mort
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Hi, I've got a couple of questions I'd like some advice on please. The first is for my friend who basically doesn't believe anything I say so hoping you guys can add your thoughts so I can show him.
Basically he wants to build a new filter for his pond and he has an old water butt. He's seen on YouTube that people have the input near the bottom and the outlet at the top but he can't get his head around whether this puts more strain on the pump than adding the extra head and doing the reverse. I've spent ages giving my opinion but he's not convinced.
Second is for me and is a simple question but unusual situation. Last year my upper pond sprung a leak so I added a new pond on the other side and moved the filtration to it. So I have filtration going into upper pond then the main pond. Where the leaked old upper pond is I am going to turn this into a bigger wildlife pond and use it as a bog/vegetable filter flowing into the main pond. So since the filtration of the pond is already there for the system would you do anything with the input water into the wildlife pond? A certain amount of muck will make it in there but is it worth filtering it before or does it benefit more from crud input.
TIA
Basically he wants to build a new filter for his pond and he has an old water butt. He's seen on YouTube that people have the input near the bottom and the outlet at the top but he can't get his head around whether this puts more strain on the pump than adding the extra head and doing the reverse. I've spent ages giving my opinion but he's not convinced.
Second is for me and is a simple question but unusual situation. Last year my upper pond sprung a leak so I added a new pond on the other side and moved the filtration to it. So I have filtration going into upper pond then the main pond. Where the leaked old upper pond is I am going to turn this into a bigger wildlife pond and use it as a bog/vegetable filter flowing into the main pond. So since the filtration of the pond is already there for the system would you do anything with the input water into the wildlife pond? A certain amount of muck will make it in there but is it worth filtering it before or does it benefit more from crud input.
TIA