New Tropical Pond

[tuggerd]

Here's my PondMaster 5000 GPH pump. The Laguna 5000 UV light which handles 1,200 GPH of water. It was one of the most energy efficient pumps that I could find.

More of my filter system. I found these large scrubby pads that I'm going to line in between the filter mats for more filtration.

More step finishing.

Here's a sample of how the terrace and border of how the pool/pond will look. White concrete with white rock mixed in the mix, along with laticrete. We used this to stick the pool tiles on. It worked so good that we decided to use it in the mix so the layer of concrete won't strart raising up on us over time.

 

[bigcol]

Awsome dude totally speechlesssssss

 

[billy_the_kid04]

This just keeps getting better and better!

 

[tuggerd]

Here's a bigger piece of the terrace concrete work.

My air pieces to go at the bottom of my barrel filters for cleaning.

Here are the bottom drain pipes going into the filter. Somehow I misplace one of my knife valves. Crap! I can't seem to find them here. Stay tuned to see what I figure out. And yes, I used reductions from my 4" bottom drains to 3" at the ends. If need be I can change them, but the cost of the 4" valves was crazy.

 

[mrunlucky07]

I may have forgotten it already, but do you have an overall picture posted of how everything comes together? The parts look good but I am having trouble visualizing the whole.
I hear you on the valves. I don't think until you have plumbed one you can realize how much the plumbing costs. At $60 per valve it adds up quick. I easily spent more on the plumbing than the filters, pumps and liner combined, and I have hardly any valves!
The UV is a nice unit, you can find replacement bulbs online fairly cheap too if you google the part#. I have the same one and found its works best restricted down to about 500gph, much more flow and it was not as effective. You will like having the air manifolds for cleaning, they really take the work out of it.

You will be swimming with the fishies soon enough!

 

[Rukus]

I'm at a loss for words..... Can't wait tell your done.

 

[JakeH]

How does the air manifold thingy work? Maybe a noob question, but I dont have a pond...

 

[wrobe00011]

Its big and its gotta be nice

you can swim with the fishes hahahahaaha

 

[tuggerd]

I've never really seen it in action but Building a 9'x25' pond thread has some pictures of it working on about the 24 page or so. You hook up the out on a vacume cleaner to the tube and it blows air up through the rocks and shuffles looese most of the garbage that has collected in your filter. We'll see if it works. I'm not even sure on all of the specifics. I just read about this stuff on these forums and try to share.

 

[mkman]

how many watts does the Pondmaster pump use???

I remember looking around a while on championlighting.com on pumps and the wattage and it seemed like the Reeflo pumps were efficient. The Laguna 4200 pump can handle 4200 gph using only 170 watts, thats very efficient.