Posted by TonyIN on June 25, 2011 at 09:57:31 from (74.215.182.169):
In Reply to: OT-pond areation posted by Ray on June 24, 2011 at 14:49:36:
Had my pond now about 12 years. 20 to 25" deep, about 3/4 acre. Being the cheap/thrifty/tight guy I am, I initially tried an on-shore electric water pump with some old pvc to the bottom and another line to the surface for a poor man"s fountain. Didn"t do as much for the pond as I thought it would. Also burned out a pump or two. Bottom based aeration seems the best, so used an old air tank for capacity, picked up a cheap off brand air compressor and used a soaker hose as my bottom dispersion. Thankfully the cheap compressor had a warranty and I went through 3 in one summer. These and the shore mounted pump were never meant for that type of continuous/semi-continuous use. Neither are sump pumps. Finally broke down and bought a shore based air pump meant for this application. Still used the soaker hose because I was too "thrifty" to spend the ridiculous amount on the stone. Blew apart the hoses about every other month. I now have the rubber type diaphram dispersion unit in the bottom which doesn"t need cleaning like the stone and the shore air pump in a fabricated enclosure. Do this. Don"t trip in my footsteps. Have had this system now for many years and pond has never been better. Very healthy fish too. It runs 24/7/365, even in sub zero winter. Couple summers ago there were a lot of fish kills locally due to drought/algae/etc. Never had an issue. I got 7 years out of the pump before a rebuild (lady who sold me the rebuild kit this year was in disbelief and put me on their reminder list to harass me for rebuild kits...) Good luck in your choice.
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