How Pond Bio Filters Work ... Articles List

Think of a biofilter as a simple box, any shape, it doesn't matter for most ponds. Inside this box is biomedia which is a fancy word for virtually any solid material on which bacteria can grow. Such material could be stone, plastic, cloth ... almost anything. The rougher the surface the better. The biofilter bacteria will live happily so long as the are fed (fish waste) and are supplied with oxygen (from pond pump circulating the water). Then they will do a great job of keeping pond water clean.

• Ammonia In Every Fish Pond | How To Control It Naturally
  I am pretty confident that most pond keepers have come across warnings about ammonia in pond water. Certainly those koi enthusiasts who are brave enough to "show...

• Why A Bead filter is Good Choice | Large Koi and Goldfish Ponds
  Why A Bead filter is a Good Choice For Larger Koi and Gold Fish Ponds. A Bead filter for koi ponds. Based upon chemical engineering principles alone a bead filter should be one of the very best types of biofilter especially for larger koi ponds...

• Your Choice For Best Biofilters For Larger Fish Ponds
  Your Choice For Best Biofilters For Larger Ponds and Serious Koi Keepers. Readers keep asking me about larger ponds and filters to suit so here's my view...
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• Summertime | Learn About About Green Pond Algae Control
  How To Have A Crystal Clear Pond This Year. When shallow pond water warms up then beware of algae blooms. Before I comment read this letter received from Sharon this week...

• What really happens in a fish pond filter every day all day
  What really happens in a Fish pond filter. I consider this article to be one of the most important I have ever written. Understand the basics of pond water filtration well and you will rarely have serious pond problems...

• Why Koi or Goldfish Suffer When Pond Water Quality Is Poor
  Why Koi or Goldfish Suffer When Pond Water Quality Is Poor. The metabolism of a gold fish or koi is difficult for us to understand...

• Good Pond Keeping Bacteria | How Your Fish Benefit & Thrive
  the Secret To Good Pond Keeping. Bacteria, Biomedia Oxygen & Pond Filters. The more bacteria you have in any pond filter the better your pond water quality will be...

• How a correctly designed Biofilter can save you money
  How a correctly designed Biofilter can save you money on a pump. I am sure you are saying to yourself how on earth can biofilter design effect the cost of a pump?...

• Why Your Pond Filter or Bio filter need lots of oxygen
  Why Your Pond Filter or Bio filter need lots of oxygen. The Fish Need Oxygen Too. One of the very best koi keepers in the world once said to me something I will never forget...

• Pond Filters Biofiltration & Bio Starters | Nitrification Bacteria
  Pond Filters & Biofiltration and bio starters. Also Called Pond bacteria starters. I received a very interesting question from a lady reader this week...

• Protect the lives of your fish With A pond filter Summary
  Protect the lives of your fish With A pond filter. Summary. Concepts: water, filter, pond, biofilter, bacteria, fish, solids, Alfagrog, litre, surface area, foam, waste products...

• How To Improve Any Pond Filter In Any Koi or Goldfish Pond
  How To Improve Any Pond Filter In Any Pond. Increase Bacteria biomedia. it is important to understand surface area in terms of biomedia choice. You will save lots of money on your biofilter this way...

• How a pond filter works in practice & how to improve filtration
  Pond Filters Need Good water Flow & Ideally Turbulent water. The performance of any pond filter no matter what its design is greatly influenced by the principles described below...

• Part 1 of 4 | Learn All About Fish Pond Filters Pond Water Quality
  Learn All About Fish Pond Filters & Pond Water Quality Part1 of 4. In a pond toxic chemicals build up naturally...

• Part 2 of 4 | Learning About Pond Filters & Fishpond Water Quality
  Learn All About Fish Pond Filters & Pond Water Quality Part 2 of 4. Shape of a biofilter (pond filter) does not matter. Make your own. Once you fully understand what a pond filter does and how a biofilter...

• Part 3 of 4 | Learning How To Manage Pond Filters & Water Quality
  Learn All About Fish Pond Filters & Pond Water Quality Part 3 of 4. Bacteria grow on biomedia surfaces. More surface = more bacteria = cleaner pond water...

• Part 4 of 4 | Know All About Pond Filtration & Water Filtering For Ponds
  Learn All About Fish Pond Filters & Pond Water Quality Part 4 of 4. Biofilters summary. To summarize. biofiltration capacity in any system can be enormously increased by replacing traditional plastic tubes by more efficient biomedia...

• Why You MUST Consider A Combined UV & Pond Filter
  Why You Should Consider A Combined UV and Pond Filter Of The Pressurized Kind. Last week we did the annual exhibition of our fibreglass water features at the UK's premier garden trade show called GLEE...

• Danger Beware | Koi Pond Sand Filters Cause Serious Problems
  "Koi Pond Filter - Sand Filters Beware. I am taking this opportunity to dissuade people from using sand filters for a koi fish garden pond filter even as a so called "polishing

• How beneficial bacteria Keep A koi or goldfish pond healthy
  How beneficial bacteria Keep A koi or goldfish pond Healthy & Clean. Bacteria fulfill so many vital roles in shaping life on earth that we are still discovering new ways in which they affect the world we live in...