The New Matala Fitler Close Up

The water comes in through a bulkhead fitting and then a few feet of flexible hose. The hose is there to make cleaning easy. Just use pop the gate valve for the drain and use the hose (with pond water instead of tap water) to hose off the filter pads. Easy, right?

I also cut the left-over bits of Matala into 3 inch cubes and created a small bio-filter after all the regular mats.

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