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pump suggestions
Today I have started building my second pond.
old pond was 5`*2`*2` New pond is going to be 8`*6`*4` Anyways, I`m doing a homemade filter consisting of settlement tank, foam and plant filter boxes but I need a pump. I have a relative who works at hozelock who can get me a good discount. I`m currently thinking of the titan (it looks very nice) so has anyone got any recommendations/warnings for the hozelock pumps? http://www.hozelock.com/aquatics/I049.asp?region=ROW |
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On 02/05/2005 "john huddleston" wrote:
Today I have started building my second pond. old pond was 5`*2`*2` New pond is going to be 8`*6`*4` Anyways, I`m doing a homemade filter consisting of settlement tank, foam and plant filter boxes but I need a pump. I have a relative who works at hozelock who can get me a good discount. I`m currently thinking of the titan (it looks very nice) so has anyone got any recommendations/warnings for the hozelock pumps? http://www.hozelock.com/aquatics/I049.asp?region=ROW Actually I bought a Titan 5500 a week ago and the pond water which last week stopped you seeing anything is now clear enough to see the bottom. Since with the intakes on the pump fully open it can pass solids up to 8 mm. it has sucked all the sediment from the bottom of the pond and it has been then removed by the foam in the filter. The drawback being that for the first few days I was washing the foam about 3 times a day! It now needs cleaning every other day and I would estimate that give it another week or so, once a week will be sufficient. I have used 40 mm. hose to the filter as recommended and the flow rate is impressive even though I have a 9 M. run. I am by the way using a Hoselock Ecocel 9000 filter which is the correct size for this pump according to Hozelock. The water on leaving the filter then goes into a small pond, from there down a smallish waterfall, along a stream about 6 feet and down another waterfall into the main pond. The flow now being sufficient that they are waterfalls instead of a rather feeble trickle as with my previous pump. The other attraction of the 5500 is that the intakes can be closed down to 2 mm. if/when you have fry or tadpoles in the pond. The smaller Titans only open up to 4 mm. not the 8 mm. of the 5500 and above. I know I have not had it long enough to say anything about it's long term reliability but so far I am very pleased with it. MikeB |
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