On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:33:04 EDT, Phyllis and Jim
wrote:

We went with a second Pondmaster as a replacement/backup. We thought we could aford it. Our pump is outside the pond and easily replaced by unscrewing two unions in out 1.5" lines. Takes about 20 min start to finish.

Our original in-pond pump was at the bottom of our 7' 'deep well' in the center of the pond. At 65, I had no problem diving down, undoing it and pulling it out. Thought that could be a problem in a decade or two. Don't ever have to do it again!

Let us know what you decide.

JB, what did you decide?

My lily pond pump, a Becket, went out last week. After concurring with
folks on Koiphen and reading reviews I went with a Laguna.

Remember back in the old rec.pond days that was not a name for quality?
Apparently they have improved their line. This is a mag drive with some
sort of electronic flow controller, so I'll drop from 300-330 watts that
the Becket was using down to 100 watts for the same output (supposedly).

I'll test it out on the koi pond before I install it on the lily pond so I
can see if it will successfully run the waterfall on the koi pond. If all
goes well I'll order another, the Beckett in the koi pond is approaching
the same run time as the one that died, so best be prepared.

In the meantime the lily pond is running at half flow with the koi pond's
winter pump. ~ jan
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