Ever thought about building a filter. You could make
a good size filter pretty cheap. Some people in this group
have plans for filters on thier webpages. I'm sure
they would be nice to post links to these filter plans.

Hi Gene,

Thank you for the suggestion, it is a good one. I
had planned for quite some time to build one, but
time is hard to come by right now, and I lost some
new fish that I put in the pond (the original ones
seem to be doing fine), but I just decided to
break the stalemate, buy a decent filter and get
it done as soon as possible.

Space around the pond is a little tight, so I
decided on a:

CE-13527 Clear Stream 1200

It is a pressurized unit that you can bury in the
ground up to the top lid (the inlet and outlet are
at the top). It would have almost 0 head, as a
result, and it will be very easy to create a
waterfall reentry into the pond from it as a result.

It should have more than adequate capacity for my
pond, but I will post a message about it once I
get it installed and have some appraisal of how
well it works.

Thank you again for your response -- I really had
planned on building one, but I think I just need
to get something into the pond quickly that I
think will work (it may have taken me another year
to actually build my own, sad to say).

Thanks again,

doug