"John Hines" wrote in message
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Go for both. It isn't that hard. Look on the web, you'll find lots of
diagrams of peoples pond plumbing.
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OK, I am sold the more I think about it.

Now the question...

I am going to hook my bottom drains to a settlement chamber, and pull water
from their into my veggie filter. I plan to use three settlement chambers,
in case I ever want to add some mechanical filtration. Anyway, Should my
skimmer empty into my veggie filter as well or should I just loop back to
the pond somewhere? I figured the skimmer output could be used for a nice
water feature of some sort. Also having a short run behind a skimmer would
lessen my need for a sizable pump, I would think.

BV.