Pressure Filter and Shower Filter for a Koi Pond - A Match Made in Heaven? 

Lotus Green Reset 100 Pressure Filter (UK): ebay.to/2LijKvI Green Reset 40 Pressure Filter (US): geni.us/Ea1E Amphibious 12000 Pump: geni.us/9ByCf5F Evolve Shower Filter: bit.ly/2IUVwsR Biohome & Pumice: www.filterpro.co.uk This video showcases a combination of filters which is strangely very underused for filtering ponds - however the pressure filter offering UV and mechanical filtration followed by a shower filter offering vast capacity for biological filtration is an excellent way to ensure low maintenance, highly effective filtration. Even a cheap pressure filter and a DIY shower filter will do a great job of cleaning water and as a pressure filter takes care of the mechanical filtration it allows the full shower to be filled with suitable media (and has almost zero maintenance). If you've enjoyed this video please check out the playlists on my channel for hundreds more - on a variety of subjects. Feel free to share or link any of my videos on facebook, twitter, forums etc. for the benefit of anyone you think may also enjoy watching. See you next time. Pondguru RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ON AMAZON: goo.gl/jMaBWy INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/pondguru_outdoors/ FILMING EQUIPMENT: Panasonic HC-VX870 HD camcorder geni.us/3UwE +Rode stereo microphone: geni.us/4OL +Rode 'deadcat' mic cover: geni.us/1pmn JVC Everio quad proof HD camcorder: geni.us/e09e +Rode 'deadcat' mic cover (opened up and held between tripod and camera base) geni.us/dee24 Zomei Z666 tripod: geni.us/1a1af3 Manfrotto MTPIXI-B PIXI mini tripod: geni.us/87f7

Finally a pond channel that I really like.

I'm not missing your days in the shop so much now. I really like what you are doing, very interesting. Have to say though If I had your pond, I'd be converting it to a natural swim pond at 15ft deep, the fish can just get over it lol!

I Love This Channel-I have been following him for 2 years at least and when he ventured off into the wild (bushcraft) I cringed but he finally came back to his senses and is back on track-Ive always liked and supported him----Thank You so Much man and My Best to You and Yours

Great filter by the looks of it. That gunnera will help cover it up and blend it in when it gets going later in the year

Thank you for your time. That is a 27 minutes, ( look see) . And I now think that I can do it as well. All I need now is a fish pond. Thank you.

Hi Richard, after spending days on end looking at information regarding filter systems and filtration media, my head was spinning with all the various info, the info on this video was so easy to follow and expertly explained step by step that I think I now have a handle on how I want to set up the filtration for my sons pond. Thank you.

You really got a point with the Watt's, we changed your pump a month back. Tested it over night, we are doing 10.000L/H with 29-32W now. It use to be around 85W, now i can do 20.000L/H for the same watt.

The local Koi pool in the local Japanese garden uses a couple of filter beds about 4x8' filled with Monterey sands- really its a smooth gravel not sand. From what I can tell,it is up to the job if there are not too many fish in the pond. I doubt its as capable as some twin 5 High pressure sand filters...but this is what they went for. Another uses some kind of pressure filter and that water is crystal clear. That would be the San Mateo Japanse garden..and its STUFFED with big Koi.

Great video Richard. On the UV light maybe the company thinks that the cleaner the water better light penetration compare to the dirty water coming straight from the pond. Looking forward to seeing the setting up of the rest of the filter for the pond. Thanks Richard for sharing.

Hi, Richard i did the same thing last Saturday , I brought the all ponds solutions pfc 50000 auto, it's linked before my bakki shower, must say I'm well impressed with clarity so far

Hi there Richard, Great filter and good info, thanks for sharing and best regards from Kiwi land.

Hi Richard, I've watched a few of your videos and really enjoy them. I found you when I was looking to build a raised pond and used tips from one of yours to build it. It's not quite complete yet but the water is in. The only problem is that I've hit a bit of a snag with the pumping arrangement because my pond isn't for Koi but for my ducks and geese. It's only small at around 1000L, if I've done my sums right, (4' x 4' x max 22" deep) so it gets mucky quickly. My original idea was to have a pump at the deepest point which would push the water up and out of the pond to a filter inlet above the water line because the water level will rise and fall depending on rain & how much the birds splash about. At the time a bottom drain and gravity feed system wasn't even on my radar and someone with ducks and a small setup has advised that the pumps get clogged and break down quickly, possibly because of the feathers. I've watched this video and the mega filter build video and can see that you are pumping up and out of a massive pond which is mucky(ish) and presumably has leaves & feathers together with the lumps of fish poo. I appreciate that leaves will chop up easier in the impeller than feathers would and the ratio of feathers to water volume in your pond is a lot less. Could you give me any advice on pumps that might help me out of my dilemma, please?

