Grow-out Greenhouse Filtration, Part 3

We have been posting about the two different types of filtration in our new Grow-out Greenhouse.  Today’s post will explain our Polygeyser setup.  For this particular filtration system, we bought an off the shelf filter with no pre-filtration.  However, instead of using the suction pressure it is gravity fed.  According to the manual, we can feed up to 10lbs of food per day per system.  While this is a smaller footprint than the vortex system, the price tag is higher at about $3800.  The big advantage to this system is that it automatically backwashes using a small amount of air.    Both the vortex system and the Polygeyser are both air driven to dump dirt and water.  They are both set to do this automatically six times a day.  This is how we attempted to level the playing field between the two different systems.

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