What a great channel. Ive searched for pond filtration before and never found you. No idea why. Subscription added!

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

I hope you like it here. 😊👍

Love your channel Kev!!!

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊👍

Building my first pond and just binged a bunch of your videos! Easy to understand and follow! Beautiful ponds! Subscription earned my friend!

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!😊👍

@MrJmhess77

Ай бұрын

you and me both

Thank you so much for your step by step explanation; I had a very small pond years ago and am relearning all this. Just bought a 20 gallon tub to create my first bog filter for my little preformed pond, will make a little short stream from filter to pond, and your videos are giving me the confidence to do it! Getting nothing else done! :) Like Randy said earlier, binge watching all your videos. And your pond is breathtakingly beautiful!

@Ozponds

22 күн бұрын

I hope you create something that brings you tons of joy 😊👍

@KathySousa-ik2nn

22 күн бұрын

Thank you! It is already! 🐠

Man ,great channel to find .. Havnt done a pond in many years .. finally got it done , and built myself a bog filter today too

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

Nice work 👍

happy new year to you and all your subscribers🎉🎉

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Same to you 🍻👍

I really like this concrete stock tank. Has a nice charm to it. Happy 2024 !

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Dave. You too 🍻👍

Happy New Year, Kev! Im building 3 bog filters for a 15,000 liter pond im constructing, and I refer to your videos constantly! Thank you again, so much! Peace, Rich. Santa Cruz, Ca

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Happy New Year Rich 🍻👍

Thank you for all your videos, my Dad made a pond, just under a year before he passed away. It soon turned pea-green, so I started looking for filter options. Your videos came up during my searches - your calming presentations are perfect for me to follow. I created a mk1 'proof of concept' using a 25litre bucket and kitchen sink drain for a 1000litre (ish) pond (a mere puddle compared to your works of art) 18months ago, based on your videos. It epically transformed the water within about 4 weeks. I've now got most of the stuff to make my mk2, using a 80litre good quality garden dustbin (it seems really hard to find a 100litre good quality bucket here in the UK) this is just so I don't have to dismantle/clean the 25litre bucket every 4-6 weeks lol. I'm not lazy, I'm just economical with my energy. Honest. This time I am certainly adding a drain point at the bottom! Being able to spot the tiny white label on the pump from 10 feet away is amazing, compared to only being able to see the fish when they were feeding off the pea-green surface - it is like night and day difference. Thank you, for doing what you do, for doing it how you do and for sharing what you do for simpletons like myself to follow. I hope you and yours have a superb holiday season and a great new year. Thank you again.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words. Hearing stories like this makes doing videos so rewarding. I hope you and your family also have a great holiday season. I’m so glad you get to enjoy your Dads pond 😊👍

@Chilled_Mackers

5 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds As I am now a live-in-carer for my Mum, I am certainly doing my best to keep the house functioning and the garden presentable. Having your superb videos to help with the pond is a massive help. One other 'problem' we encounter with the pond is 'Nelly the Elephant' (ha, my Dad named the water feature thing) keeps getting clogged up with tiny dark red/brown 'worms' - gazzillions of them. Nelly is a plastic elephant, fed by a pump and water comes out of the trunk. The worms are tiny, less than 3/8" 10mm long at the absolute most. From a distance, it looks like one gooey mass which builds up and pretty much stops the flow of water. I clear the tubes when it happens and it will take a couple months to come back. I added some sticklebacks and roach to the pond to compliment the carp which slowed it down. It doesn't happen during the winter. Just curious if you have ever heard of such a thing? Not sure if they are a lavae or bloodworms. I fix classic cars, I'm not a worm guy. I totally understand if you do not have these things in your country.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

I’m not sure what the worms are. I would assume you don’t need to feed the fish if they are present.

@adrianzmajla4844

5 ай бұрын

Possibly Tubifex worms? They like to live in drainage water, sewers and ditches etc. Water birds spread them on their travel. ​@UkMackers

@adrianzmajla4844

5 ай бұрын

And yes they clump together.

Hi, Kev! Glad to see another vid! I've been watching long enough so when you show the different ponds in your yard I already know where the bog filters, pumps, and pipes are and how you built and maintain them... haha

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support mate😊👍. Most people don’t watch all the videos.

