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Sun, May 16, 10 at 12:09
| I am almost done my plumbing change out which has been challenging to say the list. Previously a plumber friend plumbed the pond and he had so many 90's on my outlet from the pump it was crazy! Unfortunately those were all on the section that had the check valve so I've put that line on my old Sequence pump. In looking on this forum and the koi forum I notice in the US you use PVC piping and if I remember correctly someone said ABS is cheaper there than PVC. Here in Canada a 12 ft length of 3" ABS pipe is $37.00. The same length in PVC is $10.97. PVC fittings smaller than 3" are next to impossible to find. My Sequel pump is $579.00 from Canadian pond stores online. (I got mine from the US for much less) I checked with several pond stores/garden centres trying to find a priming pot for my old pump. No one had ever heard of such a thing! But then most people here use submersible pumps. Oh and the one pond store in Edmonton that had heard of priming pots and external pumps insisted I needed to put rocks in my pond for biological filtering. Aquascape has hit big time in Canada! So not only is it expensive to set up a pond in Canada I have to wait for the weather to cooperate in the spring before I can pond! Our last frost here is typically May 24th so we have a short season. But other than that life is grand! |
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- Posted by goodkarma_ 5b (My Page) on Mon, May 17, 10 at 8:57
| Patty you know that your a ponder when all that stuff adds up in your head and your wallet and you continue anyway. It is in your blood my friend. :) I hear you with the Aquascape ponds. That was big here in Ohio for a long time. Now it seems the ponding bobby in general as a has waned. Perhaps you can create a side business that removes all those rocks from those ponds. lol Disclaimer: The above author makes no claim or statement that denies your constitutional right to put rocks in your pond. Further more, the above author does not claim that putting rocks in your pond makes you a bad person and shall be held blameless if party or parties perceive any statements as such. |
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| Love the disclaimer! I do have rocks hiding the liner of my pond and in my waterfall so yes some rocks are necessary but not in the bottom of my pond! |
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