a large catfish my granddaughter caught about 3 years ago and I've had it in a tank over winter, when the top froze over to summer when algae and extra warm water compete for oxygen.
I finally brought it into the house.
One reason it works is I never totally do a full cleaning.
The filter stays mucked up until I rinse the excess off or maybe change the charcoal filter.
This all keeps the tank very clear.
My next challenge is a duck pond I dug. We have clay soil, so it holds water pretty well, but I need to either make a plastic barrel bio filter and maybe even a small bog to clean it.
I'm hoping with both ducks and geese swimming in it and doing their business that I can actually clean it and get rid of the summertime algae bloom.
Good luck with your project 👍
There is another way to have clear water I use. I go to local stream which is overflowing with invasive pond weed, pull out large amounts and throw them in water and they filter it. These need to be changed once pond gets cloudy. Your way is by far superior though.
It’s always good to have multiple options 👍
Kev Hi,
I too have ditched the sponge filters on one of my self made filter barrels now using a gravel filter and water so clear and clean.
Nice 👍
That was easy to understand and I am going to give it a go… thankyou for your help.
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So beautiful.❤ My cat likes listening to these videos 😄
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Just found your channel. Excellent.
With love from Kerala, India.
Welcome aboard 😊👍
Awesome thank you great teaching information greatly appreciated thank you
Thanks, I've heard of Zeolite before, never knew how it was used.
Lovely information.
great vid mate thanks, very informative UK
Good stuff-I like it. 👍
Thanks for the post my smurfy friend!
I’m putting together a video on 3yrs since building the dream pond. I was going back over the old footage…Man it was blue!
awesome video!!
Great stuff!
Thank you for sharing!!!
Nice video. Thanks!
very helpful thank you. Building my first pond as I type
Don't get dirt in your laptop...😋
Great to hear. 👍
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@@Ozponds Pond is now fully finished, had fish in for 2 weeks now and water is still crystal clear, although I'm expecting a few changes as the pond gets established. Just wanted to say a huge thank you for your videos and website, my project was 80% made from information from you, and was built for about 10% of the cost someone would have quoted me. Thank you!
@@bogglesbiggins1101 great to hear. Just remember there’s probably an ugly stage coming.
Very well explained, I have a Aquaponic greenhouse I built a fluidized sand bed to give nitrifying bacteria a home, it works great.
I think I will set up a bog filter for my pond soon,
Thanks for your informative video, cheers 🍻
Sounds great!👍
Kev this was an excellent explanation of the nitrogen cycle. No math to scare off new-be's. They can delve into the math once they get the concept. Again, well done.
I remember how confused I was at the start. Still learning 👍
Grazieeee! In 3 giorni il mio laghetto si è ripulito alla grande, ho anche un sistema blasonato ma non basta; con questo sistema l’acqua è diventata limpidissima! Super!!!
Great to hear 👍
I don’t have a pond, but this was very interesting
Hi Ozpond! I've been using this same concept to clean grey water from homes! Loving nature
That’s how I started my water filtration journey 👍
Then what do you do with the water?
We reuse the water for flushing toilets; or for watering home veggie gardens
@@brycepanter4768 I thought the grey in the water was good for plants?
Idk if I'll ever be able to afford property and a pond but that was cool and informative either way
Im learning about structured water.
It’s an interesting topic.
Bravo. So great to learn there is a solution against having a scum pond.
watched many other videos on this topic, this is the best one. most of them have the crappiest audio and I couldn't understand a thing.
Love this
Thank you for your clear and considered explanation. I am wondering how big my bog filter needs to be, to help make my dam water clear. 😂
Where I live dams are more muddy than green. A bog won’t really prevent muddy water.
nice video keep them coming
Thanks, will do!👍
Brilliant!
thanks mate!
Brilliant buddy
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Nice one 👍🏼
I built an awesome bog filter after watching ozponds.....
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Thank you!!
Thank You.
Thank you.
Thank you
Amazing
Thank you sir
I don’t mind duckweed and other stuff obscuring my pond water. I used to spend time and effort in cleaning and filtering but I learned that it helped to hide the fish from the heron. I think that a layer of duckweed might look like grass from the air. They also nibbled the duckweed when I was on holiday.
Duckweed and other floating plants can actually help with algae as well by blocking sunlight from lower waters.
Just subscribed!
Have you ever explored any Viktor Schauberger inspired water restructuring devices? Truly miraculous results.
I haven’t, now I’m intrigued.
Kev is a pond legend
Thanks!
Thanks so much 😊🍻
It would have been an idea to show how to make one!
I used to use mechanical filters and the water was always green. I switched to a Bog filter years ago. Crystal clear water ever since
Awesome 👍
5:38 i made something similar with 5 gallon bucket of lava rock (for a small pond), works great. no flush valve necessary.
who would have thought keeping the water crystal clear is so easy? no need for expensive filter media or a UV filter. thanks kev.
Perfect 👍
Have to agree, I use red lava rock in my canister filters for several of my aquariums, cheap and effect with plenty of surface area for the bacteria.
Nice
I think I’ll be making one of these this year. I want a mini waterfall anyway.
My bog filter has canna lilies but the problem is the rooting system is very invasive thereby restricting upward flow from the manifold piping. Still working but flow is bit slower
Yes the canna is great at consuming nutrient but those roots! Boy oh boy do they get thick. Here canna go dormant in winter that’s the time to dig it up.
Use of live oysters produces clear water too’
Try some limestone. It raises the pH and helps sedimentation.
Great video. I'm building a pool inside my three acre pond. Sounds crazy but we enjoy swimming in the pond. We don't enjoy the perch eating us alive. The brim here in Louisiana are vicious. I was going to set up a filter a lot like what you do to filter the water going into the pool, from pond 3 the filter into the pool creating a positive pressure of clean water that will displace the dirty water trying to leach in from outside . my worry is it's going to grow algae inside the pool. Would ultraviolet light filter help. And the ideas?
UV will kill suspended algae. It won’t kill all types of algae.
My greeting from indonesia sir
I like too know more about ponds we have a small pond in our yard and it's ugly because of the pond LG be great for fish but we have a lot of frogs in the pond just like too now what I can do to get it clear pond instead of it being gross and green
Fascinating. I wish I had some Australian property to try it out on! I'm guessing you are not in a major city.
No. I’m about 1 hr outside Melbourne.
@@Ozponds With the traffic as I remember it there that probably puts you in about Dandenong 🤣 Too much water here in rural scotland - especially after the snow. I will try to build a pond here.
Hi Kev. Great videos. I have a solar pump, like most, and was wondering if this is enough to provide enough water for a bog filter? The pond is quite small, I'm not great at DIY which is why I've been looking at those ceramic pot filters with charcoal etc....the ones made quite easily, but a bog filter and the idea of the beneficial bacteria really appeals to me. Thanks 👍🏼
All ponds are a bit different. My next video explains more about what to do if solar is the only option.
Brilliant information as ever, thankyou! I am still working on my bog filter after semi success last year. I suspect part of the issue is that I run it on a (powerful) solar pump so it's not on all the time. would you agree?
Filters should always be in action 24/7
Great quality!
What about posphates?
I usually only have an issue if it’s in the tap water. In summer I need to top the pond with city water. Tends to encourage string algae for me, not so much green water.