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.
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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.
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- 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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