@zebrobertson

5 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds Your content is always useful and easy to follow... much appreciated!

@muzzhaji

5 ай бұрын

​@Ozponds I just used your videos to create my pond. I also did the bog filter . I'm from India so it was interesting to set up.

Kev Bog filters are effective and very easy to clean I'm converted based on my experience with NOW crystal clear water

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Once you go bog you never go back 👍

Hey Kev, I really enjoy your videos and plan to make a bog filter pond sooner now, because I just learned something that you may want to mention to your viewers. I wanted to make a pond that would be big enough for my kids to use as a small pool, so the cost of the liner was preventing me from moving forward. But, I remembered that we have clay soil here where I live, and so I asked a friend of mine who is a soil engineer and he said it shouldn’t be much of a problem to go without the heavy duty pond liner. I have an additional advantage as well, I am in the country and pay for Canal water to service my house. There’s no meter and it’s gravity fed, so if I lose a little bit more water than expected, it doesn’t cost me a dime.

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Great to hear 👍

Thank you

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

🍻👍

like your video's, and i believe that bog filter are great for natural pond. Myself i got a 57000 liter koi pond and dont think a bog filter can take this over. Its not that it it can not filter it, but it has to be extreemly big to do the same as my "modern filter with modern materials".

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

Stick to whatever works for you 👍

Nice vid, thanks for sharing. The stock tank seems to be filled rather high with substrate, curious on the reason.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

It has a false bottom kind of like an underground filter in an aquarium. The idea is that water can flow all around the substrate, sort of like in a river. It should act as additional filtration so I can really keep lots of fish in this pond.

Thank you so much for all the good advice. Just a question; is there any type of stones/bricks/rocks that should not be used in the barrel? I was thinking that the material could disperse some kind of chemicals in case it is not natural rocks. I would like to decrease the overall weight. Stones of light concrete or leca blocks (if it is called so in English) would decrease the weight considerably and also provide more surface.

@Ozponds

29 күн бұрын

I use anything I can get. It’s just surface area we are after.

Just finished with DIY bog filter for only 600L pond. Not gonna win an award for prettiest (probably the ugliest) but wanted to get the basics right. I gotta admit my DIY skill was very limited and half of steps were unfamiliar, so at least I learnt something new. I was most afraid of getting uniseal step wrong as I couldn't find them from Bunnings and instead bought them from eBay. I would need to wait another week if I make a mistake. Huge thanks for convincing me to DIY a bog filter. Sub earned! (BTW I'm also from SE suburb, likely closer to Melb)

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

Well done for giving it a go 👍

thanks much

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome

Thank you so much for all the amazing videos! I started my pond journey with David's organic pool pdf. So i have a air pump to move the water. So far my regeneration zone is not large enough and it all turned green here in Phoenix AZ. I do not have enough room to expand it so i was hoping use hybrid version of your bog filter design. So i was wondering if I can make your bog filter with this type of pump? or does it not have enough pressure? My idea was to pump water from the bottom of the pond with an air lift to bog filter and it will fall in to into a larger diameter pipe (not connected) that goes to the bottom of false bottom of the bog filter, water will rise as it is being filled in the bog filter and the water will return to the pond with the water fall effect back in to the pond being lower than the water air pump delivering the water to the bog. Wow I hope that makes sense. Thank you again for all that you do for this DIY community!

@Ozponds

4 ай бұрын

Theoretically I think it could work. The issue I see is that you want to get the flow rate through the bog within a ball park figure. A variable speed pump just makes it so easy to adjust and find optimal flow. You could turn it off when you swim as to have no electricity inside the water if that’s the concern.

I just thought I would share I have purchased the PDF checklist for the cost of a coffee from StarBucks and it was the best little investment I have made so far for my first "pond building adventure". I went to Home Depot tonight after work with my PDF and got everything I needed to build the bog starting tomm. Thanks Kev! Glad I made the purchase as it's going to help a ton! Tip: I used one of these online volume calculators to do all the math for me. I'm an artist/creative so I love math for what it is/does but hate doing it. HA HA! Happy Ponding 🐟

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing mate 😊👍. Good luck with the build.

