Hi All,
Well at last, here is a few photo's of my Bakki Shower running on my deck as demo, had some boffins here and they were quite impressed.
The veggie bags act as a noise suppressor as this thing kicks up a racket, and they also stop the splashing.

Dit lyk goed Neville, is daar 'n rede hoekom jy die spasies tussen bakke nie kleiner gemaak het nie, wind en weer kan 'n rol speel afhangande van set-up

Hi Bobby, dankie vir jou antwoord.

Dis maar seker hoe prototipes gaan jong, ek sal dit definitief effe kleiner maak, soos jy se die wind ens.

Die eerste ry water val darem redelik ver van die kant van die volgende bak af en sal dit n taamlike sterk wind kan hanteer. Die regte ding is natuurlik om vir dit antisplash en wind protection flaps op te sit wat in my agterkop is. Net nie genoeg tyd gehad die een is op pad na Durban. Hierdie een is definetief nie gebou met die Kaapse winde in gedagte nie, ek neem kennis.

Daar is soveel verskillende maniere hoe die dink gedoen kan word en ek glo elke een sal maar verskil, solank die prinsiep daar bly. Ek voorsien dat ons hom nog met gemak kan opneem na 6 bakke en ook kan verminder na 2 bakke, regtig baie opsies. DAn ook nog die verskillende tipes en hoeveelhede media ne.

Ja jy kan seker met gemak extra een in sit, ek sien hulle maak dit party maal dat die twee inmekaar sit, dis dan bietjie moeliker om te diens. Myne het ook 'n gap wat help met die in en uit skuif wanneer nodig en staan teen 'n muur, maar ek sou my gaps kleiner verkies.

It looks great Neville, well done. We will have to make a plan to get some of those to Cape Town.

Die verspreiding van die water lyk uitstekend.

Windgat ek like dit baie nekies oom

Hi Neville,

Good design. Well made - I thought you were on pension? I would also listen to the suggestion to close the gap a little between each level because of the wind factor.

I would remove the media from the bags and place it directly into each tray to get an even flow of water through the system. Bags are surprisingly restrictive especially when algae and bacterial biofilms grow on them.

I also suggest you fill each tray as much as possible with filter media so that you get the maximum surface area in each tray to make the filter more efficient.

The outlet at the bottom should be as large as possible so that there is no restriction at all and there is no water build up in the bottom tray. If the outlet is small this will govern or limit the amount of water that you can send through this biofilter and this defeats the object of a trickle filter / bakki shower.

Chris

Ditto, Chris also very good water distribution as Jaco pointed our earlier.

My last or 4th Bakki is sloped to the centre to force the water to a bottom exit. The water runs a 200W x 150H stainless steel channel full and drops into the pond via a meter wide curtain, the point is that the water runs strong and fil the channel to 15mm below the top.

Hello
Where would one be able to buy these plastic tubs from ??
Shane

Hi,
You can buy them at :

K -Fab Plastics,
22 Fransen Street,
Chamdor,
Krugersdorp'
Gauteng
Tel: 011 762 1116
Fax: 011 762 1855
Web site: www.kfeb.co.za
e~mail: johan@kfab.co.za

You can phone the owner Johan Goosen

Baie netjies Neville. Hoeveel kos so setup?

Hi all well i have changed my 2 m high water wall into 5 trays, 230 deep x 200 wide by 1,5 m long bakki shower all 5 trays are made and fiber glassed into the wall i mad a mold and made all my trays to fit 100% it has been hard work and a learning proses will tile it tomorrow then post befor and after pics,

i need to drill the holes next i see that there has been a post with 180 holes per tray 5.5mm big is this about right also i am looking at media for the tray please any help here will be great should i put ziolite in one oyster shells in anothere the bioballs in the other 3

thanks guys.

Hello Shawn

Looking forward to see the pictures of the Baki on that wall

Good luck with the new Sanke & Kohaku, very good deal, take regular pictures to keep track of development. I will be interested to follow development of the Sanke over time.