Wise advisors,
Moving to a new house and looking to set up a little system running along the driveway exterior wall, maybe 5 or 7m long. At most 1m deep at the deep end, maybe 1m wide. Long & skinny rectangle will make it nice and easy to use a plastic liner/barrier.
Electricity is ridiculously costly around here, so what's the most electricity efficient water-mover pump (not filter, just pump) I might find/get?
Needs to fit into a tube/hose/bit of plumbing, so no Koralias (though I do love & use them). If it could lift a bit that'd be OK, but not necessary as most will be at water-level incl. filtration. Some other sort of powerhead or in-water could also work, though an external that I can wall mount or build into a box would be best.
For size, this will be over-planted & understocked, so something that can run maybe a 100 or 150gallon regular aquarium would probably do it.
Wall is south-facing in heavy sunshine, which will be way too much, so planning on heaps of overwater plants- lotus, lily, papyrus etc.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
Moving to a new house and looking to set up a little system running along the driveway exterior wall, maybe 5 or 7m long. At most 1m deep at the deep end, maybe 1m wide. Long & skinny rectangle will make it nice and easy to use a plastic liner/barrier.
Electricity is ridiculously costly around here, so what's the most electricity efficient water-mover pump (not filter, just pump) I might find/get?
Needs to fit into a tube/hose/bit of plumbing, so no Koralias (though I do love & use them). If it could lift a bit that'd be OK, but not necessary as most will be at water-level incl. filtration. Some other sort of powerhead or in-water could also work, though an external that I can wall mount or build into a box would be best.
For size, this will be over-planted & understocked, so something that can run maybe a 100 or 150gallon regular aquarium would probably do it.
Wall is south-facing in heavy sunshine, which will be way too much, so planning on heaps of overwater plants- lotus, lily, papyrus etc.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
