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LOW-MAINTENANCE Pond It's easy enough to build a pond. Throw a liner into a hole then fill with water. Put in a pump and re-circulate the water over a small waterfall. They show you how to do it all the time on those Home and Garden Television Shows. What the shows don't do is go back to that pond a month later and see what kind of trouble the pond-owner is having. They don't show people pulling leaves and gunk out of the pump to get it to flow again. They don't show the pond-owner cursing while struggling to clean nasty filter pads. They don't show the fish dying or how the water turns green and cloudy. There's a simple answer to low-maintenance -- if you don't want any kind of fish life in it or if you don't care that it's turning into a cess pool. You can choose not to put a filter on it at all. If you don't install a filter on the pond the filter will never need cleaning. -- But the pond will never be clean. The pump, as it takes in water, will clog up with debris. You don't ever need to unclog a pump if you don't install one on your pond. -- But then you have a swamp instead of a pond that breeds mosquitoes and bad bacteria. The trick of low-maintenance pond construction is to think external. Use an external filter to keep your pond clean and healthy, an external pump to keep it flowing and an external UV Light to keep it clear. Just the fact that you've located the equipment where you can easily get to it is half the battle. |
Low-Maintenance Pond Components: The Bead Filter
The External Pump
The Bottom Drain
The Skimmer
The Eduction Jet
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