{"id":1009,"date":"2012-02-25T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2012-02-25T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:35:21","slug":"waterco-prefilter-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2012\/02\/waterco-prefilter-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"waterco prefilter maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to clean the Waterco pre-filter about 3-4 times per year. Algae grows on the sides of the clear bottom and some sludge seems to stick to it. So I unscrew the treaded clamp that holds the top and bottom together. This usually takes a little persuasion with a rubber hammer to get it started. Then I tap gently on the clear plastic at the joint of the two halves while lifting up at the same time, until it comes apart. I then hose out as much as gunk as I can then scrub out any remaining algae on the sides. <\/p>\n<p>Prefilter before cleaning:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/waterco_prefilter_sludge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/waterco_prefilter_sludge.jpg\" alt=\"waterco prefilter algae and sludge\" title=\"waterco_prefilter_sludge\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/waterco_prefilter_sludge.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/waterco_prefilter_sludge-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the winter I had a few freezing days and the plastic valve that lets you drain the prefilter must have expanded with ice. It now leaks a little when the valve is open. I need to replace that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to clean the Waterco pre-filter about 3-4 times per year. Algae grows on the sides of the clear bottom and some sludge seems to stick to it. So I unscrew the treaded clamp that holds the top and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/2012\/02\/waterco-prefilter-maintenance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pond-maintenance","category-pond-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/pond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}