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hello today i'm out here
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going to do some maintenance on my pond
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filter out here which is my uh sitting
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right behind me which is in the
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blue uh barrel right there which is my
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pond uh
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swirl filter that i uh did it's a d do
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it yourself
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project that i did i did a previous
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video on it uh feel free to go
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go through the list i'll probably link
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leave a link down below
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that way you can check that out and
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check that out but today i'm gonna be
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doing some maintenance on it uh which
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i'm gonna be basically uh
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cleaning it out getting some gunk out of
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there uh so basically i have my little
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uh
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pipe and then i also have a little sock
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that i'm gonna see
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what what stuff i get out of there so
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let's go ahead and clean my filter
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so first things first what i do need to
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do is i do need to remove the cover
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uh which is this thing right here so let
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me go ahead and remove that
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uh nice and tight i did drill a hole on
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top of this just to remove some air
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when it does come up with uh some water
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so i'm gonna go ahead and remove this i
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can
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there we go then you guys can remove
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oops
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just need to remove the lid right there
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and that's the inside
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that's the inside of my swirl filter let
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me give you a
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let me give you a close look in there
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and what i do have in there i do have
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some
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of the um media in there uh
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uh what's that called the um oh boy
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i forgot the name of the the of the
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media but it's this uh
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it's this uh this this kind of media
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i put a bunch in there and that kind of
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collects the gunk
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and whatnot
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okay sorry about that plane was going
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overhead but basically i
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totally forget the name of the media if
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you do know the name of the media
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please put that down below i think it's
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like k1 something or something
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but it's just basically something i put
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in there
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looking at some other videos on how to
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make a swirl filter some people have
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used this which is good to actually
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collect the gunk
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um if you look in if you see let me zoom
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in a little bit
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you see all how it's like a little dirty
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in there which is one thing i'm trying
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to do to actually
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clean that out so let me let me go and
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turn off my uh
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pump and let's get this cleaned out okay
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so now i do got the uh
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the filter turned off i unplugged the
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pump and all i need to do
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is i'm gonna take my little sticker
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right here which is basically a pipe
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which i
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use to redirect the water flow to a
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different area rather than right by
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my pump filter uh so i'm going to go
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ahead and all and all i'm going to do is
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basically go in here
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and stir around the media get all the
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gunk out of the spots
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being careful not to mess with the um
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outlet outlet stuff so let me just go
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ahead and go in there and
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mix it up a little bit get more of the
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particles into the water as opposed to
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being in the media so give a little
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swirl on that
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mix mix mix
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and then all that should be drained out
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when i drain it
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and that should go into the sock which
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i'll show you as that uh
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after that all drains uh not doing it
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this way this also will give me a chance
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to do a bigger
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water change on this pond because
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basically i'll be emptying out this uh
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this tub this barrel and that would also
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decrease the water in there and
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then all i need to do is pump in some
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fresh water from the
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system from the faucet which is
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running through my whole house water
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filters i don't have to worry about the
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chlorine in it
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uh this i do have on an automatic water
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change system where it changes every day
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i pump enough like four gallons of fresh
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water in here
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and that keeps it nice and fresh um i do
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need to do some other
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maintenance on this pond but i'm going
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to probably save that for another day
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but right now i'm just focusing on the
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swirl filter itself
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uh definitely take a look at some videos
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on the swirl filters i think it's a neat
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little
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filter especially for this pond
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primarily because it basically is
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supposed to filter out all the large
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particles
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down to the bottom to be drained out
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later
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okay so that should be enough of the
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mixing i'm going to let that sit
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for a little bit and then get prepared
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for the draining
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okay so now i'm all set to actually get
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this drained out
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as you can see i have my pipe which is
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connected to the
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filter and then i have it kind of going
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that way that way it's away from the
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filter and that way it doesn't pull
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close to the pond
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and now i need to do is just switch on
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the uh
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i just need to open up the valve and
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then the water will drain out of the
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filter so let me go ahead and do that um
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i'm going to open that up to look there
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we go
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so it's opened up and it is now draining
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um while it drains i'm going to go over
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this uh
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scroll filter a little bit uh basically
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the uh basically the water is