Great work nice video.i would drill some more holes in the shower filter just incase them ones get clogged up.cant wait to see what else you do to it.

That’s a great looking filter and pump! I need to build a shower filter now!lol

I must get on building my shower filter. great video as always mate,👍😀

I want to put my 2 cents in it ! Though I can't cause you explain it so well and with details only the real dummy who ask a question instead of re watching it to totally understand it cause with names technics and things you are using what possible can ask if you have any knowledge right ? Even with your accent was 101% clear. It makes me want to go out right now get my big 500 liter barrel and put a pump on it and get some balcony planters in home depot (1.99$ each or something like that) drill a few holes fill it up with medium and just watch as clean filtered water enters the pond and thinking what would be the best way to clean it and how often ...... but that is an other project. PS: There will be some dummies who still ask stupid questions but yes some like where you get this or that and where to by what is the site who don't want to do a little search. But you can't please everybody right. Keep up my friend ! lol

Have you come across those plastic stacking crates supermarkets use for home delivery, known as bail arm crates? They have solid sides, perforated bases and flip over bars so that they can sit one on another. They would be idea for a shower filter and are dead cheap on Ebay.

You need to do a US filter tour!

Very unique channel name

Great to see someone else with a saw in the same state as mine 😂😂

After watching this mate... I'm so going to add a shower to my pressure filter as a secondary. Thanks very much for this post. 👍👌😎

I cannot Justify the price sadly. But epic stuff. It is worth it for people who have HUGE ponds.

That Bakki shower will certainly be clogged up with alge ,I suggest a siv in top chamber ?

Well that's an expensive pump failure. Ouch . It must take a lot of power to filter a pond that size. Now I can't say as I have ever touched a filter that made me think how good it felt lol That is a BEAST of a filter !! your installing. Also a nice little water fall. I like the sound of the water fall. I would like a pond here but it would be frozen to the bottom 7 months a year. The ice on the river freezes at least 40 inches thick each winter and it's moving.. I have to use an extension on my power ice auger just to go fishing. atb Paul

Great video again

I have an 18000 litre/4000 gallon pond, Am I doing the costing correctly that Biohome media would come to about £1700?

I’m unsure what outcome you’re looking for, however if it is clear water you need to up your filter by 10 times, what you’re doing isn’t going to have much impact on such a large pool, which is lovely by the way. Also question how you are going to clean the media in the tub which is sat up high under the deck? The most efficient way for a pool of that size would be a reed bed system via a long stream with drop in pools allowing plants to take the nitrates away. Good luck, I’ll watch with interest.

Thank you for uploading a very informative video keep up the good work

hi richard !! awesome filter setup and will just work well along side the other filter your planning to do !!

@pondguru Thanks for all advice. I now have an aquarium, metal detector and a pond. Can you choose a less expensive hobby to copy next!

actually this is a rebranded product, this filter is made by Sicce (italy): green reset 100...

You should make a cover for the shower filter keep the sun off it will end up going brittle.

I purchased the pump and filter on your recommendation as we used to have a 35 metre by 15 metre swimming pond! but the 45 gold fish was in too small a pond so now they have the larger pond. I used the existing pressure filter and pump to clean the water but it was not strong enough. Fitted the new pump today (July 6th) which is excellent but I struggled with connecting the pipes to the filter the rebranded Green Reset are complete rubbish such a bad design, I just hope it cleans the water otherwise over £500 wasted! Phil North Devon

would putting a flout with a wight so it dose not move around to keep the inlet just off the bottom so it doesn't suck up the muck ?? love your shows, watch a lot so far anr look forward to them all learning a lot.... thanks

The red volcanic rocks go into bbqa in the US. Or they use to...oil would build up and catch fire

I will be looking cheers

Thats a very similar set up to my APS 20k pressure filter , the handle turning on mine is easy , a dab of superglue stops it flying off .

Can u do a vid on water changes, benefits and pitfalls. Homemade dechlorinators etc thx. How much water change to boost koi growth but not harm bacterial colonies. My experience tells me you need decent filtration surface to handle regular water changes.

