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How to clean a new pond???
I built a 22x22 ft pond last year, putting pump in this spring. There are a
few small goldfish already in it, 5-6 inches. There is a layer of green algea on the bottom. Do I need to vacumn this all up before adding the pump? How much organic matter is ok? I will need about 80 feet of tubing to run the external pump and supply the four foot high waterfall and 60 stream. The price of this tubing is high from the pond industry. Is there an alternative tubing source for the same product? -- Steve Shapson |
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How to clean a new pond???
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Joe On 4/19/04 7:30 PM, "Steve Shapson" wrote: I will need about 80 feet of tubing to run the external pump and supply the four foot high waterfall and 60 stream. The price of this tubing is high from the pond industry. Is there an alternative tubing source for the same product? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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How to clean a new pond???
Tubing - I bought a roll of 1 1/2" PVC at Home Depot cheap.
"Steve Shapson" wrote in message news I built a 22x22 ft pond last year, putting pump in this spring. There are a few small goldfish already in it, 5-6 inches. There is a layer of green algea on the bottom. Do I need to vacumn this all up before adding the pump? How much organic matter is ok? I will need about 80 feet of tubing to run the external pump and supply the four foot high waterfall and 60 stream. The price of this tubing is high from the pond industry. Is there an alternative tubing source for the same product? -- Steve Shapson |
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How to clean a new pond???
If the bottom is covered with just algae, this is good. Don't do anything
with it. As for the piping, the big box stores have the flexible pvc pipe, but it is expensive, whereever you get it. You might get some of it to make the plumbing simple where there would be a lot of bends and then connect it to straight pvc pipe, which is much cheaper. The same fittings fit both. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Steve Shapson" wrote in message news I built a 22x22 ft pond last year, putting pump in this spring. There are a few small goldfish already in it, 5-6 inches. There is a layer of green algea on the bottom. Do I need to vacumn this all up before adding the pump? How much organic matter is ok? I will need about 80 feet of tubing to run the external pump and supply the four foot high waterfall and 60 stream. The price of this tubing is high from the pond industry. Is there an alternative tubing source for the same product? -- Steve Shapson |
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