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Do YOU want to touch this disgusting bag of lavarock?  You'll have to if you own a "pad-and-media-bag" style waterfall filter!The Dirty Truth about "Pad-&-Media-Bag" Style Waterfall Filters

"Pad-&-Media-Bag" Style Waterfall Filters
Can Only Be Cleaned BY HAND!

 

Cleaning "Pad-&-Media-Bag" style waterfall filters requires the complete disassembly of the media bags and filter pads for high pressure cleaning.A popular brand of "Pad-&-Meda-Bag" style waterfall filter ready for its "annual" cleaning.

Do you want to put your hands down inside these mass-marketed "Pad-&-Media-Bag" style waterfall filters? Do you think your customer does?

If you install a pad-&-media-bag filter - either you or your customer will have to.

These types of waterfall filters are sold all over the internet and are widely marketed to landscape contractors through irrigation supply companies, wholesale catalog companies, and other distributors that have little or no experience with the retail public, pond fish, Koi keeping, and aquatic health.

Before Installing a Waterfall Filter .... ALWAYS ASK:
"How does my customer clean this filter?"

If the manufacturer tells you: "Once per year, pull the filter pads and media bags out and hose them off" - the photos above and the on the next few pages show you what you'll be doing and how you'll do it.

Over the next few pages, we'll show you EXACLTY how these "annualy cleaned" pad-&-media-bag style filters get cleaned.

 

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