WETLAND FILTER Pond Plants - What to plant, how to trim 

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Thank you sir

Thank you. Check out my Instagram for photos of the completed project

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens AWESOME POND,❤ I just joined your channel I'm going to check out some of your other videos about what you have going

Thank you! Wait till you see my latest mega pond. We break ground in two weeks.

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That was weird. Thanks, I guess. 🤯🤛

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens lmaooooo

Thanks very much!!!

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We actually found it like that in a riverbed that we use to harvest logs. How lucky is that?!?!?!? There was very little modification that we did to incorporate into the water feature.

Call me at 888-713-7771. I'd be glad to help. I'm in California, and business hours are from 9 to 5 our time.

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Thanks for the kind words Tyler. How's your project coming? Raised wetlands are a little clever to create. We take future elevations minus current grade and dig appropriately. Then we backfill the planter as we build the wetland. My foreman came up with the idea for the upside down urn. :)

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Coming along slowly! I look forward to a day when I spend more time executing the project than figuring out how to execute it. :)

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Thank you for your kind words and subscribing! This spring, do a full cleaniut and remove them all, remove the gravel, repot them and add new gravel. It's the only way I can think of the slow their growth. Rootbound lilies are well contained to small areas. All the best to you amd yours! Carl

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Thank you, we tried to get them out once before but they are suprisingly difficult to remove. We're working on the wetland filter (which we thought was just an upper pond before watching your channel) now and hope to get to the bottom pond before it gets to cold. Thanks for the great videos!

Sure. In a video? 😀 1. Mitigate the source 2. Activated carbon 3. Hydrogen peroxide 4. Flocculant 5. Aeration 6. Broad leaf plants 🌿 in the pond that are hardy to your planting zone.

I usually dig them 6 feet. 4 for the filter, 1 for retained water line, and 1 for edging.

Yes, absolutely. There is a tremendous amount of turbulation that occurs in an intake bay. Excellent question 👏

Hi Carl, have you been able to write down the names of the plants somewhere ? Thank you !

Not yet. I'm traveling this weekend, but I'll get to that list monday

Don't feed your fish during the winter and use cold water beneficial bacteria. You may also use a phosphate binder as well. Phosphate binders remove a major food source of string algae. Thanks for reaching out. Please subscribe 🙏

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Thank you very much for your fast reply, i appreciate it a lot.

There are about 8 to 12 inches of waterline above the gravel, and the wetland is 5 feet overall. The canna in this one was from a garden center and grows over 6 feet tall during the peak growing season.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Thanks for the quick response, I'll be sure to let you know how mine turns out.

@@go_Rogue send pictures to carl@columbiawatergardens.com

I usually run drip line to emitters or a sweat line that forms beads of water along the line.

String algae is evidence of excess phosphates. Get a phosphate binder and use a mild oxidizer like barley extract. Also remember that some string algae is actually good at clearing the pea soup algae from ponds so you want some, just not overrun. Also, is your pond is leaking and the autofill runs all the time, you could be introducing phosphates through the tap water or well water. Bad food can also feed string algae. Back off the feeding and let the fish eat it. Read your food labels and buy food that is less than .07% phosphorous. It's a complicated issue, perhaps I should do a video. 😉

I don’t have the pond set up with auto fill. We have had lots of rain this winter. When the water is in the 40s and less I don’t feed the fish. But I’ll check the food ingredients. I’ll get some barley extract. Thank you.

I will do that today. Great idea!

Those are very low levels, but I am a strong advocate for pond salt.

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I'm glad I covered that. String algae is a valuable plant in the right places, but is balanced by diatoms. Introduce diatoms with Nualgae and salt your pond to 2.1#'s per 100 gals.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens I'll try that. I don't want it all to go but the salt would help the fish also. Keep you posted

This lush California paradise is salted at .21

Hi Sissy, It's easy to be confused with all the different opinions out there. We follow Aquascape's guidelines for wetland construction. It is recommended that there is 800 gallons per hour per Aquablox in the surface area of the wetland. For example, a wetland that has 15 aquablox can handle 800x15=12,000 gallons per hour of max flow. Now, we do recommend that the flow is less than the max flow as the wetland performs better with lower flow.

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It's also a bog. We call them wetlands because of their size and construction.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens ty, good to know. Trying to learn as much as possible here

Intake skims and the wetland filters

Great question! Elephant ear and taro plants share some similarities, but they are actually different plants. Elephant ear plants are members of the Colocasia genus, while taro plants belong to the genus Colocasia esculenta. One of the main differences between elephant ear and taro plants is in their edible portions. Taro plants are primarily grown for their starchy, potato-like root, which is a staple food in many cultures. On the other hand, elephant ear plants are not typically grown for food and do not produce a large, edible root. Another difference between the two plants is in their growth habits. Elephant ear plants are typically larger and more foliage-heavy, while taro plants tend to be shorter and stockier with less leafy growth. Lastly, the leaves of elephant ear and taro plants can look similar, but there are subtle differences. The leaves of elephant ear plants tend to be more heart-shaped, while taro leaves are more arrow-shaped.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens Would regular elephant ear work in a wetland filter? I have lot growing in my yard I seem to get rid of. Thought I might put them to work in the filter

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How many gallons per hour?

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens well I'm making my pond atleast 4000 gallons

At 4000 gallons, you would want to turn it over at least 1x per hour, but if it were my build, I would use multiple pumps and run it combined over at least 8k gph. I like running a pump on the bottom of the pond inside a koi cave to the wetland and an additional pump inside the skimmer to a waterfall that compliments the wetland or biofalls. I have had great success with eh Aquascape Aquasurge pumps for many years. I may have as many as 1000 of them in service or more.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens well I have a aquascape pump that is from 4000 to 8000 gallons But I wasn't sure if its a good pump

Have a look at my latest upload. The pump used on that video is an Aquascape Aquasurge 4000-8000 pump.

The most important thing is to have fun doing it.

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens a healthy, more enjoyable environment for my turtle is number one for me. My fun can take second place 😉😅

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens should I let the filter get established before adding plants or is that mostly a fish rule? Right now its just my turtle in dechlorinated water and a very small amount of some floating plants I plucked out of a local pond. I still need to get some tubing so I can hook up the pump to my "bog/waterfall"

It's all about nutrient. If you plant before adding fish, then the plants rat the food that otherwise would have fed the algae. If you overstock before your plants are mature, then the plants can't keep up with the fish and you'll have green water. Timing is everything, grow your fish population in relation to the plant growth. Make sense?

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens makes sense in theory. But idk how to put it into practice lol probably not many fish going in it. Mainly for my turtle but might throw in something small and fast that I dont care about? If he eats them he eats them. If they live thats fine too but its not a huge pond so I dont wanna overcrowd it. I think its 125 gallons but its not all the way full because I dont want my turtle to climb over the edge and fall to the floor and then free roam the house until I find him lol

Maybe

I think they are listed in the description

I looked. I may have missed it. I’ll check again. thanks

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No. We want our roots to freely grow and absorb as much nitrate and phosphate as possible. Competitive exclusion removes the food source of something you don't want and feeds it to something you do want.

Awesome thank you for the information.

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Sorry about that. I need to work on still shots for b roll. Thanks for the kind input, will try harder and keep you in mind.