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Thought I'd make a second thread for my second water feature... My house has an approximately 50 gallon water feature that has never run - the tubing coming out of the waterfall has been cut and the liner has been removed (it looks like a large cement flower bed with a little water fall at one end, maybe 2 feet high).
I'd like to get it up and running again - We'd like to make it more like a pondless waterfall than have a little pool, so we were thinking of adding a liner, a water box or two, covering with some gravel to bring it up to within a few inches of the rim level, and putting a submersible pump in either a vault or under a grate. I was wondering if there was any type of skimmer I could add to this setup? The whole thing is above ground cement, so I think it would have to be an inset skimmer, but since the dimensions are about 14 inches by 24 inches by about 48 inches, not sure if anything would fit - also, is there some kind of filtration I could/should add? Undergravel filtration perhaps? Would I just make that out of some PVC pipes and hook it into the pump? Or is there something more efficient?
I'm looking to make this as maintenance free as possible...
I'd like to get it up and running again - We'd like to make it more like a pondless waterfall than have a little pool, so we were thinking of adding a liner, a water box or two, covering with some gravel to bring it up to within a few inches of the rim level, and putting a submersible pump in either a vault or under a grate. I was wondering if there was any type of skimmer I could add to this setup? The whole thing is above ground cement, so I think it would have to be an inset skimmer, but since the dimensions are about 14 inches by 24 inches by about 48 inches, not sure if anything would fit - also, is there some kind of filtration I could/should add? Undergravel filtration perhaps? Would I just make that out of some PVC pipes and hook it into the pump? Or is there something more efficient?
I'm looking to make this as maintenance free as possible...