Hi Kev , I really like this video it is very easy to understand. The mistake I made on my last bog filter was using invasive plants on the top of it. They completely took over and the flow stopped and overflowed whilst I was on holiday. My pump fell over and luckily stopped whilst my fish still had 6 inches of water. They were all alive when I came back home because of a vast amount of water lettice I had that reduced the ammonia and nitrates . Another mistake was putting the pump at the bottom of the pond and not putting in a T piece to stop back flow. So if I follow this video to the letter when spring comes I should be ok. My pump is very strong though 4500 Litres per hour . My pond holds about 1200 litres. I was going to buy an old wooden whisky barrel for the bog filter .It is said to hold 200 litres of water and be water tight. So if I follow your advice , I could use an overflow system because of the pump being too strong ? I need to stop the pump pulling in baby fish , please could you explain a bit more the type of cloth you used over the pump and how you tied it on to the pump. Thanks very much. 😊🐟🐠🐡🐋🐔🐝🌻☀️🤶🎅

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Yes you could direct the excess flow out through the breather pipe, over the surface of the bog. Or you could divert the flow to some underwater, or surface jets to help with circulation. The cloth of the pump was regular shade cloth (like used in the garden). I simply folded it around the intake part of the pump (the cage is still on) and used cable ties to secure it in place. Hope that helps. Have a great New Year 😊

@suzannemoran7281

5 ай бұрын

Yes that helps a lot . Thank you Kev. Have a fantastic new year. I must add that your ponds are becoming more beautiful every year . ❤

Great video! Lots of useful information and straight to the point. I'm having trouble understanding the, "breather pipe" that prevents siphoning. It seems like it's just an open T and water being pumped down to the bottom of the bog would just escape rapidly on the way in from the pond. When the bog is being used and water is being pumped to the bottom of it. How does it not escape out of the breather tube? Thanks!

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes it does and you might need to add an elbow fitting and a vertical pipe.

@ryanwood439

2 ай бұрын

​@@Ozpondsthanks for the quick response! I still don't understand. If the pump is supplying enough pressure to push water up through the bog, how does it not? Just find the easiest way out through the breather tube and 100% of it. Just rush out of that open pipe. How can it be a pressurized system in any way if there's an equal size pipe just open there? What about another option like a backflow valve?

@Ozponds

2 ай бұрын

It just works. Try it. Or do it another way you think will work. I don’t know how to explain it adequately but I’ve got many bog filters in use.

Great video, have watched it a number of times when making my own. I’m not sure if I have the glow rate right, bog filter is 75 litres, free standing pond is 440 litres and flow rate is 360 lph is the flow rate too much?

@Ozponds

4 ай бұрын

No it’s fine 👍

Thanks for another inspirational vid Kev! I wanted to get your opinion - I have a 100L pot pond with ~10 white cloud minnows and a 20L bog filter on top following your design. A canister filter powers it. I want to temporarily remove the bog for some modifications, any chance of a cycle crash from this? The canister will remain in place

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

You’ll be fine 👍

Happy New Year Kev! I installed a bog filter 6 months ago and the water is sparkling clear. Unfortunately, I am having a problem with green moss on all the sides of the pond. Do you have any ideas how I can reduce the moss growth? I am so thankful for your great videos and I have learned so much. Thanks again Kev 😎

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Algae or moss? My first piece of advice for algae in a new pond is always patience. You can scroll through my previous videos and see lots of different things I’ve tried over the years. Algaecides, encouraging good algae, beneficial bacteria, hydrogen peroxide. Every pond is a bit different so you kind of need to find the solution that works best for you. Hopefully those videos will help you make a more informed choice 👍

@alanzurliene461

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Kev I will cruise through your previous videos. It is winter here where I live so I will prepare for a Spring solution. @@Ozponds

Excellent advice. I'm probably going to need a new pump in the next few months. It's always good to remember not to put it on the bottom of the pond. Also, I love my ugly bog filter!

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

What sort of pump will you get?

@MandyJane123700

5 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds I've been using a pool filter pump (because I already had it), but I think when this one wears out I will get a proper pond pump. I probably need one about the same size as the one you used in this video. My pond is 300 gallons, so that's pretty close to 900 liters.

