The Turbovortex Solids Separator is a patented prefilter that sits in front of your pump. It is designed to stop large solids such as string algae, pine needles, leaves, and fish waste before they get into the strainer basket of you pump or your filter. This translates into a marked decrease in pump strainer basket cleaning and decreased solids in the filter. Reducing strainer basket opening speaks for itself, however reducing the solids that make it into your filter will greatly improve the biofiltration efficiency of the filter. The longer the beads go in a clean rather than a clogged condition, the more biosurface is available for ammonia conversion.

Reducing the solids in the main filter will also decrease the backwash time and the amount of water that is lost with backwash. As you can see, having a prefilter that stops the large solids has many advantages and to top it off the Turbovortex is backwashable. There is no need for wet and dirty hands in cleaning the filter and you will be set free from daily strainer basket opening.

Introducing The Turbovortex Solids Separator

• Takes the place of giant hard to install, difficult to hide vortex sediment tanks all in a small 12" footprint.

• Easy to install

• Backwashed in about 1 minute

• By reducing solids going to your filter you reduce the backwashing frequency of your filter

• Opens instantly for servicing

• The turbo was designed to work with these types of systems including Sand, Sand Type, Conventional.

• Black the ideal pond accessory color

• Comes with installation kit

THE TURBOVORTEX IS THE ANSWER.

What is the best thing you can do for your filter? Keep solids out of it so it can do what it really is supposed to do and that is handle solubles and not solids.  This is truly the answer to the problem of removing solids so you can have a more efficient filter.  The Turbovortex fits between the pond and your pump catching solids and waiting to be backwashed which is as simple as moving a valve and the solids are gone to waste, a simple 1 minute operation about once a week.

*Note* The Turbovortex is a suction vessel and it is not recommended for installations that are elevated above the pond level. It is best to install it as below or as close to pond water level as possible. This will help in maintaining prime and reduce the vacuum (negative) pressure the tank and unions must withstand.

How does the Turbovortex work?

Think of the Turbovortex Solids Separator as a very large strainer basket with much more surface area for solids capture than a pump strainer basket. The Turbovortex is a suction vessel, just as the strainer basket of the pump. Water enters at the base of the filter and move up through a thick layer of bio-balls. As pond water enters the vessel, any large solids that are carried into the vessel will settle out on a settling plate at the base of the filter. From here they will be easily backwashed out. The smaller lighter weight solids will float up and be trapped in the layer of bio-balls before passing on to the pump strainer basket or the filter.

On backwash the flow is reversed and the vessel becomes a pressurized rather than a suction vessel. Now the water enters the top of the vessel through the vortex cap that accerates the water in a circular motion. As the water enters the main vessel spinning, it breaks up the bio-balls that have trapped solids, releasing the solids to be carried out the base of the filter.

Introducing the Vortex Filters

Vortex Filters

Vortex filters offer reliable, ultra-low-maintenance filtration for ponds where significant amounts of organic matter accumulate on the bottom, such as Koi ponds.

Vortex's are used as the main mechanical stage of Filtration, and if installed correctly can remove up to 80% of solids that pass through them.

This allows the waste and debris to settle into the bottom of the vortex chamber where it then collects at the conical end of the vortex - waiting to be 'Flushed' via the Slide Valve which should be fitted to the external pipework that has been installed as part of your filtration system.