TheFishGuy
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Hello fine peoples of this wonderful online forum, I am working on the planning for my eagle project, and decided to revamp a pond at my local botanical gardens. The pond in its current state needs quite a bit of help, but the main issue is a massive green water problem. The botanical garden is currently using algaecide ( no wonder they cant keep fish alive ) but we all know there is only one real way to solve a green water problem. Here is the plan: a large ish 10-12 x 8-10 bog with a depth of 14-18 ish inches. The gardens already has an unused skimmer box in place, so I will utilize that to pull water from the pond. I will post photos below.
Firstly, a couple of questions:
1. what flow rate do you think I need? I was thinking around 5000 gph. This is a fairly large pond but they already have a massive waterfall doing at least 5-10 thousand gallons per hour.
2. what pipe size should I use, I was thinking 2 inches for the main pipes and then going down to 3/4 inch for the individual bog manifolds.
3. depth? It needs to be a reasonable depth for filtering purposes, but I don't want to go to deep in case it needs to be cleaned or repairs must be made.
4. do you guys have recommendations for pond pumps? I would like to set the gardens up for success in the long run but aquascape is probably a little out of the budget.
the pond in at its best: I will attempt to make it look like this again but withought the greenness
possible spillway area:
from the main bridge looking onto the bog area: you can see the pond is very overgrown
Firstly, a couple of questions:
1. what flow rate do you think I need? I was thinking around 5000 gph. This is a fairly large pond but they already have a massive waterfall doing at least 5-10 thousand gallons per hour.
2. what pipe size should I use, I was thinking 2 inches for the main pipes and then going down to 3/4 inch for the individual bog manifolds.
3. depth? It needs to be a reasonable depth for filtering purposes, but I don't want to go to deep in case it needs to be cleaned or repairs must be made.
4. do you guys have recommendations for pond pumps? I would like to set the gardens up for success in the long run but aquascape is probably a little out of the budget.
the pond in at its best: I will attempt to make it look like this again but withought the greenness
possible spillway area:
from the main bridge looking onto the bog area: you can see the pond is very overgrown
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