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Still lost re hooking up filter to pump

13 years ago

I still need handholding to get everything right.

How do I know how much hose I need? How many of the other things do I need? Stainless steel clamps, yes, but how many do I need? Is there anything I can follow, step by step, online to hook this stuff up? My pond needs filtering BADLY.

How sad that I still don't quite get how to do it. Yes, I am one of those people who doesn't have a clue what's inside her car hood either. Thanks for your help, lovely ponders.

My info: it's a reincarnated small swimming pool. We've got a lovely electrical outlet built there. We have a Savio biofilter and a Hydrive pump, nothing in pond or even hooked up.

Would like to put the pump on a submerged table about 2-4 feet down.

Any advice? Thanks.

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Comments (4)

horton
13 years ago
What model of Savio Bio-filter do you have?

The basic arrangement for a pump and filter is that the pump goes under water at one end of the pond and has a hose run from it to the filter on shore at the other end of the pond.
The water is drawn into the pump and pumped from it, through the required length of hose, to the filter and from filter it returns via a waterfall or stream etc, back into the pond.

The hose can be run around the perimeter of the pond and buried into the soil or just run across the bottom of the pond, if you wish, that's up to you.
As far as hose clamps go, you may need one at every hose connection, i.e. one where the hose connects to the pump and another where the other end of the hose connects to the filter.
Since we do not know how you intend to return the water to the pond at this point, that would seem to be the extent of the number of hose clamps required at this juncture?
"Horton"
horton
13 years ago
Click on the link below. There are a couple of a simplified sketches, showing the positioning of a pump and filter in a pond.
"Horton"

Here is a link that might be useful: Building a DIY pond
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hawkiefriend
Original Author
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OK, Excellent, Horton! I was looking for a drawing like that and a description like that!

Why does the filter have to be at opposite ends from the pump? Is it to ensure no dead spots? Water flowing in a certain direction?

If you picture a rectangle, where the front is hardscaped and not a great place for fixtures, and the back is jungle, perfect for everything, you've got our pool-to-pond. I was figuring on putting the pump in the shallower end on the jungle side and the filter on the edge of the deep end, also jungle side. Hope that will work.
horton
13 years ago
Why does the filter have to be at opposite ends from the pump? Is it to ensure no dead spots? Water flowing in a certain direction?"

Yes, you want all the water moving in your whole pond as much as possible.
Mosquitoes like still water to breed in!

I guess your "hard scaped" area visa vi the "jungle" area dictates where your pump and filter will be located.
"Horton"

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