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Why Pondkeepers Prefer
Water Garden Skimmers
Water garden skimmers keep
pond water clean the easy way.
As I was saying, filtering all this debris out with water garden skimmers BEFORE it settles -- keeps it from decomposing and possibly fouling the water.
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And again, generally water garden skimmers should be used in tandem with a koi pond biological filter system which changes harmful nitrites into harmless nitrates. Now water garden skimmers can be divided into two categories: box and floating skimmers. As opposed to sedimentation filters, which must be installed in a specific gravity-fed area, water garden skimmer filters take away the waste before it drops to the bottom of the pond. The most popular type of water garden skimmer is the box style filter, which is easiest to maintain. |
These filters use either vertical or horizontal filter mats.
Just so you know the horizontal filter mats remain the most popular. Vertical filter mats require constant monitoring and cleaning for proper operation, where the horizontal filter mats require cleaning only about once a month. Water sieves evenly through the horizontal filter mat in the pond skimmer, trapping even smaller debris, and -- unlike the vertical filter mat -- never seriously clogging.
In some cases today's fix-it-fast pond enthusiasts gravitate toward a pool filter that can be retrofitted to their pond. Expecting it to be chemically-controlled and not designed to eliminate the waste that must be treated in a healthy water garden.
Actually you want to avoid using chemical filters for pond-cleaning; you will be disappointed.
Do it right the first time, incorporate such useful features as water garden skimmers and you will enjoy your water garden for many, many years.
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Pond Floating Skimmer
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