Pond Filtration System!

What are your plans for pond filtration?

To maintain clear and healthy pond water requires properly designed pond filtration system.

If you are not sure what kind of pond filter to install, lets examine your options.

Fish and plants produce excess nutrients, which cause algae, high pH, reduce oxygen level and potentially create toxic water.

Swimming pools use mostly Mechanical Filtration System. It is very simple pond filtration system to remove debris and other matter. The component combination includes a water pump, filter foam and brushes.

Since plants and fish, I presume, will become an important part of your pond, you will have to deal with toxic fish waste and decaying root particles. Mechanical Filtration System will not work alone, and by adding the Biological or Bacterial filtration would produce much better results.

What we are now talking about is the Bio-Mechanical Pond Filtration System. Lava rock, foam or gravel can harbor nitrifying bacteria, and by moving the pond water through would speed up the process of converting ammonia to harmless nitrate.

But if you want the best of the best, consider Natural Filtration System, which include plants as a filter. That is why it is also referred to as Plants Filtration System (Pond BioFilter). Plants perform the total filtration job, not just part of it.

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Here is what Dick Schuck of Maryland Aquatic Nurseries says: “The nitrate build-up which eventually results from biological process can best be eliminated through proper deployment of plants in a pond, natural filter and/or biological filter. Natural Pond Filtration Systems can be used in lieu of bio-filters as the plant roots in the natural filter perform the biological function as well. Also, plant roots are great mechanical filters when allowed to grow out into the water column”.

In your plans for pond filtration, first calculate the water volume and surface area of the pond. There is 7.5 gallons per cubic foot. Now multiply, in feet, the pond length by width by depth. Take the total and multiply it by 7.5 (gallons).

Lets look at this example, and to make it simple, lets take a 10’ long x 10’ wide x 1.5’ deep pond:

- The surface area is 10’ x 10’ = 100 square feet
- The pond volume is 10’ x 10’ x 1.5’ = 150 cubic feet
- The gallons capacity is 150 x 7.5 = 1,125 gallons

With this knowledge, you can now consider right combinations of filter components to achieve your objectives. And also don’t forget other important additions to help maintain a clear and healthy pond:

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