Fish Pond Filtration Tips

Fish pond filtration, as the name suggests, is the fish pond filtration system, its main function is to put the water in the body of rich nutrients (ammonia, nitrogen, nitrate), water suspended impurities (fish feces, soil, residual bait) and so on, which affects the quality of the water and the transparency of the body of water and the health of the fish to achieve the effect of the water to clear the fish jump. How to choose a suitable fish pond filtration is the key to success or failure.

"There is no zui good, only zui suitable"! Each kind of fish pond filtration system has its own advantages and disadvantages, and not which is perfect. Choose a suitable for their own fish pond filtration system first we need to understand their different performance characteristics.

Fish pond filtration: broadly generally divided into overflow filtration, drip filtration, plant filtration, fish pond filter, bottom sand filtration and so on.

Overflow filtration: through the siphon or pump strong pumping to make the water body internal self-circulation, in different bins placed in different filter materials to let the water flow through the uniform speed to achieve physical and biochemical filtration.

Working Principle: The water flow out of one bin naturally flows into the other bin through the decomposition of the filter material to realize filtration.

Equipped with filter media: coral sand, volcanic stone, bacteria house, biochemical ball, filter cotton, rattan cotton, brush, etc.

Characteristics: low noise, medium to high effect

Adaptation scope: Koi fish farms, enthusiasts, professional rearing pools can be combined with the drip effect is better.

Disadvantages: large footprint, breeding of mosquitoes and insects, high consumption of filter media.

Drip filtration, refers to a way of water and filter media contact, aquarium circulating water pipe out of the water, through a larger volume and drop of the filter container, due to the larger space, the water can not be filled with the entire space, the formation of water into a fine stream or droplet pattern, slowly drip filter media from top to bottom, so that we can do to maximize the oxygen content of the water to increase the flow of biochemical filtration filtering effect through the filter media, that is, the nitrification. Nitrification.

Working Principle: The water flows evenly through the filter material in the filter box to effectively contact with the air, to achieve dispersal of gas, burst oxygen, cultivate bacteria.

Features: Effective and versatile

Adaptation range: only recommended for large public gardens, koi fish farms, factory fish ponds due to high noise.

Disadvantages: Noisy, higher power consumption due to higher head.

Fish pond filters: generally used separately because of more varieties, plastic fish pond filters (Samson, Ollies, Jiebao), stainless steel fish pond filters (Ollies), sand tank filters and so on.

Working principle: working principle of submersible pumps or self-priming pumps strong pumping, the general principle is close to just the internal cartridge differences, the general plastic fish tank filter for filter cotton, stainless steel for the suspension cartridge or nano-filter cartridge, sand tanks are generally quartz sand.

Characteristics: low noise, simple maintenance, low cost, good effect

Adaptation range: Hardened landscape fish ponds, koi fish ponds, etc.

Characteristics: low cost, satisfactory results, easy to install.

Cons: Large rivers and landscaped waterways cannot be used without hardened pools.

Plant Filtration: Plant filtration systems are generally used in landscape water systems with silt at the bottom or in rivers, where only the water body can flow, and replanting of water plants or aquatic plants is required annually.

Bottom sand filtration: in the bottom of the hardened fish pool cloth with pipes, pumps and gravel, this method is not widely implemented, the early effect is good, but the late precipitation of silt and pumps clogged cleaning, gravel replacement are required to drain all the pool water, fish are not good to be spared, time-consuming and labor intensive.

If it is a small indoor fish pond filter cotton type small filtration system, timely cleaning less fish can achieve the effect.Outdoor landscape fish pond Ollies is a good choice, at least do not need to replace the filter media and cleaning, save a lot of manpower and material resources. Fish farms or ready to keep high-density poisoning quite deep fish friends can consider intelligent integrated fish pool filter and filter pool combined use, after all, high requirements to achieve the effect is also completely different.