Thread: What to do about filtration.

Hi All, Im in the process of designing my first pond. I have the pond volume at 8500L. I have been looking at the easy pod air prices and they seem like a good filter, convenient for cleaning. I am slightly confused about moving beds and weather i will need to have one separate. I did look at the nexus 220 plus, but that s way out of my price range. i will have around 5 fish in this pond and its raised with a viewing window, so needs to be as clean as possible for that, as well as clean for my fish. It will have a bottom drain and be gravity fed.

I suppose what i am asking from you is why a moving bed and any suggestions on other filer systems that are really easy to clean.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Bengo

Hi All, Im in the process of designing my first pond. I have the pond volume at 8500L. I have been looking at the easy pod air prices and they seem like a good filter, convenient for cleaning. I am slightly confused about moving beds and weather i will need to have one separate. I did look at the nexus 220 plus, but that s way out of my price range. i will have around 5 fish in this pond and its raised with a viewing window, so needs to be as clean as possible for that, as well as clean for my fish. It will have a bottom drain and be gravity fed.

I suppose what i am asking from you is why a moving bed and any suggestions on other filer systems that are really easy to clean.

Thanks

Well it's all about budget. I'm a similar size running a BD to an easypod to a tempest back via a single underwater return. I'm happy with performance but I'm right on the limit for bio filtration. The easypod is a great, easy to use mechanical filter but offers limited bio filtration. I'm going to add a moving bed in the near future to provide just that then in time upgrade the easypod to a drum.

Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk

So what your saying is that i should plan in a moving bed now to increase bio filtration? I think it would be quite easy to make a moving bed right? Im presuming not much cleaning to do in a moving bed?

Originally Posted by Bengo

So what your saying is that i should plan in a moving bed now to increase bio filtration? I think it would be quite easy to make a moving bed right? Im presuming not much cleaning to do in a moving bed?

Zero cleaning with a moving bed. I'd 100% recommend you leave space for one. A bakki shower might be another option. All depends on what you want to spend really.

Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk

If no cleaning is required, i could probably make one easy enough. the biggest expense would be the media. i could utilizes the air pump from the easy pod air when not cleaning the pod. working in the same way to the nexus 220 plus. What do you think ?

Go second hand,

I will keep my eyes open for one, if i can save a bit of money on this i will. Is a moving bed necessary on a pond of this size ? So much info out here and a lot of conflicting opinions. I wanted to keep is as simple as possible and easy to clean. I,m more than capable of make diy stuff, however the maintenance is something i really want to keep to a minimum. The nexus stuff looks like its the right fit. However, it really dosn't matter what it looks like because i'm the only one who will see it. unless i make a really impressive job of it and post it everywhere lol.