New 1350 pond! Filtration Ideas

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Jack Dempsey
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Hey all,
My grandmother has a pond she is letting me use to put my channel catfish in. It is 14 feet long, 6 feet wide(at widest) and 2 feet deep(at deepest), it's shaped like a boomerang. Any ideas for a filter? The only requirements I have are,
1: needs to not use do much energy
2: simple
3: somewhat discreet. She loves her garden and I don't think she's like a filter ganging around her pond. Any ideas on how to hide it?


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Do some research on pond plants. With the right plants I'm not saying you wont need a filter but it will make the filters work easier. The plants will provide oxygen needed to the fish and remove things needed to filter out. Also if you grandmother likes her garden find a nice flowering plant and tell her to think of it as an aquatic extension of her garden. You can probably get by with a smaller filter or less obtrusive looking with the right plants.

Good luck.
 
I refit an old system last year- I'm no expert, but it seems you've got a lot more flexibility with pump performance & efficiency at lower cost if you keep with an external pump. If you're already going to be plumbing the canister then there's no reason to go with the submerged pump.
And to hid it, 1/2 bury the pump room in the ground a good distance away behind the rose bushes.
Notes- if you can, do all plumbing in the largest diameter pipe you can get/afford. It reduces flow resistances over longer distances (improved efficiency) and increases total system volume.
And water plants, of course!
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if you can get your hands on a wine barrel those are cool. they make replicas too that arent that expensive. hide your filter inside of that. you can also place a potted plant with creeping charlies on top wich gma would like. ebay has some great inexpensive pond pumps. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Odyssea-100...885?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46022f0dd5
this pump would cost anywhere between 7-14$ a month to run 24 hours a day depending on what electric tier your bill is on. hope that helps.
 
I used a 5G bucket with a lid and a Quiet One 4000 for my pond thats about 1200G and its worked flawlessly. Drill a hole in the top of the lid put in a 1" bulkhead fitting, attached the intake of the pump to it. for the bucket itself I drilled as many holes as I could into it used a piece of the stiff nylon plastic mesh from the Walmart craft department and rolled enough polyester quilt batting around it also from the same department @ Walmart so that it fit snug in the bucket and then attached a piece of slate to the bottom of the bucket to weigh it down and then plugged it in. The Quiet One 4000 is about 1000gph but uses only 50 Watts. I also used black Krylon fusion paint to paint the bucket black to hide it a bit better in the pond. IMAG1857.jpg The bucket nylon mesh and fiber fill cost less than $30 and the pump is about $100-$120. The pump/filter is also feeding my waterfall.

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