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Replaced my pump
A while ago I commented that our 10 yr old pump had died. Today I bit
the bullet and replumbed the thing. I initilly had a submersed pump at the bottom of our 7 foot deep well. that pushed water up to the berm. Great...except for the problem of repair. That meant diving down 7 feet. Fine now at 65. But in a decade? So i plumber in a pondmaster that can operate outside the pond! Changing it will mean only undooing two compression fittings. The task was a bit tedious as I had to lower the pond level to ensure the pump would automatically prime. The intake is in the deep well at a 4' level, leaving 3' of water if ever it somehow pumped the pond empty. The intake is a T of 1.5" pipe in a 5 gal bucket with hundreds of 1/2" holes. Plenty of flow but unable to hold fish at any one hole. Generally some eggges go through the system, but no fish that I can tell. The berm is better off with circulation! Maybe my green water will go away as well. I have it for the first time in several years. Jim |
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Replaced my pump
Follow up on the pump
The pond is noticeably clearer after less than a day of the new pump. Also, I have foam on the water at the base of the streams. Koi breeding. I will clean the berm ponds tomorrow. Jim |
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Replaced my pump
Point well taken. I have it in a 5 gal bucket with as many 1/2" holes
in it as i could drill. Nothing above 1/2" can get in, the pull is very little per hole and it will never clog. that was my fear with gravel...that it would eventually clog. Jim |
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Magic pond clearing agent: Replaced my pump
It is now a number of days since I changed out the pump. My pons has
lost its green and most of its cloudiness. The berm ponds are doing their thing! Now, the herons must not come...they could see the fish! Jim |
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