Pre-filter basket

The green slimy material seen here caught by this basket is a type of algae called Dinobryon. Dinobryon is the # 1 algae that municipal water supply providers constantly battle in the warmer months. It is a sticky stringy algae that likes to bind to itself. As you can see this unit removes this material from the pond whereas other smaller screened filters and automated ones will get clogged and use quantities of water constantly in backwashing themselves repeatedly. You need to ask yourself will that solenoid that is automatically opening and closing to constantly backwash your filter ever fail sometime in the early morning after you’ve left for work or the afternoon while you’re on the 9th hole for some Evian spritzer or, on that 2 to 3 day Quick vacation.? Were not saying that our AWESOME, quality and sturdily built prefilter won’t clog if you neglect servicing it but, at least you have the surface area available to catch and remove stuff you don’t want in your pond while still maintaining pump function. The worst thing that would happen if this gets clogged is your waterfall will slow down, not drain your pond. We recommend dumping and cleaning out the basket once a week. This is an efficient way to remove any leaves, bugs, debris that is the purpose of your bottom drain. Hello, McFly that’s why you have a bottom drain to remove crap off the floor of your pond.

This is the standard weekly collection During warm sun filled months. If this type of algae and other are not removed it will be emulsified by your pump and multiply in your biofilter and pond. So, get one of these prefilters in your System now Before, the pondgod comes to his senses and realizes how much work and a pain in the butt it is dealing with pre-Madonna welders to make the basket even though he spent hours making Drawings, molds and models for them to follow. This product is not mass-produced it is made one at a time by us. We stand behind our product..