Assembly of the large Matala Biosteps filter—unaided by anything but the pretty-bad picture on the box—the instructions had a way of leapfrogging over the critical bit, like, which is the FRONT of this thing?—went fairly well.
And it did run nicely, and I have clear water.
Backflushing, however, poured everything back into the pond.
We have now come to our senses and realized that the most obvious thing, after we figured out all the rest of the really arcane stuff correctly—is to make the bottom hole the drain, and the TOP hole the inflow.
It was very wet and soupy getting this corrected.
That is all.
I can’t believe I did that. I was mapping the water flow in my mind, and took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
Well, no wonder. Albuquerque doesn’t have enough water to flow anywhere 🙂
Point to pholy!
Lol!
Wet and soupy with no photos? How are you going to get blackmailed at that rate? Not to mention the Foul Bribery which is also not happening!
Fowl Bribery? I like chicken….
I also saw a very cute Duck Running video on YouTube. (Little duckling runs after master, who’s teasing.)
Yes, Walt gets extra points for that one. Or the equivalent value in carrots.
I can haz Peking Duck? or just roast duck? Mmmmm.
Ahem. I meant Pholy. Pholy gets the points and carrots.
Oh heck, give points and carrots to Walt too, I’m not *that* stingy or unneighborly.
…Attempting to extract foot…
Me? I’m not that fond of carrots, or Albuquerque for that matter (just kidding Albuquerquesians).
As for drains, I have enough trouble with cars. Is it rubber side up, shiny side down; or shiny side down, rubber side up?
Whichever, I’m not saving you from your pholly. Cat season!
😉
Cookies work for children, a previous favor for adults, but what do you use to Bribe a duck?
Why a duck? (Chico Marx in “The Cocoanuts”)
Why Not?
Because it was there.
Bread. Lots of it.
And, speaking of ducks:
http://zanylol.com/ducks.html
God is in the details! But those ducks will get you every time. Ours were very fond of oatmeal cookies! But heaven to them was the Gypsy Moth Invasion!
Too bad the Japanese studios never created a duck kaiju — much better to battle Mothra with than Godzilla!