my pond is starting to take shape i've added a few plants now starting to look good
water quality is so much better with a biological filter and now i'm going to pretty much insert a
sediment tank so i'm going to join two 75 litre bins together this time with a larger 50mm flange
and use one the first one is a sediment tank and flow into the second one into my biological filter
what i've done i've taken off this fitting for my biological filter and what i'm going to do is put
a hole increase that that hole there um with a larger larger one of these maybe a 50 mil flange
and join these two containers together these two buckets together and that way i can have
a settlement tank in the first one capture all the sediments slowly rise up through
maybe have a couple of sponges and then overflow into my biological filter,
now it's just a matter of silicon everything together sealing it up like so.
okay i've just finished putting joining the two pipes together as you can see here the top i'll
show you a close-up view in a second but joined two pipes together this is uh trying to create
a vortex in the bottom as you can see now i've got the pipes going at different angles this
will be the feed-in feed-in pipe from the pump water will travel down through here it'll spin
just put it in here okay so i've just spent a lot of time just joining these two
bins together you can see here i've used the flange in the top i've cut out
the recess from both bins and that way they can sit flush together you can see there i've then
uh gone and i've changed my biofilter design a little bit now i've used the first bio filter that
i designed but i've put it in the settlement pond instead because it's a 25 mil pipe now because of
the the overflow that i discovered previously in the biofilter i need at least 50 mil to allow the
water to escape so what i've done now is in the center i've used the 50 ml flange and then i've
had to use 50 ml pipe to join it so what i've done for the biofilter now as you can see all
i've done is just put a an elbow at the base and that still should create that vortex and the angle
should be okay and i've put in two bottom drains now one in each the first bottom drain that i had
in the biofilter and then as you can see i put a second bottom drain there another thing i'm
going to do that i've just thought of is i've just every single day i stand on this doormat
and i was just looking at it it's just perfect to hold um really cool sediments so i might put
this on the bottom bottom of my filtration tank and i may also put it on top of the um
bio filter as well just to hold down all the sponges looks pretty perfect i'll give it a try
i'll just check the size yeah i'll have to cut it to size but uh i think it might do fine as
you can see i've just put in a whole lot of scouring pads and this big sponges and i've
really jam-packed them in as tight as possible in the pre-filter area so it'll give it a bit of a
take out all the large particles and then only small particles will get through and they'll
settle and go into the biofilter and there you have it i've just put that floor mat on top of
my sponges just to help a little bit more sediment sit down on top i've jam-packed
the second one full of sponges as well uh and then what i'll do is find i have to find some other
sort of medium to put on top of that really fine medium and then it'll overflow into my waterfall
and the color choice of dark green will blend in and i'll i'll grow a few plants in the top
and then all i have to do is put fish okay this will be the test i've just turned on the pump
so the water should be filling up inside i can see it's starting to come through now
okay it's just starting to come through and yay it's filling up
okay filling up the second one
okay now at the moment both tanks are equalizing water's just gone down the pipe it's come
up through the second tank biofilter and it's starting to flow out the uh out the two outlets
here's the system action working perfectly going down into the waterfall oxygenating the water
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