The first steps for your pond are:1 Determine laws for keeping game fish ( or determine how you going to keep it a secret). 2. Put in permanent drain. 3. Put in permanent water supply.
Coldwater pond?
- Thread starter Chad55
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Don't worry I know what I am doing with my gamefish
. All legal! And it will be mighty difficult to put a drain in the concrete floor of my basement...I have a sump pump that I can run everything into. Also I think I have it figured out....Can I use the water sources from my washer?
Chad
. All legal! And it will be mighty difficult to put a drain in the concrete floor of my basement...I have a sump pump that I can run everything into. Also I think I have it figured out....Can I use the water sources from my washer?Chad
Chad55;630266; said:Don't worry I know what I am doing with my gamefish
Chad
I would put a carbon filter on it, but yea it will be fine. You should build the sump with an automatic drip system before everything is started, a lot less hassle that way.
You could just 'T' or "Y" off of your water source but I like the idea of using the washers water, you can train the fish to blow bubles to entretain themselves 
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(Yeah, I know you meant fresh water
). But it would be entertaining.
Dr Joe
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. (Yeah, I know you meant fresh water
). But it would be entertaining.Dr Joe
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Hahahahahahahaha . I didn't even understand what you were talking about until you said I knew you meant freshwater. So would it make a differance on like water pressure for the washer if I put a Y adapter thing on it? And how hard is it to put a drip system in?
Chad
. I didn't even understand what you were talking about until you said I knew you meant freshwater. So would it make a differance on like water pressure for the washer if I put a Y adapter thing on it? And how hard is it to put a drip system in?Chad
I am certainly no expert in this, but adding an additional diversion will decrease water pressure. And i imagine it is harder than it looks on paper, but nothing a retired plumber looking to make some 'cash in hand' can’t deal with hehe
Correct...But spring for the brass / bronze adapter.
As far as pressure drop...no.
As far as water volume drop...I have 600gph take away 1/2gph for drip system...Hhmmm...No
Drip systems usually are not dechlorinated, tho it wouldn't be hard to do, just another step in the system.
Here's the latest drip system up on the forum: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49289
There are several others on here too;
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48940&highlight=drip
Dr Joe
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As far as pressure drop...no.
As far as water volume drop...I have 600gph take away 1/2gph for drip system...Hhmmm...No
Drip systems usually are not dechlorinated, tho it wouldn't be hard to do, just another step in the system.
Here's the latest drip system up on the forum: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49289
There are several others on here too;
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48940&highlight=drip
Dr Joe
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i have a 1500 gallon pond in my greenhouse. there is a dehumidifier running 14 hours a day. cool thing about is it that it dumps all the water collected from the air back into the pond.