Hi looks awesome can’t find available in Australia

0:54 plenty of aeration going on there :)

Hi, I'm Filippo and I am writing to you from Italy, congratulations for the video, I still appreciate the inventiveness of others, but I think there are various problems in this system. Please, don't take this as a criticism, but as a way of exchanging experience. ;-) The rule that is usually respected to have a good biological/mechanical filter is that it must have three times the flow rate (per hour) of the basin, and consequently a filter with adequate capacity , otherwise the waste product will always be greater than that it can clean. For a lake like this you will understand that it is very difficult. And that pump, however powerful, is not enough for that lake. Like the filter capacity. That filter in my opinion is useless, if I did chemical measurements in that lake, before and after the installation of that filter, I think it would not change anything. The only way to have a clean lake is to have lots of aquatic plants, and/or a clean river nearby. So creating a filter for a lake is a lot easier than we think, but needs luck, because is not easier to find a lake near from a clean river. If you buy a lake that does not have a clean river nearby, it becomes dramatically expensive. Infact there are also artificial solutions, but they are much larger systems than this, and they are not as cheap as this system. If they asked me to clean that lake, I would tell them to create a smaller one next to it, full of fast growing aquatic plants, to recirculate the water. It's the cheapest solution, and after 1 year the chemical measurements would be better and the water probably would become transparent. I believe operations like this are just a waste of money, with no tangible results. I hope my experience is useful for you. Bye :-)

Thanks for the info in this video. Just bought a green reset 60. Probably too big for my pond but I like the high flow rate of 18000lph. As it will be situated before my shower. I have foams on the first layer of the shower at the moment and sick of cleaning them. Fingers crossed this is what I need.

"The hoes should always be tight" lmfao :D

I see this was posted 4 years ago, are you still happy with it? Hows it holding up, nice and sturdy still? Would you recommend it? Ty!!!! Ps i cant find the video you said you'd make when it was time to clean it.. did you ever record it?

what about attacking the filtering at the stream source where water empties in your pond and also using your pond filters as a back up , maybe you will get cleaner water without the mucky bits n bobs ?

Just bought the 540mm 3 tier filter and will be running it after a pressure filter too I went for the 540 over 1000 as im pushed for space and its worth the money. many thanks on your videos Do you sell pumice on ebay your pond is in the rear of the photos 👍👍

Excellent video, please can anyone confirm the manufacturer of the pressure filter, as the links do not work, thank you.

Won't the water track around that foam after a day or so? Also, when you clean it, where does the poo go? It just squashes into the foam and remains in the water column doesn't it?

Why didn't you install a large vortex filter before the pressure filter? With this set up during the summer, you will have to clean this filter on a daily basis because of all the dirt.

I built a bottom up filter, now I just need to go back down and no need for waterfall. Bonus. A prefilter to this would cut down on washing biomedia I guess.

Thank you sir.. Saya dari Malaysia. Sy sanat berminat dgn filter ni. Dimana boleh sy beli.

What is that little tiny house inside the pond, next to shower filter ?

if you get a lot of wind over your area you should invest in a smaller version of the windmills that they use in wind farms, it would help with your running costs and help you save money for more projects on your pond etc ( and maybe an aquarium in the house lol... Joke )

maybe planting more plants will naturally clean the water ? a pond that size should be able to self clean !! just wondering .

brilliant content well done

hello, pond guru, can you highlight the whereabouts of the followup video that you mentioned about the performance of this filter

is it good to have your pump on the bottom in the "muck"?

thanks, well explained

That looks a lot like a wet/dry vaccume.. i wonder if you can modify one to work similarly

Can you do a video on how you would set up a sump?

electricians tape! - use PTFE. If you use the gas PTFE (thicker) that would be better ....

Great vid, was going to get a Nexus but this is simpler and cheaper, the big filter they dont sell via the link anymore, do you know if anyone is still selling them?

can you explain why you would have a pressure filter, whats the benefit against an open box filter other than pressing a lever up and down to clean the sponges ? Nice channel by the way

Hey mate please advise how you connected the pressured filter to the shower with what attachment please?? Etc ? I’m a bit baffled. Luke

Its interesting at how the reef keeping industry has done away with trickle filters years ago because they require such high maintenance to not be nitrate sinks. The pond industry had not cough up yet...

Thanks for this vid pondy gives me great ideas for when my pond is set up 👍 john :)

What’s the name of the pressure filter and where from at what cost

ever thought about not having the pump touching the very bottom of the pond where it will just suck all the crap up, should do it so its a couple of feet above the the bottom so its only cycling water and not crap off the bottom, (this is what i do in my very small pond but only have it a few inches)

Hi I have a yamitsu mega xl black box,its beed fine nice clean water but cleaning the alfogrog was a bit of a pain,so I've put the alfogrog in filter bags for easy removal and cleaning,I have also fitted a 75ltr bin before the water goes into the mega box I've got the water from pond coming into the bottom of bin 1.5 then a 7 inc high shelve with mesh to rest a coarse sponge then out the top with 2x 2 inch outlets that go into the top of mega box as u would, but now for the last 6 days the water has gone cloudy any idea why it's gone from clear to cloudy just by adding the bin thanks

Loving the content, would you say that lava rock and dead coral live rock would be able to hold anerobic bacteria? thanks aaron

hi brother, good day. i have raised koi pond just finished. i need idea for the filter DIY plz.