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kind of pumped into the filter and then
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kind of swirls around a circle
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upwards where the drain is and then as
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at that
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as that goes up the particulates in the
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water
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are supposed to drain down to the bottom
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and settle down on the bottom
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uh below where the inlet is and then
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basically on the bottom there's a pipe
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with holes actually to remove those
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particulates
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um as you can see right now the water is
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draining
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through that uh sock right there i'm
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just doing that i don't normally do it
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with the sock
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i'm just doing with the sock right now
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just to see
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the particulates and how well it is
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being removed
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um i could see a bunch of particulates
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on the opening of the
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sock which shows that it is working but
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afterwards i will show that and
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see how well this is removing the
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particulates out of the
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filter um also while i'm waiting for
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this
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so anyways we can give this some time
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drain out and after it's
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afterwards done draining i'm going to
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close back up and see
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how well the particulates are being
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filtered out using this filter
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so stay tuned
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okay so now the filter is uh all drained
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out
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and now i need to do is close the drain
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back
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up
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and then i'm ready to actually pretty
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much turn the filter on and
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get the filter turned back on but first
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i just want to give you a quick look
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of the inside let me get finagle my way
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in here
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as you can see you can see the two
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outlets i have in there
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both using pvc with unisils
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and you see all the k1 media in there
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which you can't really go okay you can
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see the inlet as
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where the water goes into if you look on
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the right hand side you'll see that
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white pipe right there
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which is kind of angled towards the wall
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that way when the water comes in it just
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swirls around
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uh so basically that's the inside so let
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me go ahead and turn my pump back on
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and that is the water level of the pond
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right now
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and so let me go ahead and turn the
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water uh pump back on
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okay so i got the water pump turned back
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on and the water
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should be flowing in there again and
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filling up
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the filter i don't know if you can see
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it well
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uh but the water is going in there
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and the water will all go back into the
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filter so
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and then start doing this pond again
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so let me go ahead and let this run and
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we'll go from there
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well that's doing that i'm gonna go
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ahead and get the sock
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and just to see how well the filter did
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indeed uh
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basically filter out the debris so let
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me undo that
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remove the pipe yeah i'll remove the
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sock first
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and then you can see how well
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the debris has been all filtered out
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and it does look pretty nasty in there
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let me see if i can actually get a view
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of it it doesn't look pretty nasty in
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there
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as you can see from all the water
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flowing out and this of course is the
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side where all the water was flowing out
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so i'm assuming there's a lot more dirt
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on the bottom there
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this is definitely ugly looking as you
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can see
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as all the gunk
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and some snails in there as well but you
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can see all the gunk that's in there
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definitely not a pretty sight
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and then of course is the inside of what
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used to be a nice clean
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white sock now filled with gunk from the
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pond
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so definitely doing its job
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and of course look at that gunky side
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you actually see big chunks of it there
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uh definitely not gonna use the sock
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again so that sock is gonna
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eventually go in the trash uh so i'm
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gonna let this run well go wash my hands
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[Music]
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do
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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okay so i got the uh pond filter all up
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and running fully now
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uh it's full as you can see the water
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level on the pond is decreased uh
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primarily by about 13 gallons because
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that's the size of the barrel
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uh as you can see over here it is nice
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and full again
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up up above where the uh outlets go
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back into my pond and the next thing i
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just need to do now
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is do some cleaning on the pipes in here
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and basically refill
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it back up which i'm going to go ahead
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and do that shortly uh so
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i'm going to get my phone and get the
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water running again that way you get
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more water in here again
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okay so i got the filter back up and
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running i got it all closed up and
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cleaned out
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our water is being refilled as we speak
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and this is all nice and set if you do
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want to learn more about this do
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yourself pawn swirl filter that i did
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definitely check out my video on it and
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take a look at it
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uh this is something i picked up
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watching some youtube videos from pond
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builders
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i don't have i i'll probably try to
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include a few links to those as well
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that way you can learn more on that as
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well so anyways
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as usual keep researching keep learning
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and have a great day
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