Solar Pond Pumps?

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BlindSight

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Wanting to get a small pond going outside probably in the 100-300 gallon range. Plan on having lots of plants but would like to keep a couple fish in there to keep the mosquitos and bugs down. I ahve read lots of articles about people running a small pond with 1 or 2 fish filterless and currentless but I would think it would be good to have some kind of water movement and would like to build a little waterfall anyways. I don't want to have to run power out to it so was looking into going solar for it. I know the technology still has a long way to go but does anyone have experience with any of them? I was looking at the following ones that claim around 200gph flow:
http://cgi.ebay.com/8-Watt-Solar-Fo...399?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c119b248f

http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered...KW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1299635467&sr=8-13
 
BlindSight;4950197; said:
Wanting to get a small pond going outside probably in the 100-300 gallon range. Plan on having lots of plants but would like to keep a couple fish in there to keep the mosquitos and bugs down. I ahve read lots of articles about people running a small pond with 1 or 2 fish filterless and currentless but I would think it would be good to have some kind of water movement and would like to build a little waterfall anyways. I don't want to have to run power out to it so was looking into going solar for it. I know the technology still has a long way to go but does anyone have experience with any of them? I was looking at the following ones that claim around 200gph flow:
http://cgi.ebay.com/8-Watt-Solar-Fo...399?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c119b248f

http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered...KW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1299635467&sr=8-13

great idea. I wouldn't let the pond go without filtration... Water would get stagnant...

The secodn link seems like the most logical choice to me at a quick glance... Control Box Timer seems like a good option to have...
 
yeah I am thinking about having the water pump into a hidden box of biomax or something and have it overflow down a waterfall back into the pond.
 
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