In a previous guide we went through the pros and cons of each main type of pond filter. With your choice made, swimming filter installation is next.

How to install a box filter

Box filters work via gravity so they need to be placed to a higher place the pond. For ground-level ponds, the box should exist placed at the edge of the swimming, with the outlet projecting over so the filtered h2o drops back into the pond.

If you take a waterfall, either keep the filter box on the border of the pond and use a separate, second pond pump, "T" off the filter feed and send one hose up to the waterfall, or identify the box at the meridian, behind the waterfall.

Place the box on a strong, level surface, where you lot can easily get to it for maintenance. Outlet pipes on box filters should only be extended with circumspection, and most are amend left short, every bit the manufacturer intended. Don't be tempted to reduce the diameter of the outlet pipe, run flexi hose off information technology, or run it uphill, every bit the box will probable flood.

If the placement of a box filter is inconvenient or unsightly and then a pressurised filter may well be for you. But big box filters are ameliorate swimming filtration for Koi ponds because of their much larger filter media chapters.

How to install a pond pressure filter

Of all the swimming filtration available, Pressurised filters have the most flexible fitting options. They tin be buried in the footing up to their lids or placed a long way away from a swimming or waterfall, behind a tree or in a shed. This makes them especially useful when a waterfall is required simply you lot don't want the filter to be seen or spoil the natural look that you've created.

Decide if you lot want to coffin the unit of measurement or not and if you practise, use a spade to dig a hole and place it in it. If y'all don't want to bury it identify where you would like it and run the inlet hose from the pond pump in the pond to the inlet on the filter. And then hose from the filter outlet either to the top of a waterfall, via water features or back to the swimming. If it comes with a built-in UV light to tackle light-green water, make certain the cablevision is long enough to reach a power point.

Some pressurised swimming filters also have a third outlet to flush waste away. This can exist left bare, with muddied pond water jetting a short distance into the garden when flushed, or a garden hose can exist connected to accept the water to a drain or a flowerbed.

How to install an All-In-I swimming filter

All-In-One filters are the quickest and easiest of all filters to install as they are just 1 device - a pond pump and biological filter combined into i unit of measurement - which you identify in the garden pond. If you desire to employ the fountain facility and so identify the submersible pump at a depth where the fountainhead sticks upward a few inches out of the h2o. Fountains need the pump to exist level if they are to produce an even rose of water. If the swimming bottom is uneven consider a model with an angle adjustable fountainhead for perfect levelling.

Tie some string to the filter and so that you can retrieve it without pulling the ability cable, then place the filter in the pond.

Swell UK recommend that all garden ponds which incorporate fish should be filtered with a suitably sized pond filter. Filter media within the filter colonise with beneficial bacteria, breaking down fish waste, converting toxic ammonia and keeping fish healthy. They accept the do good of clearing the water too then you lot can view your fish in crystal clear water year circular.