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"~ janj JJsPond.us" wrote in message
... "Courageous" did the calculations and came up with: Okay, I'll assume an average depth of 2.25 feet. Your pond is 13 x 13 x 2.25 x 7.48 = 3,160 gallons. Having done my own figuring and fellow ponder's figuring of their own ponds and then running a water meter, or salt calculator, we've found all to be off by 20-50%. All those folds, curves and I wouldn't be surprised plant containers (if it is an older pond) take up space. http://webpages.charter.net/gareee/Pond.jpg So with the math and the picture above I'm betting she has something over 2,000 gallons, and the only way that little filter is gonna work is to mass plant the pond. My lily pond of 1,000 gallons has 12 water lilies, 2 lotus, 4 baskets of iris, 2 baskets of arrowhead, 1 lizard tail and a few water hyacinths, plus bunches of anacharis. It looks like you have the starts of a water fall to the right? Do you have anyone mechanically inclined to help you do an out-of-the-pond filter perhaps? I'm thinking plumbing similar to what my guys did for me (see diagram on webpage under *My Filter*) where you go over the side and use siphon effect. www.jjspond.us ~ jan Yeah we'd talked about a waterfall on the right. I'm thinking it would be better to have a lower one, and incorporate the rock on it's side, then to drop totally off that boulder. What I can probably do, is get a larger pump, and place that inside the in pond filter as well. I'm kinda in the boonies (Our city has a total population of only 6,000), so pretty much what I can do is what I me myself. I've seen some pumps in the chicago tools catalog that look like they might do a waterfall.. or any online inexpensive alternatives would also be good. BTW, we thought there were some larger baby fish in the pond, and it's turned out they are salmanders or newts that have decided to visit! -- Gareee's Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine.../mainframe.htm Remove Delicious spam to reply |
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