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How To Choose Fish Pond Bio Filters Get Clear Ponds

How To Select Garden Pond & Waterfall Pump

Save money on pond pumps, pond filters, backyard waterfalls, fountains, ponds, water gardening, koi food and how to achieve crystal clear garden pond water too.

This is a 250 word (approx) summary of a chapter from my book .
Each chapter or main topic has been summarised in this way. For a complete list of summaries see the right hand column

Concepts:

pipe, fittings, diameter, pump, hose, screw threads, flow, adaptor, bends, avoid, restrict flow, equipment, hassles, male, female screw threads.

Summary:

- In many respects the most annoying part of putting a pond together is assembling all the right fittings to match up to the different pieces of equipment: pump, fountain, UV, filter inlet and outlet and so on.

- Preferably use ribbed flexible hose if you can find it even though it is more expensive than clear plastic.

- The most important reason is that this pipe does not kink and restrict flow and can therefore be used to go around obstacles such as tree trunks.

- Pipe lengths of about 3 metres long will reduce flow from the pump by about 5% if the correct diameter is used.

- Do not reduce pipe diameters by using reducers or clips unless absolutely necessary.

- Avoid bends and especially right angle corners because they restrict flow from the pump quite considerably.

- There are sockets (female screw threads) and adaptors (male screw threads).

- So it is with fittings - sit down and decide whether you want to have a hassle free pond or are you prepared to have hassles, if not now then certainly in the future.

- The body of the pump has a female screw thread and if you measure the diameter of this thread it is 19 mm (or 3/4").

- However if you go to buy a male fitting to screw into this hole you will need an adaptor with 1/2" thread.

- Similarly the fitting for the larger FOCUS 3000L or 4000L pumps need a 3/4" adaptor even though the thread diameter is 25 mm or 1".

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Updated Feb 2005

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