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Comment on How to build a garden fish pond by Cheryl Buerckner

Cheryl Buerckner — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:02:34 +0000

You have refuelled my interest in building a large outdoor pond. It is great. What size filter do you need for something like this? How often do you need to clean your filter? Is it like a swimming pool for maintenance time or less? Do you need to keep it in the shade or full sun? So much I don’t know. AND, did you build the swinging chair, if so, extremely interested. Great job & great video. Thanks

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Preformed Ponds for Wildlife | Preformed Ponds — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:27:02 +0000

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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by David W

David W — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:30:59 +0000

Kenny,

Pumps run 24 hours a day and are the chief piece of equipment responsible for keeping your pond healthy.

One of the most important things that you can do when setting up a new pond is to get the proper equipment installed. The pump you install should move at least 1/2 of the total pond volume for a water garden. The term “water garden” is assumed to be a pond with lots of plants and some fish. A koi pond usually has few plants and large fish requiring more filtration than a water garden. This type of pond is better off moving at least the full volume of the pond each hour.

Besides moving the water you also want to filter the water. The pump should move water through a filter that is sized for your pond. Biological filtration takes several weeks or months to mature to the point that it makes a major improvement on your water quality. The filter needs to run 24 hours a day 7 days a week to work.
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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by T

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:21:59 +0000

lady is correct. Assuming you have both plants and fish in you pond, the pump is more important to be on at night rather than the day. At night plants consume O2 and produce CO2; therefore, O2 and pH drops. In the day, the opposite takes place.
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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by Christian

Christian — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:34:59 +0000

If you don’t have fish that’s an excellent plan. If you have fish you could probably get away with it but it would depend on many factors like temperature, type of fish, cleanliness of the pond, etc.

Christian
http://allyoudoisfeedthefish.net/index.html
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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by Spectre

Spectre — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:24:59 +0000

If your pump is rated to run 24/7 you can leave it running.
To save electricity you could get a simple timer and set it to run for 30 mins 2 or 3 times at night and run all day. Or you could have it coming on/off at various times thru day & night. This should keep water oxygenated enough
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I use a timer and this works for us , however we dont have fish
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Comment on can i make a fish pond in my garden without using pumps,filters etc? by lewis n 5 years old I'm 75

lewis n 5 years old I'm 75 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:54:59 +0000

Depends on how many fish you are going to put in. Do you want them to live in filfy water. How long cound you live in dirty drinking water? No air, ? Do you have trees overhead, and leaves. Would you swim in a dirty pool?
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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by yo

yo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:36:59 +0000

LEAVE IT ON 24/7
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Comment on Turn Pond Water Pump Off At Night? by bailie28

bailie28 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:23:59 +0000

we only turned our pond pump on when we were outside to enjoy the pond…that way if our pump got knocked over we were there to keep the water from being pumped out of the pond…which did actually happen due to wind alot..lol…my goldfish in the pond…have lived thru two winters and a summer just this way…they dont need the pump to survive the wind keeps enough oxygen in the pond with ripples that its fine…as for the mosquito’s…they form in any standing water..they form in normal ground ponds..they will form in your pond whether you have the pump running or not…we have had our pond 8 years now..and the first year we ran it all the time…we still had mosquito’s and that was the only water source around…frogs started coming to the pond after we turned the pond off..which was actually cool..part of the summer we had tadpoles and the fish of course ate some of them…
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Comment on can i make a fish pond in my garden without using pumps,filters etc? by Tony T

Tony T — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:22:59 +0000

don’t try it
its too freaking hard or otherwise you will have algeal blooms all in the water
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