Raccoons once happily pulled the tubing from my pump out of the water (I
pump water from the lower larger pond up to a smaller pond that has plants
and no fish -well is meant to have no fish). It emptied all of the pond but
for a few inches. Since then I have kept my pump in a 5 gallon bucket
filled with lava rocks. It serves as a bio filter this way and also insures
that the water will never drop lower than the height of the bucket (15").
In a week a very minor leak can empty a pond. How many gallons is your
pond?


"Oxymel_of_Squill" wrote in message
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came home from a week away to find the lilly pond all but empty. Bit
mystified as there's no sign of a leak anywhere and the walls of the pond
beyond the plastic liner don't feel soggy. And the fish pond level had
dropped less than an inch (we've had a couple of dry weeks).

Same thing happened last year, lilly pond merrily ponding along, then
suddenly in dry weather emptied itself. I filled it up and it stayed ok
until this week's little performance. Is there something large out there
with a great thirst? Or am I missing something obvious?

cheers

Jon