I really want a flowerpot filter like I've seen in some of your pictures. I have read quite a few instructions but they seem to complicated. Yes, I can construct a pond, but not instructions to make a filter. My question is about the nipple fittings for the inflow.

My current filter is a downflow filter with the inflow sliding on a nipple on the outside of the pot to a dispurser bar that drips down into my media and out the bottom of the barrel through a pipe to my fall.

My questoin is to simply things could I use these parts and install the nipple on the outside of my flowerpot to the dispersing bar above a settling chamber to flow up through the media, flowers and outflow through a notch cut in the lip of the flowerpot? The dispersing bar that I have has a hole in the end that would probably need to be capped but other than this is there any reason this would not work? I will have the filter outflow to a veggie filter that will stream down to the pond (to be built hopefully this week or next depending on mud drying up from the rain).

This would save a lot of headache for me trying to find the nipple and attachment that they talk about on the skippy site and it already fits my tubing perfectly for my current filter.