It's really neat and has improved my life a ton and i'd like to think the birds appreciate clean water. It takes maybee 30 minutes to clean the filters, but if you spray them out over a catch basin, you've got a bunch of real nice super fertilizer that the plants just love! I can get away with cleaning it about every 6 weeks.
The water follows gravity down to the next layer in the trash can through the furnace filters where a lot of the poops and dirt get filtered out.Īt the bottom of the can is a 9" reservoir that allows the sediment to collect and not return to the pond/pool. the pump has no problem with pushing 1/4inch material through a 1/2 in.pipe. Screen door material is the first layer and it catches the big stuff that lands on top. I pump the duck water into the top of a trash can that's fitted with some fine grain furnace filters. I have a pump that pushes 700 gallons per hour. It also makes the yard a ton better because the water actually stays CLEAR(!) rather than the constant black pool we all know and loathe. I went from having a -super completely- disgusting kiddie pool every week - to have a nice pond that requires minimal effort.
I ended up building a pump and filter contraption to keep up with the ducks. We only have two ducks and i know some of you out there have some many more! I did the kiddie pool thing and found it just too much to keep up with. There are a ton of these posts looking for kiddie pool drains.
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