DIY Duck / Turtle pond filter for under $150, the water is 2 weeks old. Bio filter water garden
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- This is my 4 major redesign and it didn't work with the barrels up right, or with sand at all. The last particulate filter stage is pea gravel. I found that moving 20 to 30% of the pond volume was perfect. Plants are from the local river. This is proof of concept and is getting upscaled this summer. Took 6 months of tinkering but it handles the ducks.
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Wow! That's pretty cool. I found your channel from a comment you made on somebody's dyi bio filter.
I have three ducks and am wanting a garden pond for them. Nothing too big just enough for them to be happy. THEY ARE DIRTY BIRDS THOUGH! 😂
I won't be able to make a system as big as yours but you definitely got my brain ticking here. Ouch that hurts...Anyway, thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed seeing how this works and you used all natural stuff to make the water clean. I like that the best! Your ducks look happy! Thank you!!!
it can be done and it can be scaled up or down turns out this is big enough for a pon 5x that size
cool thing about it is it can be upscaled or downscaled.
Interesting. Here’s how we do it on our farm. I siphon fertigated water off the duck pond. The water then cascades through a long trough made out of half barrels connected together. Gravel, sand, inoculated biochar, the filtered water then exits the trough to a manifold. I also have a barrel which adds biologically charged compost tea to the manifold water. a bubbler in the manifold adds oxygen and mixes the water. The mixed oxygenated water exits the manifold and runs through drip lines to fertigate my fields. Excess runoff is collected from the fields after storms is fed to a tank. Addition water is ram pumped into this tank from the spillway of another pond. This tank water is then pumped back to the duck pond. Periodically, I replace the biochar and add the charged biochar to the compost pile which is made from duck bedding and other yard and garden materials. This compost gets added into the garden soil to grow crops. Garden wastes are fed to grow worms and crickets. Worm casts are added to the garden. Soldier fly, meal worms and crickets mixed with fresh garden wastes, berries, and edible weeds are fed to ducks (and other poultry). The ducks give us eggs, meat and poop in their pond. Then we start all over.
@@answersinreality6316 Happy for your interest. Unfortunately, we decided to sell our property and move back to E. TN. My siblings are not in the best of health and I want to be closer to my family all of which live just over the mountains in NC. I can however provide you with the reasoning behind this arrangement. The duck pond is not that big and sits in a saddle at the top of the hill. So if something wasn’t done, it would become too fertile. So we decided to use the fertilizing water to irrigate our garden. We had to find a way to replace the water that we used, hence the pump, water collection tank and ram pump. Circulating clean oxygenated makeup water through the pond cleared the duck pond up considerably. Since the water from the duck pond was still a bit too muddy, I had to find a way to filter and clarify it before I used it in my drip irrigation lines otherwise they would all clog up. Hence the gravel, the sand filter, the manifold and the bubbler. The easiest way was to hook a bunch of drums together to form a sort of a covered trickling filter trench, add the siphoned water and let gravity do the rest. About that time I had taken a permaculture design course (PDC) and was eager to try out what I had learned and so the biochar, the compost tea barrel were then added. That’s how my system came into being. As to the compost and the ducks. I was looking for a way to cut feed costs. Raising worms, crickets and soldier flies on garden waste seemed like a good way to generate protein for my poultry. They also eat tadpoles and frogs so I added some brush piles and old pipes to the duck pond as safe refuges for the frogs and fish. I also studied up on edible weeds and poultry safe weeds. Once I felt confident that I could identify them, I started harvesting them just like any other crop and started feeding them to my poultry. Some they liked and some they didn’t. Those that they didn’t like I fed to the worms. Those that they didn’t like, I composted. I also learned to make compost teas from weeds and herbs. I also learned to make biochar from the dead finger to wrist sized branches that fall from my trees each year. The larger diameter wood, I use to create hugel kultur mounds or mushroom logs or I chip it up and age it or just throw the sticks down to create mulch for my fruit trees. The basic idea is that excess production is put to use as a feedstock elsewhere on the farm. This creates more and higher quality production that cascades up the trophic levels of the food chain. My family and I just facilitate these natural processes and reap the excess production. Nature does all the real heavy lifting. It’s her homestead. I’m just the caretaker and the hired help. 🤣
Thats quite a system you have there. I love it. Total usage!
You’ve done an amazing job!
Thank you, I did not want to share it until I knew it worked. See so many videos of just a build with no results.
thank you. this was a test to see if it could be done, health issues but hope to have a upscaled version working by september.
Thanks for the video I have seen so many and yours is the first that is actually showing something like what I had in mind
Do you have any updates on this system?
brain tumor took over focus. was in the middle of making a mark II. This year I hope.
Wow beautiful
Man thats really clear!
Thank you. I didn't want to post it until the I was sure it worked. I have seen and copied a few "builds" from experts with 1,000's of hits but they never showed it a days, week, or month later. Those didn't work. Laying the barrel on it side was the key.
@@erinmurphy3587 getting ready to start my project! Hope I have as much success as you do! I have triple the ducks so hopefully I can manage such a scale
@@lostandfound5145 this was a test, we are up scaling to 700 gallon stock tank and have plans for an 18 foot round cement pond.
Looks great! How often do you have to change the water with this set up?
I don't have to change the water at all, the water here is 2 weeks old at the video. I have to flush the filter about every 10 days or so and it takes about 10 gallons to flush it so I just add water to make up for the 10 gallons I lose on the flush. If you want more info and pics you can message me on FB.
no changes just flush the filter once a week
never, just add every time i do a filter back wash
Alot more complex then it needs to be for that size. And no way in hell a duplicate system would cost you $150. BUT still a cool system and no doubt that it would accomplish the goal.
in part stuff i found and pretty close to 150 of stuff I had to buy, most expensive was beneficial bacteria. had the pumps from a hydroponics project. gravel was pretty close to free, the tarp was from moving, barrels from same hydroponics project. If I had to build it today it would be about 250 for a fresh start minus the liner.