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Last Login: 4/9/2008 5:58:57 PM
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| I reposted this agian because it seemed to be ignored and i figured that it would get much more attention here My moms school has a smallish pond (I'm sorry to say i dont know the gallons at the moment) and it is far from beautiful. I plan to volunteer to help restore it. Any suggestions on the equipment ( ie brands and types) and by the way price is a factor, here are some of the spec's The pump supplies water to at valve which splits water half to the filter and half to the water fall. Then the filter water is returned back to the pond via tube. There is an old uv filter which i hope to get a new bulb for. At the moment i cant get allot more info because I'm on vacation 7 hours away. But when i get back next sunday i will try to find out any answers to your questions but i still might know them.
55 gallon tank
3 Rope Fish
2 Gold Gouramis
1 Clown loach
Still in progress 
10 gallon tank
1 neon tetra <-- only survivor
3 wester mosquito
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Fishkeeping GURU
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I'm sure your question wasn't ignored. I think there just aren't many pond people here. I know I've never had one and I know next to nothing about the equipment they require.
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Last Login: 8/23/2008 12:57:49 PM
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| I have one and I don't know much about equipment either! I don't use a UV filter, just a filter pump that sits on the bottom of the pond. Are there any plants or fish in it? could you get a picture of it posted? If edges of the liner arn't covered with flagstone or other stone then that needs to be done too so that mulch and stuff doesn't wash in and people don't slip. Setting it up with a few cheep plants (floating, submersed, and maybe a few lilies depending on size of the pond and pocketbook) will help control nutrients. Oh and I've heard alot about putting barley hay in the pond in early spring and replacing it every two months or so throughout the year helps hold algae at bay. Something about a certain tannin that leaches out from it blocks the algae from reproducing but still allows plants to grow and flourish. Hope that's helped in any way...
---------------------------------------------------- "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (2nd Peter 3:5-6)
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