Pond pumps in a garden pond provide a vital live support function for koi and goldfish
Pond, pump water gardening related keywords in this chapter are shown in abbreviated point format below ..... care for your garden ponds
pump, pond, retailer, cost, guarantee, electricity, water, pipe, diameter, installation, fountain, purchase, cables, equipment, connectors.
Summary:
In this short chapter I have tried to give you a feel for what are important topics to consider in looking at your pond project. The best example of this is the selling of a pump that was designed to work in a clean water environment and indoors.
The only reason retailers sell such items I presume is that these pumps are cheaper than pond pumps and the retailer assumes the customer wants a cheap item.
In pond keeping cheap items have a habit of becoming expensive items very quickly because they will not work and will need replacement shortly after installation in a pond.
On the other hand good pond items need not be expensive at all as we will cover later in the book.
Quite simply when it comes to electricity my advice is spend a bit more money and employ an electrician to do all the electrical work for you.
When you buy piping for the joining together of various pond items always buy pipe with the maximum internal diameter you can do not use less than 25 mm internal diameter normally.
Use larger diameter pipe, not less than 25 mm and make the pipe short to get the most out of your pump.
This approach will also lower the cost of the pump to achieve your required flow rate.
Be suspicious of equipment with poor information on the box or label.
In particular look for and check the guarantee and also the retailer's attitude to the guarantee which is often more important than the guarantee itself.