@Sea-cucumber1151

5 ай бұрын

I have been using the tetra ( big green) solid handling pond pump. I have had ponds for 27 years now or so….It doesn’t clog and the suction stays even. In the other ones if they clog in an area the suction is greater on the other side. So sadly I had baby turtles get their legs sucked up and they drowned. I have never had that happen with the tetra solid handling one. Only time I use the others is if the water is sucked somewhere else like in a skimmer etc. I have one that sucks from the skimmer to the bog and the tetra one sucks directly from the pond to the filter then bog. That way I have double the cleaning, the bog and the filter but it all still flows up through the bog. Just. Thought. Never had problems with them.

@Sea-cucumber1151

5 ай бұрын

And far less maintenance on the pump, no net bag is needed. They are amazing.

@MandyJane123700

5 ай бұрын

@@Sea-cucumber1151 I will look into getting one of those. I don't know anything about which brands and styles of pond pumps are good.

Thanks for the good videos kev. quick question, i was thinking about fabrication a bog filter but have iot in 2 stages, going through mechanical filtration first then into a bog filter before back into the pond. would you think this would be pointless and the bog filter alone would suffice?

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

I’m actually thinking of making a video on this. It really depends on your goals if you want the pond super clean the more filtration the better.

@deansiddall3729

5 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds. i want what would be best for the fish really but clean is nice also. i am a fabricator so i was thinking i should just make an all in one, didn't know if there would be a down side to it. thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

No downside only upside 👍

Just put my bog in a barrel together, thanks to you. Quick question, do you still need the breather pipe if you installed a check valve from the pump? I put my breather pipe too low and now just want to cap it, figuring I’m fine since I have a check valve anyways.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

If the check valve works you’re good.

@adrianzmajla4844

5 ай бұрын

Check valve will eventually fail.

Hi there. Excellent video. Just a question, is there a flow rate you would consider 'too slow'?

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

I’m sure I’d know it if I saw it. I’m not sure how I would explain it. 🤔

@edgardoolivera5721

3 ай бұрын

I am doing a bog filter following your videos for a 1600ltrs pond. So I put 160 LTRs water in a tank to know where to cut it. And then drained the water with the pump I have. It took 40 minutes to get rid of the 160 LTRs...will that do or bigger pump? Thanks.

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

I’d give it a try and see what happens. If you already have that pump it doesn’t cost you anything to try. Changing the pump over in the future is easy if necessary.

@edgardoolivera5721

3 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds Will do. Thanks a lot for your time

Kev, when the filter is operating and there is some resistance to the water flowing into the bottom of the filter, what stops it taking the easy path out through the breather?

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

I’m not sure exactly. If you watch when the pond was built I actually talked a bit more about the breather pipe and how you can add a vertical pipe if too much water comes out the breather. For some reason the water prefers going down the straight pipe into the base of the filter as opposed to taking a 90degree turn. But if the filter is becoming clogged and it’s hard for the water to pass through the media in the bog more water will definitely come out the breather. I’m sure there’s a way it could be calculated but it’s too much for my brain.

@adrianzmajla4844

5 ай бұрын

​@@OzpondsNormally I could explain this, HAHA, but on this night at this time? I'm too boggy. Ha pun intended, happy new year everyone.

Has anyone tried carniverous plants like Utricularia or venus fly traps in a bog filter? If you had smaller stone toward the top, and the proper substrate on top of that, I think it would create the right conditions. The only thing I'm concerned about is there might be too much nutrients for them.

Can you use a bog filter for a backyard swimming pool?

@Ozponds

23 күн бұрын

Yeap

So if i used a barrel/water butt as a bog filter. To clean it would just be a case of opening the valve to empty it whilst filling the barrel with water rinsing it through until the water coming out is clear? If that makes sense 😂 thanks

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Sounds good 👍

Love your videos do you get everything for the bog filter from Bunnings

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

You can get most of it from Bunnings. Not the uniseals, olive barrel and I wouldn’t buy the pump there. But all the plumbing- yes.

