After the last 5 years of going back and forth with building my big pond, I can't believe I'm having so much trouble starting up a little stock tank pond.
So, as a lot of you already know from my other posts, a friend from work who no longer has a pond gave me his filter, pump, uv light and tubing. Well I filled the tank and set up the pump and filter. Don't have the right connectors for the UV, but that's fine, I'll get to that if I even need it. So a day and half after my initial set up, the filter shifted on what I had it elevated on and drained the tank. the pump was still running when I got home from work to find this, still in water, but not enough water for it to actually push anymore through. So I unplugged it and found a more stable way to elevate the filter. Got it all up and running again on last Wednesday evening. It was running fine Friday morning, when I got home from work it was not running. Tank was still full, checked the outlet it seemed fine, I ran the pump cord into the house to test it on a different outlet and nothing. So I thought since this was a used pump and I had no idea how old it was or how it was cared for, maybe it just died. Went to Menards Saturday and bought a new pump. Hooked that one up Saturday when I got back, all was running fine. Went to my ex's Sunday and got my fish, added them to the pond. Everything running and working great last night when I went to bed. Went out there this morning before work and the new pump was not running either. Again the GCFI did not need to be reset. I pulled the pump and the box and am going to return it to Menards, just in case for some dumb luck I managed to get a defective one. But I feel like this seems way to coincidental. I pugged in an airstone, and I'm praying that will be okay, for the fish. I have to work both of my jobs today so I will go to Menards on my lunch break but then I won't be able to get home until probably 10:00 tonight.
I don't know any specs on the used pump, but it looked like a much better model than the one I bought from Menards. The one from Menards is a Tetra 700, it was 60W, 120V. There's nothing in the tank as far as something large that could have somehow been sucked in to damage these pumps. No rocks, debris, or sludge.
Does anyone have any idea what might be burning my pumps up??
I just moved into this place a month ago. It's an older duplex, I'm guessing built in the 50's. I'm renting so I can't really make any permanent improvements. Getting my fish moved asap was a huge priority. My ex has been intentionally killing them slowly (because I left him), my 3 biggest koi have died, I think he's been slowly poisoning the pond.
Thanks everyone
So, as a lot of you already know from my other posts, a friend from work who no longer has a pond gave me his filter, pump, uv light and tubing. Well I filled the tank and set up the pump and filter. Don't have the right connectors for the UV, but that's fine, I'll get to that if I even need it. So a day and half after my initial set up, the filter shifted on what I had it elevated on and drained the tank. the pump was still running when I got home from work to find this, still in water, but not enough water for it to actually push anymore through. So I unplugged it and found a more stable way to elevate the filter. Got it all up and running again on last Wednesday evening. It was running fine Friday morning, when I got home from work it was not running. Tank was still full, checked the outlet it seemed fine, I ran the pump cord into the house to test it on a different outlet and nothing. So I thought since this was a used pump and I had no idea how old it was or how it was cared for, maybe it just died. Went to Menards Saturday and bought a new pump. Hooked that one up Saturday when I got back, all was running fine. Went to my ex's Sunday and got my fish, added them to the pond. Everything running and working great last night when I went to bed. Went out there this morning before work and the new pump was not running either. Again the GCFI did not need to be reset. I pulled the pump and the box and am going to return it to Menards, just in case for some dumb luck I managed to get a defective one. But I feel like this seems way to coincidental. I pugged in an airstone, and I'm praying that will be okay, for the fish. I have to work both of my jobs today so I will go to Menards on my lunch break but then I won't be able to get home until probably 10:00 tonight.
I don't know any specs on the used pump, but it looked like a much better model than the one I bought from Menards. The one from Menards is a Tetra 700, it was 60W, 120V. There's nothing in the tank as far as something large that could have somehow been sucked in to damage these pumps. No rocks, debris, or sludge.
Does anyone have any idea what might be burning my pumps up??
I just moved into this place a month ago. It's an older duplex, I'm guessing built in the 50's. I'm renting so I can't really make any permanent improvements. Getting my fish moved asap was a huge priority. My ex has been intentionally killing them slowly (because I left him), my 3 biggest koi have died, I think he's been slowly poisoning the pond.
Thanks everyone
