How to Set Up a Bog Filter? Know-How to Build It in a Pond

A bog filter can ensure the quality of water for the living in a pond. It’s a tiny, secondary reservoir that’s typically 10-20% of the main water site’s size. You can set up the bog filter either inside or even outside the actual pond.

You need to link the bog filter to the primary pond by a water circulation system including pipes and a pump, whether it is positioned within or outside. Plants eliminate nutrients from the water. It passes through the bog filter, and the ecologically filtered water is restored to the main pond.

Setting up a bog filter is too hard?

Not at all, this is an effective and easy way to make a bog filter in a small pond like in your gardening site. Anyone can set up a bog filter for a pond easily by following some easy steps including

1. Selection of Installation

At the very beginning, it is necessary to fix a place for the bog. A suitable place is crucial for the bog. It must be beside the pond. Flouring is required in a selected place. The water level of the main pond must be assuaged at least 6 inches by a pump or garden hose.

2. Leveling the Depth

In this step, it is required to dig up to a depth of 2 feet 3 inches under soil level in the bog site. Between the bog and the pond, create a ridge of dirt that is 3 inches lower than the pond’s regular water level.

3. Plain Sailing

Fold the pond liner back into the hole or cut out the part of a preformed liner that is between the pond and bog. Place a rubber liner in the bog so that it covers the bottom and overlaps the sides by about afoot. Smooth out as many wrinkles as possible and cement the bog and pond liners together.

4. Pump Setting

Place the pump at the farthest portion of the pond as from the bog. Connect the pump to the bog by running flexible tubing down the pond’s bottom.

5.   Build PVC Pipe

Assemble a manifold out of drilled PVC pipe with pipes spaced 2 to 3 feet in between to cover the whole bottom of the bog. T-connectors are used to join 2-foot lengths of solid PVC pipe in a straight line. T-connectors should all be facing the same way. One end of the flexible tubing should be fitted with a slip connection, while the other end should be capped.

6. Piping in Right Shaped

At each T-pipe, insert a perforation tube that is the same length as the bog. Make sure the perforations on the perforated pipe are pointing up. A single perforated pipe may feed a bog that is less than 3 feet across.

7. Connecting PVC

Sweep elbows should be used to connect standpipes to the end of each PVC pipe. 11 inches off the ground, cut the standpipes. Cleanouts with threaded caps should be attached to the top of each standpipe. Connect the flexible tubing to the inlet of the manifold and place it in the bog.

8. Dry-laid wall

Between both the bog and the pond, lay a row of 8-inch blocks without mortar. Cut a hole in the bottom of one of the blocks and place it over the flexible tubing that connects the pond and the bog. To construct a dry-laid wall 12 inches tall, top with a row of ornate 4-inch blocks.

9. Check leaks of Manifold

Turn on the pump and check the manifold for leaks. Aim for an equal distribution of water. Switch the pump off.

10.  Time to set Plants

Pea gravel should be washed and shoveled into the bog until it is half-filled. Plants should be arranged in a nice pattern on top of the gravel. Remove the plants from the container while maintaining the root ball. Place the plants on top of the pea gravel and carefully shovel pea gravel over them until the standpipes are covered. As needed, lift or dig in the plants so that the root ball is at the top of the gravel.

11. Activation

Activate your pump. Refill the pond with water until it is slightly below the level of the bog’s soil. Keep an eye on the bog as it fills. If the water level in the bog climbs over the gravel layer, stretch the top row of blocks gradually.

Bog filters provide several benefits to the ardent water gardener in addition to water purification. Bog filters vastly expand planting possibilities and provide a rewarding endeavor that complements an existing water garden.

 Materials you need to build bog filter

1. PVC and Filtration System Components
2. Various Bog Plants
3. Pea gravel of size ⅜ ( Changeable depends on the size of a pond)
4. Padded carpet
5. Butyl Rubber.

Final Verdict

You can alter the basic structure however you want, however you feel suits you best. Existing ponds may be modified with bog filters by raising the bog above the main pond and connecting the bog and pond with a streambed or pipe (they don’t even have to be close).

Create a bog island, convert a waterfall filter, utilize oak barrels or ceramic pottery bog filters, or establish a bog in the corner of an existing pond – you are limited only by your imagination.

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