[Zei Kohaku]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve Nguyen just curious, is there a settling tank in your design? I didn't see it. can you describe the water circulation in details? Steve

Everything began with the idea of making a pond with no holes what so ever. But I want bottom drains and a settling tank. So what I did was:

To put everything inside of the pond and tried to camouflage all that. But I didn’t have to camouflage because the nature is doing that for me with algae.

The water enters in two bottom drains in the deepest part of the pond. The format is like a Y. They connect to a tube with 10 cm. See photo 9 in http://www.mofeliaf.com/Kohaku/e-lnovo3-home.htm As I don’t want the koi to be sucked I use two plastic ware bowl, where I did a hole and put the tube and cut the top sides so the debris could enter but no the fish. Then the tube connects to settling tank. That kind of settling tank was motivated by laziness. (The imperious necessity of doing nothing. Having lots of fun without much work cleaning filters, pumps and trickle towers.)

So what I create was a LMDTD-FLP (Low Maintenance Debris Trap Device – For Lazy People) as you can see in http://www.mofeliaf.com/Kohaku/e-lfiltro-home.htm photos 8 and next.

The water and debris come from the tube, enter in the box and in the trap, the debris stay trapped in the wood net trap and then a tube with 5 cm that is outside of net trap but inside the box, links to the pump hose. So I don’t have heavy debris going to the pump, only very small particles can pass. So I don’t have to clean the pump and the trickle shower filter.

To clean the LMTDT-FLP I open the plastic box I take of the trap, open the door and clean it with current water. As simple as that. And it really works.

Best regards
Zei Kohaku