Holy cow, 10,000 gph is a lot of water

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So after dicking around with trying to find 3" and 2" fittings, I finally got the river flowing. Please excuse the dirty water but That should be clear be the am.
 

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Love the look, came out looking really nice, However, you mention using 2" connections. If so your reducing your flow rate. I run a 10,000gph pump, just with 3" pipe, 28 feet of pipe length and a head of just shy of 3 feet my flow rate went from what was suppose to 10,000 gph to 8,125 gph. Now that it's been running for almost two years I would be surprised if I am pushing 7,500 gallons per hour. Looking at your flow, I would say your not for off from that either. Your flow looks about right for your stream bed, I like that effect but it still doesn't look like a full 10,000 gph, Did you run wide sweep 90 degree elbows or the short sweep? How long of pipe run, and what kind of pump. I can tell you this, If your running a Anjon 10,000 gph submersible pump, be ready, I think they have the flow rate and the electricity usage rate backwards. because that thing uses a lot of electricity and not the flow rate I was expecting. My two 4500 gph external pumps out preform the submersible by a long shot.
 
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Love the look, came out looking really nice, However, you mention using 2" connections. If so your reducing your flow rate. I run a 10,000gph pump, just with 3" pipe, 28 feet of pipe length and a head of just shy of 3 feet my flow rate went from what was suppose to 10,000 gph to 8,125 gph. Now that it's been running for almost two years I would be surprised if I am pushing 7,500 gallons per hour. Looking at your flow, I would say your not for off from that either. Your flow looks about right for your stream bed, I like that effect but it still doesn't look like a full 10,000 gph, Did you run wide sweep 90 degree elbows or the short sweep? How long of pipe run, and what kind of pump. I can tell you this, If your running a Anjon 10,000 gph submersible pump, be ready, I think they have the flow rate and the electricity usage rate backwards. because that thing uses a lot of electricity and not the flow rate I was expecting. My two 4500 gph external pumps out preform the submersible by a long shot.


Thank you. I'm actually a plumber and I know the 2 inch pvc isn't flowing 10,000 gph lo. I guess i should have said the the pump is 10,000 gph. I know I'm going to have to increase the pipe to 3 inch bit digging up the 2 inch from the river bed is definitely going to be a major pita. I'm not sure if I need and more flow but we'll have to see how this grows on me. As you know these ponds are always a wip.
 
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Really like that long stream.

Finding 3" barb fittings for the spiral PVC pond hose I bought for my pond project was harder than I thought.

Now finding big enough double-wire hose clamps that are reccomended for that hose is even tougher. The 3" clamps I got off amazon only open-up to 3-1/4", not quite big enough, I need 3-1/2".
 
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Went from very murky from disturbing everything to crystal clear in less then 12 hrs just from having the lower pond as my filter. Amazing.
 

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