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    Hiding a Bakki shower

    Hi All, I'm about to build a 12ft Diameter 4ft deep pond with bottom drain to Drum filter then UV55 to Bakki shower. Trouble is my Mrs doesn't like the look of a Bakki Shower but I want one for the benefits of good filtration, so does anybody know of a way of using the Bakki shower but concealing it say behind a waterfall feature using it on the waterfall. One more thing is it ok to have the BD going straight to a Drum filter especially when the pond lies beneath a tree!

    Many many thanks, looking forwards to everyone's thoughts on this.

    Regards
    Paul



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    My Bakki shower is inside my filter house with a spigot tray underneath it- this has 2 x 4" pipe connections which return water to the pond mid level. So nothing is visible or audible in the pond itself.

    If your pond was ground level and not raised and you were doing a river-style waterfall then in theory you could use a bakki weir tray (side or end weir) to feed water into a small header pool which then ran down into the pond. You could screen off this shower with planting or any kind of screening (you do need some air flow around the shower really though). If your pond is raised then it would be harder to do this since the shower has to be higher than the pond. Perhaps a little tree house with shower in it and water coming down a chute into the pond?

    If this is a proper Bakki shower with high flow rates you are talking about then. you have to bear in mind there will be quite a fast flow coming from this into the pond, even if you sited it remotely. So your waterfall could potentially be noisy. Plus worth planning for what you are going to do in winter where cooling of the pond can occur if a shower is exposed to the elements and a waterfall is running in open air.

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    Here is a picture of what the Bakki spigot tray looks like (it's upside down in this pic obv)

    IMG_3189 by Lara Day, on Flickr

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    I ain’t got my koi Waterlife protein shower hidden I quite like it stood at back of pond they are a few tall shrubs and trees near it that do hide it from back and one side I did think of standing it in next doors garden and having a longer weir on it ha ha


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    Thanks very much Feline, Very helpful. Paul

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    Cheers Dave, I might use my neighbours too!!

 

 

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