Wouldn't you know it......

[tucker]

The weather is rainy, yukky, and etc.....but the pond is thawing, so now I can really see the green water :roll:
So, it stopped raining for awhile this afternoon, and I decided to get out the pump, hook up the hose, and have the hose drain into the bottom part of my shop vac with lots and lots of quilt batting, hoping to get some of the green out........wouldn't you know it........my pump don't work :confused:
I was going to take it to the shed and take it apart, and hopefully see what is wrong with it, maybe something is stopping the impeller from working but it starting pouring...so will have to wait for another day.
Lets hope it is fixable......didn't want to get a new pump for a couple of months yet. If not, in the mean time, will somehow put a basket (to keep the fish out) around a sump pump I have, and filter some of the water that way.
The pond is a greenish/yellowish/brown.....but the fish seem ok.....a little bigger than last fall....and slowing swimming around....

[Terri]

Have you thought about a water change?

Funny how they fish seem to grow over winter isn't it? :grin: Glad they seem ok. I hope that pump was just being tempermental on you... :(

Our ponds are still blocks of ice(no fish in them though)

[Busy B]

I don't have a skimmer Tucker and found out how badly I need one...From cottonwood trees, I ended up with an awful mess so I tried to rig something up...not very conventional but it worked somewhat...


I put quilt batting in all 3 levels and it did screen out lots of junk...

A bottom drain and a skimmer would of saved some time..

Ah well...putzing around the pond is theraputic;)

[Jackie Ramo]

Busy, where did you get those boxes - cool

[Busy B]

We have Fred Meyer's...I think elsewhere it's called Krogers?

They are a wire mesh...don't leave them in the pond for long cause the bottom wants to rust but they were sturdy...imagine milk crates would serve the same purpose.

[GregBickal]

What size of pump are you using pumping through that yellow hose ? The hose looks awful small.

[Busy B]

Was just a garden hose hooked up to a sump pump...

I have a hot water on demand system hooked up to the ghouse to water plants with...we blew out more hoses last year tweaking the thing...just cut off the end where it blew and used them for other projects.

[Jackie Ramo]

Busy how do you like the hot water on demand? other than it breaks hoses?

[Busy B]

Works great other than that...:grin:

Traded the thing for some flowers...had a smaller one but it leaked alot. This one has two burners. Hook up from the outside spigot to it and then run a hose into barrels to water my plants with. Don't have the shock of cold well water to deal with and I use it for water changes. Any kink in the hose or if the end is restricted the pressure blows out the hose at the outtake.

[Jackie Ramo]

Is this the same type of thing people use for the house? My plants usually get watered with pond water but the house is always running out of hot water. Hubby was not pleased trying to take a shower right after I did a waterchange in the greenhouse pond.

[Busy B]

Yes that's it...ours is hooked up to natural gas. Just have it plumbed into the line for the furnaces so don't have to worry about venting it. Supposedly they are more energy effecient than regular hot water heaters...Only heat up when you need them-equals on demand :wink:

To get this back on topic of ponds :smile:

Anyone else have to contend with cold well water when doing water changes?

[GregBickal]

I have cold well water (50F). I do water changes using my water heater water to prevent temp drop. However a very knowledgeable person told me that if you only change 10% at a time, temperature drop will be less then 1F.