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Thread: Intake Bay
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21-06-2021, 04:08 PM #1
Intake Bay
I think we've pretty much decided on an intake bay for our in ground natural looking pond, rather than a skimmer, but by god the plastics are expensive!
so as the intake bay looks more aesthetically pleasing (and slightly easier maintenance) imo as opposed to a skimmer, it's costing a shed load more.
was this video mainly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdJ9FTXLh-U
anyone come across a DIY bodge up of an aquablox & pump vault?
was thinking of just cutting up a filter box of some kind, as the pump vault to my untrained eye, just looks like a lidded box with some slots in to allow the pump to draw water in, the aquablox looks like a glorified milk crate
Last edited by CBKOI; 21-06-2021 at 04:12 PM.
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22-06-2021, 07:33 AM #2
Looks like a lot of maintenance to me compared to this: https://absolute-koi.com/subcat1266.html
I have an Ultraskim gravity fed into an Ultrasieve which to me looks very unobtrusive and requires very little work - It just removes floating debris 24/7 which is collected by the sieve and immediately removed from the water system. To clean the sieve and remove all the waste I just open a slide valve and push down the weir to purge everything. I don’t need to keep an eye on it or even get my hands wet.
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22-06-2021, 11:06 AM #3
as said, we have a "natural" in ground pond.
this is another video of how they're built, as for maintenance (other than if needing to get to the pump), it's made out to be just a matter of skimming a net over (my parents in their late 60s won't want to be bending down to floor level every day to empty the skimmer basket) and is it has a stream and loads of plants/flowers/trees in the garden would be getting filled up a lot.
https://youtu.be/EvVlOSPHwi0?t=381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-J1vfnv5w
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