Pond Pumps...

[rabbut]

I'm looking for a pond pump for a 6400l pond (approx 1500gal) to drive a filter and waterfall. I need a head height of about 1 metre and I thing about 2500lph flow, as it will be lightly stocked The filter it's driving will be a DIY one, build from a 20l bucket...

I have seen the Aquarius range and like them, currently eyeing up a Aquarius 2500, but I don't know if it will be solids handeling. Anyone know what their long-term reliability is like?

Thanks all
Rabbut

 

[simonas]

I use a Laguna pump. bought it in May to filter my new pond. My ponds only 700 or so gallons but its raised and lifts water to filter box 45 inches up.

theres plenty of pumps in the Laguna range to cater for all sizes

 

[bgarthe23 41]

Another option I used for decades with my 3,700g pond was putting the pump inside a large 1/16” or 1/8” 3’ mesh bag. Putting them in such a bag fixes all the clogging issues. And I only had to clean it off at the end of the season when I brought my Koi to the inside 700g basement pond.

Pondmaster - Mesh Pump Bag - "Large" - 24" x 26" - 12320

These rugged polyethylene mesh bags are designed to hold pumps in either horizontal or vertical orientation. Used in skimmers or independently as a

www.123ponds.com

 

[FattyFish]

Another option I used for decades with my 3,700g pond was putting the pump inside a large 1/16” or 1/8” 3’ mesh bag. Putting them in such a bag fixes all the clogging issues. And I only had to clean it off at the end of the season when I brought my Koi to the inside 700g basement pond.

Pondmaster - Mesh Pump Bag - "Large" - 24" x 26" - 12320

These rugged polyethylene mesh bags are designed to hold pumps in either horizontal or vertical orientation. Used in skimmers or independently as a

www.123ponds.com

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Nice-looking pond

 

[bgarthe23 41]

Really though…….putting a pond pump in a bag will save you SO much time , trouble, and frustration. For water movement, the bag, GFCI outlet, and my mercury float switches were absolute musts. The floating mercury switch powered all my pumps and……should a hose have burst to the filter box, only a fraction of the pond water would be wasted as when the pond water level dropped 6” or so, the switch would cut power to the pump thus not emptying the pond water onto my lawn killing my precious koi.

*******IMPORTANT******My pond was a rubber liner pond, so I had to run a copper wire from the pond water to a metal grounding stake. Doing so would (in the event there was electrical current seepage from an AC pump) ground the electricity thus preventing the pond keeper from accidentally being the conduit (what grounds the electric current) effectively electrocuting that person. If you need confirmation of my very real concern, ask a power company official or certified electrician.
I kept koi ponds for many decades and wish the same for you as well, but safely.

You might find this Vid of some help.