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I found a cheap way to play the water movement game.
I posted on it a few years ago.
Ebay has some solar powered pond pumps.
They have a small solar panel, a wire and a submersible water pump.
They're water resistant/proof
They're like $15 and work really well. They do move the water around. Enough for a small fountain or to push a small cascade filter.
I think if I'd routed mine better I would have had better results.
My issue was with the wire. The tortoises kept dragging it with the pump right out of the water.
That wouldn't have happened if I had burried the wire under gravel. But gravel also makes cleaning the pond many times more difficult.
I just gave up on the whole filtered pond idea.
Outdoors you could make a recirculating bog filter with rocks and plants. Maybe with a small natural looking stream. I've seen some members do that with beautiful results. The rocks, etc remove the contaminants and the plants eat/convert the Nitrates.
Start with the water outlet raised slightly elevated at one end and the inlet downstream......Maybe a strip of pond liner with some decorative stones...The pump inlet in a box under the rocks at the lower end pumping the water through a buried pipe leading back to the outlet.
There really is no limit.
But I just opted for the simplistic method.
Maybe if I had more visitors I'd care more about aesthetics.
I posted on it a few years ago.
Ebay has some solar powered pond pumps.
They have a small solar panel, a wire and a submersible water pump.
They're water resistant/proof
They're like $15 and work really well. They do move the water around. Enough for a small fountain or to push a small cascade filter.
I think if I'd routed mine better I would have had better results.
My issue was with the wire. The tortoises kept dragging it with the pump right out of the water.
That wouldn't have happened if I had burried the wire under gravel. But gravel also makes cleaning the pond many times more difficult.
I just gave up on the whole filtered pond idea.
Outdoors you could make a recirculating bog filter with rocks and plants. Maybe with a small natural looking stream. I've seen some members do that with beautiful results. The rocks, etc remove the contaminants and the plants eat/convert the Nitrates.
Start with the water outlet raised slightly elevated at one end and the inlet downstream......Maybe a strip of pond liner with some decorative stones...The pump inlet in a box under the rocks at the lower end pumping the water through a buried pipe leading back to the outlet.
There really is no limit.
But I just opted for the simplistic method.
Maybe if I had more visitors I'd care more about aesthetics.
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