The Importance of a Koi Pond Filter

  If you’re planning to have a water garden or a fish shoal, you may wish to have a koi pond filter, one of the most valuable part of your garden pond. These pond appliances have many configurations, with price cost depending on its elaboration. You will need an aerator, a pump and a koi pond filter in your fish shoal. These devices can be installed at different positions within or outside the pond, depending on the type chosen, and each has their own advantages and disadvantages.

Look into the uncomplicated Koi pond filter type like a basket filter. Whatever the design, these types can be positioned above the water surface or even underwater. These pond filters work by forcing the water through a net which captures larger debris and then returning the water to the pond. Filters is a basic need for your pond. Whether it big or small, different sizes of debris can be removed by different types of garden pond filters. You will have to dredge the basket filter to prevent clogging. This is done according to the schedule designed by the manufacturer of the device.

An improved type of filter is available in your favorite garden store today called UV filter. As one proverb said “sunlight is the best disinfectant” and this speaks the basic truth for this garden pond filter. Quite specifically, the radiation from the ultraviolet rays of sunlight effectively destroys different red algae and residues.

These pond filters expose quantities of the water to a powerful UV light that destroys microorganisms and algae which pose a hazard to fish. You will have to clean regularly this types of pond filters. The UV bulb housing may become encrusted with grime after a time and this needs to be removed so that the maximum possible amount of UV light is delivered to the water that travels through the pump. Primarily these pumps would take in small amounts of water through them. They would be a great embellishment for your garden pond but they can’t necessarily handle quantities of water that can sufficiently provide safe water in the whole pond.

A bacterial garden pond filter uses living organisms to purify the water of organisms that prey on fish and other pond-dwellers. These pumps have to be primed with bacteria before they are set to work cleaning the fish pond water. Usually, they are re-primed frequently during the first few weeks of use, according to the manufacturer’s instructions and then at longer intervals thereafter. Algae and the so called “pond scum” pollutants usually don’t survive bacterial filters. Switching on the particulate pond filter, like the basket filter, will give some long visible results. Cleaning up fouled water can take a long time to be cleaned by the bacterial filter and this make take some months. The garden pond filters need to be installed before you see any algae problem to prevent more trouble of having to clean some mess once the plants are established.    

The pond volume will have a significant effect on the results of any given type of filtration. Pond filters are not the area where one should consider cutting corners, to be certain. The filters should have the capacity to filter at least half of the pond’s total water volume every hour. For large ponds, obviously, one should anticipate spending a decent amount of money on filtration technology. Even though this may seem extravagant, if having a good filtration can ensure that the fish in your garden pond to be well and sound.

Landscaping Calgary is a local organization that supports the use of koi pond filters.

Written by: Custom Stone and Waterscapes ‎3829 Parkhill Place SW, Calgary, AB T2S 2W6 (403) 870-1142