Thanks for your interest! Please refer to below video description for details on the building plan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u_JdR6ghwPU.htmlsi=eAOM7q4GXzlpnaqQ
Really nice job….really nice. You did a great job. Should run your drain water into a vegetable garden to take advantage of the nutrients in the waste water.
You don't have to blow air back in. This type of system is set up to settle. Yiur drains are set up perfect. But mixing up just stirs it up and breaks up your bio colony on the k1. If you just open each valve for 5 or 10 sec each you will draw all the muck from bottom of tanks and not lose much water. I built one like this a while back and this is how I do mine. Yiu want to bacteria colony on the media to help keep nitrogen down. Just my 2 cents but it is a nice looking build. Try next time just pulling much from bottom without aeration and yiu will see you get much more muck and lost less water. Also use the drain off for plants in yard as plants love the fish emulsion
Thanks for your tip! I’ll try next on the first cleaning cycle. You are right. Draining all accumulated muck and dirt at the bottom first before blowing the air in is a great idea. However the media themselves are quite dirty over time which need to shake off those dirts during cleaning. My barrel #3 - the moving bed - is the main house of beneficial bacteria. Other two barrels mainly serve as mechanical filters.
Excellent work, very clever. One question, why didn't you ese filter material like sponges? And some other material like Matrix? Thanks for your attention
Sponges are not easy to clean as bio media such as K1, K2 or K3. Not sure about Matrix but these K1 & K2 media are so easy to clean and maintain. You can watch some of my cleaning videos of this system. Sponges would be a pain to clean once they saturated and clogged up.
@@PTranProductions Use K1 like you in 3 of them and alfragrog in last tub but I have 4. find they work best if all the tubs are moving, not had a single reading with all moving tested it over a season if this helps :)
@@AMGINE1000 Thanks for the info! I have one moving bed and two static beds. The static beds serve as two mechanical filters that collect dirt/sediments from the pond water.
@@PTranProductions Yes good Idea I have a Vortex to catch my mess so get what your saying, your media will soon brown up as it matures. like the air pipes you made really good idea to stir them up :)
@@AMGINE1000 Yes, all my media are fully mature now. The system has been working flawlessly. I am very happy with the end result - crystal clear water pond at last. 😀
Great job Tran! So if you clean the barrels 2 times like this you are losing around 120 gallons of pond water! Are you adding fresh water back to your pond?
Yes, there’s an autofill valve at my skimmer that automatically top up the pond whenever the water level goes down below my desired settings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rZeeYpkgb5M.html
When you shut off your pump to aerate for cleaning; do you have a shut off valve on the pump line? I noticed mine backwash into my skimmer, and figure a valve will stop that.
@@tungnguyen583 4 cubic feet of K1 & 2 cubic feet of K2. If you would like the building plan and material list, please read this video description below for more details. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u_JdR6ghwPU.html Cheers!
@tungnguyen583 Anytime! Let me know if you have any more questions. You can also send me a message (English or Vietnamese) via FB Messengers @PTranProductions.
One more question. I thought each barrel had beneficial bacteria. I thought you had bacteria in stage 1 and 2 that their job was decompose the organic matter in the biomedia. Isn't that so?
Beneficial bacteria is usually added to the barrel # 3 (the moving bed). The other two barrels are static bed - mechanical filtration. Yes, there are probably bacteria accumulated to those bio-media in barrels 1 & 2.
Excuse me, why not simply drain the dirty water instead of using the vacuum blower? By the way why using the vacuum blower and not simply an air compressor?
Over the course of two weeks of filtration, lots of sediment and mud would be accumulated at the bottom of barrels. That’s why the vacuum blower is used to stir up that sediment and drain it out. You can also use an air compressor if you like. I utilize the blower option out of my shop vacuum instead adding extra cost for a new air compressor.
Yes, there’s auto filling valve at my DIY skimmer that maintains the water level of the pond. Every time I remove the water from the pond, the valve opens and fills up the pond to the preset level. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-atQ9t4DRQG8.html
The ratio is roughly 50/50 - each barrel volume is 4 CF (30 Ga) with barrel #1 has 2.25 CF of K1, barrel #2 has 2CF of K2and barrel # 3 has 1.75 CF of K1.
@@PTranProductions :Many thanks I am finalizing my Aquaponics system's Filtration and i would like to use your system..You are doing a great job Sir and would like to thank you again..God bless
Yes, there’s a city storm drainage basin in my back neighbour’s yard and it is ok with him for me to drain excess water especially swimming pool water back there.
I thought the bio media was to grow beneficial bacteria, not keep sterile clean. Yes, clean & clear water is great,, but the right bacteria/algea help control other chemical elements that affect the fish living in the man made puddle.
Barrel # 3 is the house for beneficial bacteria. Barrel 1 & 2 are mechanical filtration. Water condition has been improved and the fish are still active and well.
This was only one week old. The system was not fully mature yet. Check out this latest cleaning video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AKVxPPFm6s4.html The media got more mature and more dirty.
