What good filtration can do for a pond

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This is what a good filtration can do for you, but it's believing the manufacturers recommendations. First video shows me destroying my clarity. While 20 hours latter shows how a good filtration can deal with issues.

 
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We need to try this again AI seems to not like my train of thought and changes aspects of my text.

This is what a good filtration can do for you, but it's not believing in the manufacturers recommendations is where you will become successful. The First video shows me destroying my clarity. As i added poorly washed peastone to my pond where it is going to act as a filler between the 3/4 and the 1 inch gravel on the shelves above the main drain.
This silted up my water pretty bad so much so i couldnt see a fish at the surface even if there was one. This is the first video that was attached above.

The second video above is recorded the next morning some 20 hours latter. And it shows how a good filtration can deal with issues.. the water has cleared up and I can see to the bottom. But still not 100% back to normal.
 
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And this is the last video to go with this post.
I had done a bead filter backwash 24 prior to adding the dirty peastone to my shelves. Which is the first of these videos.

And 20 hours latter is the second video but what I did not show for those who might have thought the sediment just settled on its own was how much the bead filter actualy pulled out . So this is that video. Between the bead and the bog filter or upflow wetland I believe I have found the perfect combination the bead for mechanical filtration along with a little biological and the bog filter which provides all the biological filtration I need as I have never seen any levels get out of whack even when a large koi died but I could not find them . It wasn't untill a month or so latter I found the intact skeleton.
So here is the video of how to backwash a bead filter my only filter maintenance and how much it pulled from the water.

 

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