07-30-2007, 05:41 PM
Bob, I think that the pre-filter idea is relatively new in the Islands and it seems that most folks don't want to spend the extra money, even if it's to clean up their drinking water. The catchment companies will carry items only if people are willing to buy them.
I think the prefiltering or leaf diversion is an intriguing idea, please share more about it, or email me directly.
I attended the Hawaii Conservation Conference last week in Honolulu. One of the presenters talked about the use of a large copepod (an aquatic organism) that eats mosquito larvae. I am interested in using them in the catchment tank. The presenter said that in SE Asia, they were being used successfully in the the drinking water storage to control malaria by controlling mosquito larvae. It would help to have a screen over your intake pipe so that you don't suck the copepods out of your tank and into your filter system. Or, you can use a floating intake to keep the intake off the bottom of the tank. There is a large native species of copepod that can be used.
Edited by - Les C on 07/30/2007 21:44:10
I think the prefiltering or leaf diversion is an intriguing idea, please share more about it, or email me directly.
I attended the Hawaii Conservation Conference last week in Honolulu. One of the presenters talked about the use of a large copepod (an aquatic organism) that eats mosquito larvae. I am interested in using them in the catchment tank. The presenter said that in SE Asia, they were being used successfully in the the drinking water storage to control malaria by controlling mosquito larvae. It would help to have a screen over your intake pipe so that you don't suck the copepods out of your tank and into your filter system. Or, you can use a floating intake to keep the intake off the bottom of the tank. There is a large native species of copepod that can be used.
Edited by - Les C on 07/30/2007 21:44:10