Choosing the Proper Pond Pump
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Article by: Gerry Fung Whether you have a preformed or a liner pond, , Plastic Liners a pond , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest pump is a paramount component of any water , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio feature. Stagnant bodies of water , Lose That Ugly Algae! attract mosquito infestations, which are a nuisance, and also undesirable, due to the recent outbreaks of the West Nile virus. Therefore, it is paramount that you utilize a pond , Compost YES, Epsom Salts NO pump that circulates your body of water. , Floral Garden and Landscape Toupees Pumps are available in both submersible and external (out-of-pond) models. For the smaller pond , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio (up to 1000 gallons of water), a submersible pump , Dream Yard is the more economical and practical option. Submersible pumps , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest can be placed directly in the pond , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning and require relatively little installation. They are free of distracting noise, and for smaller ponds, , Frame Your Garden With Edging can easily be utilized to drain your pond , Garden On The Cheap (if you hook up a hose to the output flow). In the old days, the main disadvantage of submersible pumps , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest was that the pump , Italian Vegetable Seeds seal could rupture and release oil coolant into the water. , Important Uses of Weeds in the Lives of People However, this is not the case nowadays, because newer pumps , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning are magnetic-driven, and no longer require coolant. "Mag-driven" pumps , June Gardening Tips are slightly more expensive, but they have the added advantage of consuming less electricity. , Italian Vegetable Seeds Pumps are sized by gallons per hour (GPH) output at one foot of lift or height. Manufacturers , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning usually offer charts that break down the power , Daylily 'When My Sweetheart Returns' of each size pump , Spring Wild Flowers according to incremental heights of one foot. It is recommended that you circulate your body of water , Plastic Pond Liners at least once every 2 hours. Therefore you will need to size your pump , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops to ensure that it has half the GPH rating as the volume of your pond , Dream Yard in gallons. For example, if you have a 1000 gallon water , Want a Garden, But Don't have Enough Dirt Or Space? Hydroponics Gardening Is The Answer! feature, you will require at least a 500 GPH pump. , Important Uses of Weeds in the Lives of People Calculating the proper pump , Compost Tea Tea Time For Your Garden for waterfalls , Spring Wild Flowers is a bit trickier, because you must estimate your waterfall's height. To do so, you must measure the vertical height from the top of your pump , A Home Garden Fun for the Whole Family to the top of your waterfall. , Timely Tips for Getting Your Garden Ready for Winter In addition, you must add another foot of height or lift for every 10 feet of hosing you will be using (this will allow for loss of volume from resistance within the hose). To calculate the required pump , Vegetable Gardening GPH, a general rule of thumb is that each inch of width of the channel will require an extra 100 GPH. For example, if your stream or waterfall , Mulchers - A Buying Guide spillway will be 10 inches wide, you will need a pump , Garden On The Cheap that produces an excess flow of 1000 GPH at your waterfall's height. If you plan , Lose That Ugly Algae! on having fish, , Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops your water , Patio Furniture - Coordinating Cushions, Chairs, And Canopies circulation demands will be drastically increased. Fish , Timely Tips for Getting Your Garden Ready for Winter rely on the oxygen in the water , Lose That Ugly Algae! to survive, hence a proper pump , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning for a fish pond , Planting Bare Root Roses must ensure that extra oxygen is both introduced into the pond, , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio and distributed throughout the pond. , Teak Adirondack Chairs The general rule of thumb is that you must double your pump , Daylily 'When My Sweetheart Returns' GPH if you plan , How to Create a Beautiful Landscape Painting on raising fish. , Bottle Gardening or Terrarium - Design and Maintenance An example of a pump , Teak Adirondack Chairs that would be appropriate for fish , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio is GardenSuperMart's UltraFlo line of pumps. , Tips On Caring For Your Cut Flowers These pumps , Starting With Cuttings have oxygen intake valves and an unique air/water air , Ticks mix system which effectively increases the oxygen concentration in your pond. , Barefoot at the Cottage The advantage of GardenSuperMart's low-maintenance, magnetic-driven UltraFlo pump , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams kits is that they contain a sealed unit with a large enclosure that prevents debris from clogging the water , Want a Garden, But Don't have Enough Dirt Or Space? Hydroponics Gardening Is The Answer! intake. The UltraFlo line of pumps , Bottle Gardening or Terrarium - Design and Maintenance starts at 200 GPH, and increase up to 660 GPH. All UltraFlo pump , Ticks kits come complete with a telescopic riser and diverter and 3 fountain heads. If you require a more powerful pump, , Frame Your Garden With Edging GardenSuperMart also has a SuperFlo line of pump , African Violet Care kits that can provide up to 1585 GPH. All SuperFlo kits come complete with a telescopic riser and diverter, 4 fountain heads, and a sponge pre-filter. An optional SuperFlo Mechancial and Biological filter can also be added to the pump , How to Choose Between Goldfish and KOI to provide additional water , Vegetable Gardening filtration for your fish. , Teak Furniture - A Cut Above The Rest Both the SuperFlo and the UltraFlo pumps , Bird Feeders: Look Who's Coming to Dinner can be purchased online , Sowing an Annual Flower Border at GardenSuperMart's store, www.buypond.com. In late May 2005, GardenSuperMart will also introduce a new line of MaxFlo waterfall , Barefoot at the Cottage pumps that can provide up to 2780 GPH of pumping power. , Spring Wild Flowers Please stay tuned for further news and details.Gerry Fung is the Vice President of GardenSuperMart, http://www.GardenSuperMart.com More information , Gardening - Growing Herbs In Containers about their pond , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning pump lines can be obtained from buypond.com |
  
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