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New project, will take a long time

Yanbbrox;3025195; said:
Problem sorted, the diy strainers I built were too large, at the time I thought this was a good idea as there were little to no chance of them coming out. This proved true but I wasn't expecting a frog to somehow get through the folded section and set up life in the flow:WHOA: I removed stainer one and there it was clam as day, frog removed and the strainer put back in the problem went away. I'm now going to have to make new ones just slightly bigger than the hole to stop this in the future.

Filters are running again, fish are still feeding well, the larger white ghost seems to be leader, all the little ghosts and the asagis follow it everywhere. The large orange ghost has teamed up with one of the Sturgeon:screwy:

Plan for the weekend is shut everything down and have a good look inside the filtration system to see what's going on. Before I do this I'm going to purge all the chambers from the bottom tank connectors and see what comes out, that should be pleasent. I'm still not sure that this is all necessary but it'll help me understand what's happening better with a filter system of this scale, after a week. It will also help me plan the maintenance better for the future.

Sheesh sounds to me like you just don't know how to leave well enough alone. Now that everything is setup and running you have nothing better to do with yourself than take the dam thing apart, and wonder what makes this thing tick. Until something goes wrong, it's a filter it's supposed to run continuously unbothered until cleaning time. That's not every time you need something to do dude.:screwy:
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Tequila;3025896; said:
Sheesh sounds to me like you just don't know how to leave well enough alone. Now that everything is setup and running you have nothing better to do with yourself than take the dam thing apart, and wonder what makes this thing tick. Until something goes wrong, it's a filter it's supposed to run continuously unbothered until cleaning time. That's not every time you need something to do dude.:screwy:
:popcorn:
Trust me I've got plenty of other stuff to do, this is a hobby after all....
 
More info on the cheese wedge later.

Today I've actually test the water clarity with a tape measure, something I really should have done before I fired the filters up but hey.

Clear to 13'' so that's 35'' to go
 
Discharge from the tank connectors:

Chamber one, was a lot worse, I still need to sort out the down pipe, lots of muck at the bottom:

ch1.jpg

Chamber 2 or three, I can't remember wince one I forgot to snap:

ch3.jpg

Filters stripped down and cleaned(and it'll annoy Master Tequila;)), diy strainers modified, more K1 added, more info later, I'm hungry:)
 
The Diy strainers I made were over sized so they would stick in and not come out, although great the kink in them when putting them in the pipes made for a perfect haven for debris to collect and clog up:
kink.jpg
They have been reduced so they fit perfectly with no kinks, gaps etc.:
ch1nok.jpg
Chamber two was not as much of a problem as heavy solids are taken care of by now, so instead of cutting it all down it was modified:

ch2nok.jpg


 
Also due the build up of solids underneath, a second layer of matting has been added under the chamber. There is a slight dead spot near the air pipe this will be sorted out tomorrow:
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The air has now been redirected back to the pond to provide air to the pond as well as the fluid bed, not bad considering this is all off one pump, fine tuning took forever. Not the biggest air flow in the world but air none the less. Fish visable at about 3 feet, just:


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