Super Garden Pond 3.0

After the third dead mouse, I thought maybe it was was time to look into a better filter for my pond. Good pond filters are expensive. My garden pond is only about 200 gallons and I didn't feel like dropping $250 just to keep a little water clean. That doesn't even include the filter.

After three more dead birds and a mole, I decided that mass grave of backyard critters was getting crowded and drained the pond. It was time to get serious about filtration, do some research and, most of all, find out how to do it cheap.

Turns out with a bucket, some sponges, a little PVC and a lot of electrical tape, you can build your very own biological filter. A biological filter is a filter that traps biological material in the filter long enough for beneficial bacteria to build up in side of it and eat it. The beneficial inside the filter will actually clean the water. At least in theory....

So first I gathered some supplies.

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UPDATE

Regulars readers of this blog are probably wondering where the rest of this post is.
I planned on writing instructions and detailing everything I did to create my filter. I even took pictures as I built it. Now I'm just waiting for the for the water to clear up for the before and after pictures. Two months later, I'm still waiting. Sigh...