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Filtration rate of water inside artificial lake
What is the filtration rate of water inside artificial lake ? I mean what is the period in which the whole water in the lake should be completely filtrated?
I know that the water in the swimming pools should have a complete filtration cycle in 4 or 6 hours. So what about artificial lake ?
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The filtration would best suit in tank
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What filtration would best suit this tank? I have a new 6ft tank and the only place left in the house to put another tank won’t allow me to put any filtration other than above it or in it. (no room behind, under or at the sides for HOB, canisters or sumps) What type of filtration would best suit my purpose. I have lot’s of spare glass and I’m able to cut it and drill holes of any size if that helps.
To help you, the fish that are going it are lake tanganyika cichlids, a breeding colony of Cyathopharynx Furcifer Mbita, 1 male & 6 females. I will be using pool filter sand and large rounded river rocks.
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How To Back Flush Pool Filtration
I think you are set with back washing the pool filtration – What you need to do is get the dirty stuff that is in the pool back to the filter.
Just turning the pump on alone will not get the pool clean. You have to get what is settling at the bottom of the pool swept up and back to the filter somehow. There are three ways to do this: 1) plug in a hose to a suction port (either in the skimmer or a port in the side of the pool) and manually vacuum the bottom of the pool with a cleaning head on the end of a pole. 2) plug a robotic cleaner in and it will do most of the vacuuming for you (robotic cleaners include names like kreepy krauley, navigator, barracuda, shark, etc.) 3) in-floor cleaning heads can do the same job, but it sounds like you don’t have a pool with one of those. If you did, you’d have about 12-18 pop-up heads scattered throughout the bottom of the pool.
The cloudiness in the pool may be caused by a few different things like imbalances in your water chemistry. Typically you will need to add some chemicals and run your filter for a 24 hour period to clear that up.
You may want to think of calling a pool professional to come out just once to help you get started balancing your pool and do an instruct with your equipment. Paying for that will probably save you a bunch of headache and expense in the long run.
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