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Quote: Originally Posted by kingkong I will take a try at the process. Sounds like water is being spilled over clay pot chards before entering the pond rather than a free fall out of a 3 inch pipe. Water is "thin", having a lower viscosity than lets say honey. Water will deform in shape under shear stress. With fluid friction, water running over many flat surfaces, the water is "thinned" out. There is a much greater surface area in contact with atmosphere allowing greater respiration or gassing. So water viscosity allows for thin sheeting, if the situation allows, which in turn allows for higher respiration. There ia a new filter manufactured in Europe the works on this principle.

mr King kong, you nail the degas process. water get to be real thin, my pot is 16 " high, enough to degas, my path is only 1 feet long, at first, i make some kind of comb to separate water, but without it, still fine. i put some oyster shell on the path that all. the pot wall is vertical, so water kind of slide over it. i hope i can have picture to all you see, right now, i have 4 selfbakki like that, all easy to do, cost under $100 each, clean once per week. I do not believe on complicate device. The more simple, the less trouble down the road.