Pond Bakki Shower (trickle filter)

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Bakki shower (trickle shower) Pond Filter $500 obo

Complete setup for sale:
- Periha PB-25000 (2)
- 3 buckhorn plastic bins with pvc/abs shower assembly
- ~100pc of Bacteria House bio media

Filter was used for about 1 year before we filled in our 2500 gallon pond and no longer have use for this setup. Spare Periha pump (willing to part out).

video of it in use:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Bavx8wHg_0I?feature=share
(Temp use shown. You can use flex PVC and be more discrete with the inlet pipe)
PM for more pictures.

“After tumbling over the media it leaves the top tray through a grid or a series of holes drilled in its bottom. It then cascades in a similar manner over the media in the lower trays and finally collects in a the bottom tray from where it returns to the pond by gravity.
The advantage of this type of filter is that the water becomes highly aerated as it cascades down which helps to gas off some of the ammonia instead of it being converted to nitrite and then to nitrate by the normal nitrifying bugs (nitrosomonas and nitrobacter). To some extent, this reduces the the amount of nitrate that they would otherwise have produced but the ammonia that isn’t gassed off in this way still ends up as nitrate…”
More info about bakki showers:
https://pin.it/1owstpV
https://koiorganisationinternational.org/koi-articles/comparing-trickle-towers-bakki-showers
 

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