Hi Pondguru, I only have a 1000 ltr under deck pond with gold fish & shubunkins, the 3000 ltr per hr pump runs through 2 blagdon UVC pressure filters to a water fall. My question is, would it be best to fit a huge pressure filter filled with Boi ultra between current filters and water fall or add an independent small Bakki shower? Love your videos, very helpful. Kind regards 🤔

hi I do not know if you will see this but can you tell me what that plant to the right of the shower is called the one with huge leaves on it? is it a hosta or some thing hope it isn't a random weed that big

HI love the videos, Can I ask could i buy the wheely bin filter from you? if it were to sit doing nothing, Im not to far away from you at Nth tyneside, cheers

I have just put a pond in and have a pump and pressure filter but was wondering this same thing as I think I would need some more biological filtering going on. I was looking at either a waterfall filter (DIY) and just shoving some media in there or a shower filter (DIY) against a wall, pump feeding that and the pipe coming from that running the waterfall. Obviously this is more difficult as it has to be higher than the pond somewhere up the bank. Is this about right as the pressure filter seems more mechanical than bio? cheers. Great stuff BTW

Sicce Green Reset 100 Pond Filter, USA product

It says max pond size 9246 gallons. Would this be big enough for a 2250g pond with a heavy fish load? (15 adult koi) i only have 11 koi ans not full grown but i do plan on adding a few more. Ty

hello i need some help what piping do I need for a basic small about 500-1000 litre pond made out of cement. I am replacing a plastic liner and making the pond bigger but dont know what is needed for a basic system in terms of piping. do I need a drain and some sort of overflow system into a filter set up? what pipes do you suggest a photo showing this would be helpful thanks.

The thing of a shower filter is, to get air in the water, but the boxes are all closed. The size of that "pond" makes any filter senseless :)

My pond filter pump is about as big and my 14 x 14 5ft deep pond will just not clewr

Thanks for your video. Are you still satisfied with the Grenn Reset 100 Filter? Kind regards from Germany!

@pondguru I have been using a smaller version of your filter for the past 2 years here in the U.S.. The only difference is instead of a pump (up and down) handle mine has a crank (turning) handle also mine has a small void of space in the bottom for your choice of biomedia... I use white pumice (thanks to your advice on media once before). I picked a pump AND filter that were double what my pond was and my water stays crystal clean now with not additives. But I have to ask??? Being in the U.K. and aware of natural swimming pools I am sure, Why have you not done something like that for your pond to get it to clear up? Thanks for your shows!

Why didn't you build your own gravity filter for such a big pond? IMO this tiny (considering the pond size) pressure filter won't do much. I'd go with one or two big 1000 Liter IBC Containers and put a bunch of (like 150) brushes inside. That would filter the water much better than this filter, which considering the pump placement, will be dirty by tomorrow.

What's the make of the filter please

Hi i have a 220 barrel can you please advise me on the best products to use in side for filtering please

what did you put in the three-storey box next to the pool

Can you put k1 in the pressure filter

How is this filter doing 2 years on?

Did you go all cockney at one point

Yo man do the update on that bigfoot/dogman video

Hi Are you still using this filter ? You dont talk about the media in this filter, is there a reason for that ? + Can you change the media ball, and use some K1 insteed ? Regards Henrik

What type of filter system would you recommend for a 2000 gallon koi pond and dose not cost thousands

Hi Richard was watching your video and went out to buy a green reset 100 What a big filter I love it my mistake was i came home from work was a bit tired should of wait till tomorrow to set it up but couldn't wait u have the inlet and outlet basically I fix it the wrong way round 😣 and left it running all night i have fix it now the right way do u think it has damage the filter? Ples let me know thanks sam.

im building a 7ft x 5ft x 2ftdeep pond what pump and filter would u recomend for the size

Hello i interested buying the pressure filter in this video i looked on ebay the filterpro website and cant seem to find it what is the name of the brand name of it then it be easier for me to look it up

QUESTION SIR, HOW DOES ON CLEAN THE SHOWER FILTER THING?

Why not build a bog filter ?

I was wondering would pond filter media like sponges be good for a sump drip plate filter?

No good for koi pressurised canisters at all I use Oase drum plus Momotaro Bakki with BHM 👍