On 18 Aug (Meoww) wrote:
Our pond is about 100galls.
In it are 13 fish. A mirror carp, a ghost carp, three red goldfish,
five orange and black goldfish and three golden tench.

Oh my, I hope they're all very tiny.

a copper pipe

Regarding copper, watch your pH, keep it above 7.5 so the copper doesn't
precipitate off.

The problem is that the pump.

Can I remove this block of foam at the pump inlet and rely on the
filter box doing the job by itself. This box contains a lots of
pieces of plastic tube two pieces of foam.

Yes, your pump should be safe removing that block of foam.
~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

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