@Fredward1986

5 ай бұрын

Be careful when you buy PVC pipe and fittings from normal hardware stores as they usually sell DWV pipe which is not compatible with PVC pressure pipe fittings and uniseals. I bought pipe, elbows, tees from Bunnings then ordered a tap/uniseal online, they are different OD's even though they are all 32mm.

@Fredward1986

5 ай бұрын

Be careful when you buy PVC pipe and fittings from normal hardware stores as they usually sell DWV pipe which is not compatible with PVC pressure pipe fittings and uniseals. I bought pipe, elbows, tees from Bunnings then ordered a tap/uniseal online, they are different OD's even though they are all 32mm.

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Bunnings also sell pressure pipe. Good tip though, household plumbing (DWV) is different to irrigation (pressure). You can use either for the bog filter but it will change the uniseal needed. Rob bobs backyard aquaponic shop has a great little chart that shows what uniseal you need for the different pipes and sizes.

@Fredward1986

5 ай бұрын

@@Ozponds You must have different stock in AU compared to NZ, they only had DWV in my Bunnings and it was double the price I ended up paying for pressure pipe and fittings from an online retailer. If anyone from NZ reads this, try irrigation express (does limit you to 1m lengths of pipe). Also Kev, one day I'd love to see more detail about how you fit your flexible hose to the pressure pipe. I know you sort of explained it in this video but I couldn't find the right fittings. I ended up putting an elbow on the top of the downpipe and jammed the 25mm hose in. It does work but your solution looks cleaner.

I have a koi pond about 8,000 gallons that goes to a 55 gallon sand filter that my brother made pump is round 4500 I got another pump 5,000 gph to old smaller pond about 4x4x12 that is big filter got 1inch pipe along bottom with holes drilled in got it tee off goes to 20 gallon barrel bottom fed with same rock set as you show that spills into waterfall into bog then bog spills into big pond. Also have big barrel split to feed 20 gallon barrel all have flow valves. Big has around 8 inches of pea gravel and lava rocks also 20 gallon barrel plus filter and bio balls. Only problem is I can't drain my bog don't really want to dig an 8ft long trench pond also has concrete bottom with lots of rocks. Can I get any suggestions with pictures on how to clean maintain it please, also put liner on top of concrete. Thanks

@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

Did you check out my other bog filter vids?

@kennethmoore117

5 ай бұрын

I seen a brief note about it but I'm little slow to catch on need little more direction some more equipment more specific to my dilemma don't have much imagination.

@kennethmoore117

5 ай бұрын

I do find your videos very helpful

Oz I just built a bog but where the water goes into the bottom of the bog I noticed lots off air bubbles only at one end at the intake. Is that a bad thing ?

@Ozponds

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think so. Probably just air getting sucked in via the breather pipe.

@overcomer8993

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

What can ypu do to keep frogs and snakes away from above grpund ponds

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Remove the pond.

I need help. My pond water coming out from the breather pipe before it going to the filter

@Ozponds

3 ай бұрын

Add a vertical pipe. 👍

I paid for the PDF but never received it.

@Ozponds

14 күн бұрын

If you aren’t re-directed when you pay you need to send me an email. Follow the instructions on the website and I’ll fix it up for you 👍. I can’t do it from KZread.

I don't understand the diagram. It looks to me like water would stop rising through the filter medium, as soon as it became easier for it to just exit directly from the breather pipe onto the top of the bog. Edit. Ah...I was thinking of the pond being dug into the ground, and the barrel being sat on top of it.

@_big_man_69_

Ай бұрын

I'm still confused by this

@peterpullen958

29 күн бұрын

Inlet piped water is under pressure.

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@Ozponds

5 ай бұрын

🍻

*Promo sm* 🏃

@Ozponds

4 ай бұрын

Not sure what that means..but thanks for the comment 🍻

rewatching this. i wish i'd subscribed earlier. we put our filter right at the bottom, yes muck get's stuck to it a lot...and once our outlet was attached to a flimsy metal to hold it in place and all our water drained and 98% of our koi we had for over 10 years died. i was so furious with my Dad (the koi pond is really his baby) Gonna change a lot of things this summer including adding a bog filter.

@Ozponds

Ай бұрын

Maybe an intake bay or skimmer also.

Thank you

@Ozponds

4 ай бұрын

👍